Coffee is good for you and organic coffee is better. Organic coffee from Colombia has specific flavors depending on what part of the Eje Cafetero it comes from. But, what if you like other unique flavors? And what if you like the efficiency of single serve coffee? Can you get the right combination such as organic hazelnut coffee K cups?
The Internet Comes to the Rescue
If your local grocery store does not have the combination you like, such as organic hazelnut coffee K cups, search on the internet. Here is what we found.
Our search resulted in two ads from Amazon for EKOCUPS artisan organic hazelnut flavored coffee, followed by White coffee organic single serve coffee, hazelnut. Then there are Dean’s Beans organic coffee, Island hazelnut organic Kona blend coffee pods hazelnut flavor, Organic Coffee Company, Organic, flavored, decaf coffees from Green Mountain and Green Mountain coffee hazelnut light roast K-Cups coffee. And that is just the first page of a Google search. Each entry has various coffees, including organic hazelnut coffee K cups.
Hazelnuts
People have been growing hazelnuts for food for about 9,000 starting in Stone Age Scotland. In those days nuts were a replacement when meat was scarce. Today hazelnuts are grown all over the world. You can buy hazelnut syrup to put in your coffee or you can buy unsalted and shelled hazelnuts. If you want to do it right you can add two parts coffee beans and one part shelled hazelnuts to your coffee grinder and create ground hazelnut coffee. The best route next is to use a French press.
Aside from the flavor are hazelnuts good for you? Hazelnuts contain manganese, copper, magnesium, phosphorus, iron, potassium, zinc, folate, thiamin, niacin, calcium and vitamins C, E, B-6 and K. They are rich in protein and monounsaturated fatty acids. The ingredients in Hazelnuts help your heart, your blood pressure and are useful in preventing diabetes. Like coffee, hazelnuts contain antioxidants. The antioxidants in hazelnuts, like in coffee, help prevent cancer.
K Cups
As single serve coffee becomes more popular there are more and more variations on the theme. Recently we have written about the following:
Folks love K cups but remember that if you are drinking organic coffee you don’t want to negate that good act by adding plastic to the world’s landfills. Does organic coffee in a k cup make sense?
Waste 360 reports that it is possible to recycle K cups into cement.
A B.C. program that recycles Keurig coffee K-Cups into cement has been so successful that it may expand into Alberta.
The Lafarge cement plant in Kamloops, B.C. turned about 1.4 million K-Cups into cement last year, after teaming up with Van Houtte Coffee Services, which collects the used pods for recycling.
Now Keurig just needs to give every customer a pre-paid envelope with each set of cups so that customers can mail their used K Cups to Alberta!
Good luck in finding organic hazelnut coffee k cups and good luck finding biodegradable k cups!