How pure is your coffee?
Research has today revealed that some less scrupulous coffee suppliers have been 'cutting' their coffee with fillers including soil. But you're safe with Cafeology. We have personal relationships with our farmers in Colombia, Costa Rica, El Salvador and Guatemala and make regular trips to see them.
We all remember the UK horse meat scandal of 2013 - it's arguably what led to a rise in consumer awareness of the provenance of our food and drink.
So we were troubled to hear Radio 2’s similar discussion topic this morning. A rise in drought and plant diseases has been the catalyst for some coffee farmers bulking out their coffee with added extras: think soil, wood, brown sugar and coffee bean husks. Although not harmful, once the coffee has been roasted and ground, the consumer is powerless to tell the difference.
At Cafeology it’s a different story. We’re proud to have personal relationships with all our growers thanks to our regular producer trips to their farms to ensure quality and standards are being upheld. This, alongside visits and certifications from other bodies such as the Fairtrade Foundation and Soil Association, reiterates the quality and traceability of our coffee.
We ship the whole, dried beans to our roaster in the UK, where they are then roasted to our own special recipe, with no nasty surprises!
And the coffee masquerading as soil? The University of Londrina in Brazil has developed a test to identify impurities in coffee with 95% accuracy.
Need we say you’re better off with us?!
