Why do we roast coffee?
Chemistry For Your Life
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Coffee Seeds - What's the Difference?
Coffee beans contain a variety of different molecules that may be present in it. Some have different amounts of caffine, and some maybe have slightly different flavors depending on the region. As these coffee seeds are being heated up, all the different kinds of molecules, which there's tons, including water, sugar, protein, proteins. And we get all kinds of things start happening, like polmers can start being formed with the myard reaction,. The tastiest reaction is where sugar and proteins are turning into creating this olimer.
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