12 Mar 2013

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Did you know that it takes around 70 roasted coffee beans to make one cup of coffee? These 70 beans produce around 8 grams of coffee. To make this single cup, around 40 grams of coffee cherries need to be picked on the plantation. Several steps are required before the coffee beans can be roasted.

The two coffee beans inside the coffee cherry, in fact the seeds, form the core (see illustration). During processing the pulp is completely removed, leaving the parchment, which is removed shortly before export. This process is known as hulling. Finally, all that remains is the silverskin around the bean.

During roasting the coffee bean loses moisture, which reduces its weight by around 18% – 22%. By the time processing is complete, the weight has been reduced from the initial 40 g to 8 g.

12 Mar 2013

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Coffee is good for you…. No less than two recent medical studies suggest that drinking coffee is much healthier than popular belief would have it. One of these was a long-term study into the effects of caffeine on the central nervous system involving more than 1400 people in Sweden and Finland.

People who drink three to five cups per day may have a much lower risk of developing Alzheimer’s or dementia than people who drink little or no coffee. Another study, carried out in Boston and published in the scientific journal Circulation, revealed that the risk of a stroke was reduced by 20% in people who drink more than four cups per day.

06 Feb 2013

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Having undertaken a European-wide search for a coffee machine partner, we at Coffitas have chosen to align ourselves with Fracino Coffee Machines. Our strategy has always been to deal directly with machine manufacturers rather than distributor agencies so that we can see and inspect the product at the assembly stage. This means we can guarantee the quality of workmanship and materials used to build the machines we provide to our customers.

Not only is Fracino an award winning machine manufacturer in the UK – the company is a brand leader with a flair for innovation and exports its coffee machines to five different continents worldwide.

By our association with Fracino we are able to provide our customers with a comprehensive range of guaranteed world class engineered products which cover the full spectrum of customer needs – traditional and bean to cup espresso coffee machines, water boilers, grinders, knock out drawers, roasters, machine attachments, water treatment kits, cleaning materials and a full range of barista accessories.

Apart from the excellent quality of Fracino engineered products and the fact that the company is a one-stop shop for a comprehensive range of machines and accessories, our final reason for working with Fracino is that they enable us to offer you the customer machines at realistic, competitive prices when compared on a like for like basis with other brand machines.