Arabica

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Arabica is the name of a variety of coffee tree from the species Coffea arabica, a coffee tree native to Ethiopia which may have been originally cultivated in the Arabian peninsula. The term arabica is also used as a generic term for all coffee from the similarly named parent species.

Until the early 20th century, arabica was the only type of coffee commercially available. Today, this bean is associated with finer coffees, making up the overwhelming majority of the specialty coffee industry. Coffee brewed from arabica beans is often considered less bitter than coffee brewed from robusta beans. While quality of the beans varies widely, most highly regarded lots of coffee are arabica.

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While exact amounts may vary from crop-to-crop, the caffeine content of an arabica bean is around 1.3 percent the bean's weight, substantially less than beans from the robusta species^[1].Hi

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