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Peaberry

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What is a Peaberry?

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Peaberry Coffee Explained

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Peaberry Introduction

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Peaberry Coffee - A Special Kind of Bean

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Peaberry vs. Traditional Coffee Beans

Peaberry, known in Spanish as caracolillo, is a type of coffee bean. Normally the fruit ("cherry") of the coffee plant contains two seeds ("beans") that develop with flattened facing sides, but sometimes only one of the two seeds is fertilized, and the single seed develops with nothing to flatten it. This oval bean is known as peaberry. Typically around 5% of all coffee beans harvested have experienced this small mutation.
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