| abstract |
Food products having portions of a dried deseeded coffee cherry are described, as well as components thereof and methods of forming. The food product may include one or more portions of a dried deseeded coffee cherry and a chocolate composition. In total, world coffee production in 2011 used about 7.9 million tons of coffee beans. To obtain the coffee beverage that is widely consumed throughout the world, coffee beans must be removed from coffee cherries and processed. There are two types of isolation processes ("coffee processing") that are commonly used: dry processing and wet processing. The coffee beans are separated from the material covering the beans (for example, the outer skin, pulp, parchment, and silverskin) using a de-hulling machine. |