- Introduction
Choosing pure coffee to drink is very difficult and complicated when there are more and more types of fake coffee mixed with many impurities that taste similar to 90% of pure coffee, making it difficult for us to distinguish the coffee. Which coffee is pure coffee or even fake coffee? The article below by Lam Chan Au Tea & Coffee Co., Ltd. will help you equip yourself with more knowledge to distinguish between fake coffee and real pure coffee. - Distinguish coffee powder
- The weight of pure coffee powder is heavier than cornstarch and soybean powder:
- Pure coffee beans have a different characteristic from other types of beans: when roasted up to a certain temperature, they will expand and increase in volume by 1.5-2 times and weight by 20-30%. So real coffee powder always has a density lower than the density of other types of powder. Based on this characteristic, you can distinguish right from the beginning, even without having to open the packaging. If you have the conditions to compare, you should try holding two 500g bags in your hand. For the bag without more coffee, it will be fuller, larger, and heavier, so we can feel that the bag of pure coffee will be lighter. than
+ Porosity of coffee:
- Visually, pure coffee powder is very light, porous, loose and loose. The flour of other cereal grains is often stickier and less loose. If you have 1 bag of pure coffee and a bag of fake coffee, open the 2 bags, take 2 cups of water, scoop 2 tablespoons of powder from the 2 bags and pour it onto the water. Pure coffee powder is light and porous, has a low density, so it tends to float to the top, while the powder of other grains has a higher density, so it sinks faster.
+ Humidity of coffee:
- Real coffee powder has little hydration, the moisture level of real coffee beans after roasting is quite low. Other cereal flours often retain water and have higher moisture content. Furthermore, because beans and corn do not have a scent, when manufacturers mix these beans into coffee beans, they will definitely do an additional step, which is spraying chemicals and synthetic coffee flavoring. , artificially added before grinding into powder. Therefore, mixed, impure coffee powder seems wet, even clumpy when soaked in a lot of caramel to create color, completely different from real coffee powder, which is very dry and loose.
+ Smell of coffee powder:
- If you are knowledgeable about coffee and like to drink coffee, it is not difficult for you to recognize the very pleasant and characteristic aroma of real coffee powder. With the current amount of low-quality fake coffee, people use a chemical flavoring spray on beans and corn to create a scent, and if you are someone who doesn’t like coffee, you will easily be confused. with real coffees. If you are observant, you can notice that the scent of corn blends with chemical flavorings to create a heavy scent, not as gentle as real coffee.
3. Distinguishing coffee when brewing
+ Color of coffee water:
- Coffee is a rather strange bean. No matter how much time you roast at high temperature, and it may burn almost like charcoal, when ground and brewed, the coffee water will not be black or cloudy like we often see in coffee. some coffee shops. A cup of pure coffee will always be brown to dark brown. When exposed to sunlight, it will be light brown
+Consistency of coffee water:
- When brewing, a cup of pure coffee water has almost no consistency. On the contrary, cornstarch and bean flour contain sticky ingredients like starch, so when mixed with coffee, the filler will be viscous and flexible, making it sticky. Pay close attention and you will see that the coffee cup contains cornstarch, then the coffee cup will have coffee stuck on it.
+ Taste of coffee:
- Coffee, when roasted for enough time and reaching the appropriate temperature, will give us a cup of coffee with a bitter taste mixed with a gentle sour taste, very delicate due to the element of acid components hidden behind the taste. bitterness in coffee beans. In fact, the best coffee varieties in the world belong to the Arabica coffee line, which has top enjoyment and commercial value and has a very seductive sour aftertaste that blends delicately with natural bitterness.
- However, due to incorrect perception, many Vietnamese people do not think that coffee tastes sour. To meet customer needs, some companies have removed the inherent sour taste of coffee with some chemical flavorings that create a bitter taste that takes away the sour taste of coffee.
Lam Chan Au Coffee is a famous coffee brand in Vietnam, a production facility and specializes in distributing all kinds of clean coffee, 100% pure coffee, creating the best quality and perfect products for your hands. consumers. We provide roasted and ground coffee at the most reasonable price and quality, meeting customers’ requirements and protecting their own interests. If you need more advice about types of coffee, please contact Lam Chan Au Coffee for free advice.
LAM CHAN AU TEA & COFFEE COMPANY LIMITED
Company address: 943 Tay Hue 1, My Hoa, Long Xuyen City, An Giang
Branch 1: No. 40, Hai Ba Trung, Long Xuyen City, An Giang
Branch 2: No. 741 Ha Hoang Ho – Dong Xuyen, Long Xuyen City, An Giang
Tel : 0383005996
