Coffee Beverage
A special issue of Beverages (ISSN 2306-5710).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 June 2016) | Viewed by 18826
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Coffee is a product of mass consumption, with a worldwide consumption estimated at 2.5 million cups per day. Coffee is one of the most traded agricultural commodities in the world and the total value of the coffee industry was estimated at around US$173.4 billion in 2012, (source ICO). In sharp contrast with their economic importance coffee beverage has not been deeply studied as other important beverage.
The objective of this Special Issue is to invite front-line researchers and authors to submit original researches and review articles bringing together the state of the art on factors influencing coffee beverage attributes.
We see major potential, for example, in the following topics: Coffee beans quality and environment conditions, orchard management for producing high quality, cultivars characteristics, and bean composition. In particular, we are open to innovative research about sensorial analysis, volatile compounds, post-harvest, roasting, and storage technologies.
Dr. Benoît Bertrand
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- coffee beverage
- coffee bean
- agronomic factors
- post-harvest
- sensory analyses
- volatiles compounds and aroma precursors
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