Coffee beans begin as pale seeds inside red fruit

Glossy red coffee cherries with one open fruit showing two pale green seeds

Coffee beans begin as pale seeds inside red fruit

An arabica coffee plant grows glossy fruits that often ripen red. Each fruit usually holds two green seeds, and those seeds become the familiar brown coffee beans only after roasting.

The brown bean starts out tucked inside a shiny red berry with a partner.

Source · Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew ↗

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Coffee beans begin as pale seeds inside red fruit