ABSTRACT

Coffee, one of the most widely consumed beverages in the world, as an important global commodity and constitutes a significant fraction of the export economy of many countries. Coffee is a mixture of thousands of different compounds, such as carbohydrates, lipids, vitamins, alkaloids, nitrogenous molecules, and phenolic compounds (Muriel and Arauz 2010). Coffee is a brewed drink prepared from roasted coffee beans, the seeds of the coffee plants Coffea arabica and Coffea canephora. ¢ose derived from C. arabica are known as Arabica coffee, which accounts for 75-80% of the world’s production, whereas C. canephora are known as Robusta coffee, which accounts for about 20% and each differs from the other in terms of taste and flavor.