{"id":207,"date":"2013-04-24T15:04:12","date_gmt":"2013-04-24T14:04:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/international-pest-control.com\/wordpress\/?p=207"},"modified":"2015-02-01T19:17:21","modified_gmt":"2015-02-01T19:17:21","slug":"quality-control-for-stored-coffee-and-cocoa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/international-pest-control.com\/wordpress\/quality-control-for-stored-coffee-and-cocoa\/","title":{"rendered":"Quality control for stored coffee and cocoa"},"content":{"rendered":"

Many commodities are harvested, stored and sold as seed but coffee and cocoa are unique in the nature of on-farm primary processing and the condition of the commodities produced. The sequential steps in on-farm processing for coffee (wet or dry processing) and cocoa (fermentation and drying) are essential for the manufacture of high quality coffee beverage and chocolate.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Only clean and disease free ripe cherry should be harvested for processing. Mould growth and mycotoxin contamination can start as early as the unripe green coffee berry stage (Picture Dr Terry Mabbett)<\/p><\/div>\n

Fresh mucilage covered cocoa beans undergo heat-generating microbial fermentation followed by natural or artificial drying. Most Arabica and some Robusta coffee cherry is wet processed (pulped, washed, dried and hulled) while the vast majority of Robusta coffee, together with most Brazilian Arabica coffee, is dry processed (dried and hulled). The finished on-farm products are cured cocoa beans and green coffee.<\/p>\n

Primary processing of cocoa and coffee activates and accentuates the taste and aroma compounds which underpin market value and define consumer acceptance. The drying dimensions and storage conditions encountered along the coffee and cocoa processes are essential to the long term integrity of these commodities. Failure to achieve and maintain bean moisture contents below established critical levels, risks a rapid loss of integrity, quality and commercial value. Damage and deterioration is due to feeding by insect pests and the metabolic activities of microbes, in particular a small and select but highly damaging group of mycotoxin producing fungal moulds….<\/p>\n

This is a preview of a full article published in International Pest Control – March\/April 2013 issue.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Author: <\/strong>Dr Terry Mabbett<\/a>
\nDirector, Dr Terry Mabbett Consultants<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Many commodities are harvested, stored and sold as seed but coffee and cocoa are unique in the nature of on-farm primary processing and the condition of the commodities produced. The sequential steps in on-farm processing for coffee (wet or dry processing) and cocoa (fermentation and drying) are essential for the manufacture of high quality coffee […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,11],"tags":[],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/international-pest-control.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/international-pest-control.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/international-pest-control.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/international-pest-control.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/international-pest-control.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=207"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/international-pest-control.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2186,"href":"https:\/\/international-pest-control.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207\/revisions\/2186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/international-pest-control.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/international-pest-control.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/international-pest-control.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}