True - the beans that we are so accustomed to seeing in coffee shops and chains today is the dried seed of a fruit known as coffee cherries or coffee berries, and they quite literally look like cherries. Turning it into the product that ends up in our brewers involves removing the the pulp and drying the seeds contained within; which are then roasted, ground, and brewed. The most common drying method is called the dry process, but there are some specialty methods of processing that involve fermentation, sun-drying, and passing through the digestive tract of the Asian Palm Civet; each leading to a different flavor to the end product. Chocolate also comes from a bean that is the seed of a fruit, the cacao bean which comes from the fruit of the Cacao Tree.
Now, if you want to get technical about it; there are several definitions as to what a bean is. We have been working off the first two for the above fact checking:
- Beans such as green beans, French beans, or broad beans are the seeds of a climbing plant or the long thin cases which contain those seeds.
- Beans such as soya beans and kidney beans are the dried seeds of a bean plant.
If you were to walk down the street and ask a sampling of people to name or define a bean, the response would most likely fall in those two definitions. The third definition, however, pertains to this conversation:
- Beans such as coffee beans or cocoa beans are the seeds of plants that are used to produce coffee, cocoa, and chocolate
So technically, yes, Coffee beans are a type of bean and perhaps a “False, True” verdict would have been warranted; but I think it’s all True in the spirit of the claim.
original claim: @OMGFacts; source: wikipedia, Google Dictionary
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