Do Coffee Beans Start Brown? A Kew Coffee Quiz

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Do Coffee Beans Start Brown? A Kew Coffee Quiz

Lina opens a page from Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, at the school café. Her friend Noah looks at the picture of a coffee plant.

Noah: Do coffee beans grow brown on the tree?

Lina: No, they do not. Kew explains that the drink comes from roasted seeds. The seeds are green before roasting, and they become brown after roasting.

Noah: Does a coffee bean really count as a seed?

Lina: Yes, it does. The seed grows inside the fruit of the coffee plant. People commonly call these seeds coffee beans.

Noah: Does each fruit have only one seed?

Lina: It normally has two. Kew says that the fruit normally produces two green seeds. The fruit holds them before people remove and roast them.

Noah: Does the fruit always look red?

Lina: