Is Safe Coffee Organic Coffee?

With new technologies and the availability of chemicals and pesticides rising, so is the concern of chemicals in coffee. The use of pesticides has made some people apprehensive about whether harmful chemical residues may reach our system when we drink coffee.

However, coffee drinkers can relax. Coffee, unlike most fruit, is not consumed raw; whereas lettuce, apples or other fruits are consumed raw. The coffee bean is the seed of the fruit and it lays under the flesh of the fruit. The flesh, which is what would come in contact with chemicals, is discarded.

On its journey, the coffee bean, or seed is soaked, fermented and subject to a thorough drying process. It is later roasted. The roasting process cooks the seed at temperatures exceeding 4000 degrees Fahrenheit After the seed is roasted, it is broken apart and soaked in near boiling water. After this rigorous process, it hardly seems possible for any pesticide or fungicide residue to remain on the coffee seed.

The use of chemicals and pesticides has also made some people worry about the effects of the chemicals, pesticides ad fungicides on our environment. With farmers across the World using pesticides, herbicides, fungicides and chemical fertilizers in an effort to produce bigger and better crop; the people whose concerns are environmental essentially only have three options.

The first option is you could buy "traditional coffee". This coffee is grown as it was before inception; before agricultural chemicals were invented. Some of these include Yemen coffee, almost all of Ethiopian coffees and most Sumatra coffees. These are grown in a state of innocence and are among the worlds finest.

Another option is you could buy certified organic coffee. These coffees are monitored by agencies to certify that the growing conditions and processes have been found to be free of pesticides, herbicides, fungicides, chemical fertilizers and other potentially harmful chemicals. Certified organic coffee, theoretical, has no environmental effects.

The third and final option is for you to buy coffee labeled "sustainable". "Sustainable" coffee means that in the view of the importer or roaster, the designated farmer has done everything within reason to avoid the use of agricultural chemicals. However, "sustainable" coffee is not guaranteed to not use pesticides, fungicides, chemical fertilizers or other potentially harmful chemicals on their coffee.

Coffee drinkers relax and enjoy your coffee. Your coffee is not chemically hazardous, whether it is organic or not. Coffee is safe to drink!