The coffee cherries were also probable eaten raw because the pulp is sweet and has the additional gain of caffeine.

Coffee - From Meals to Drink. See Here The heritage of the discovery of coffee is rife with speculation. Its transition from food to beverage is equally open to interpretation and historical variances. Blog URL Early European explorers and botanists imagined that Ethiopians chewed raw coffee beans for energy just after acquiring their grazing goats consuming the coffee berry. They would pound the ripened coffee berries and mix them with animal weight so they became pasty round pellets. The

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