Organic Coffee from Latin America
If you are interested in great organic coffee you want organic coffee from Latin America. Latin America is far and away the largest producer of Arabica coffee in the world. According to the International Coffee Organization here are coffee production numbers for a few years ago for Latin America.
| Coffee Production in 1000 Pound Increments for Years Listed by Latin American Nation | ||||||
| Country | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 |
| Bolivia | 135 | 142 | 130 | 143 | 115 | 100 |
| Brazil | 45992 | 39470 | 48095 | 43484 | 50826 | 49152 |
| Colombia | 8664 | 8098 | 8523 | 7653 | 10371 | 10900 |
| Costa Rica | 1287 | 1304 | 1392 | 1462 | 1618 | 1396 |
| Ecuador | 771 | 813 | 854 | 825 | 828 | 676 |
| El Salvador | 1410 | 1065 | 1814 | 1152 | 1360 | 844 |
| Guatemala | 3785 | 3835 | 3950 | 3840 | 3703 | 3130 |
| Honduras | 3450 | 3603 | 4331 | 5903 | 4537 | 4200 |
| Mexico | 4651 | 4109 | 4001 | 4563 | 4327 | 3900 |
| Nicaragua | 1445 | 1871 | 1634 | 2210 | 1872 | 1500 |
| Panama | 149 | 138 | 114 | 106 | 112 | 100 |
| Paraguay | 21 | 20 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 30 |
| Philippines | 587 | 730 | 189 | 180 | 200 | 500 |
| Peru | 3872 | 3286 | 4069 | 5373 | 4450 | 4200 |
| Venezuela | 932 | 1214 | 1202 | 902 | 953 | 900 |
And not only are Brazil, Colombia, Mexico, Guatemala, Peru and Honduras producers of large amounts of coffee they are also first line producers of organic coffee. The numbers have changed slightly over the years but the ranking has not. USDA organic coffee in Latin American is typically certified by agencies such as Bio Latina on contract for the USDA.
Organic certification verifies that your farm or handling facility located anywhere in the world complies with the USDA organic regulations and allows you to sell, label, and represent your products as organic. These regulations describe the specific standards required for you to use the word “organic” or the USDA organic seal on food, feed, or fiber products.
Organic Coffee from Latin America
Coffee grows best in the regions that Latin Americans refer to as the land of eternal spring. This term refers to the mountainous spine of the Americas that, within Latin America, extends from Northern Mexico down to Tierra del Fuego. In the tropical regions of Latin America between three and six thousand feet elevation coffee grows well on soil enriched over the eons by volcanic eruptions. Some of these eruptions were even very recent. For example, 17,000 foot high Nevada del Ruiz on the outskirts of Manizales in the Colombian cafetero erupted in 1985. It was the worst volcanic disaster in recorded Latin American history resulting in 25,000 deaths.
Volcanos and Organic Coffee from Latin America
Continuing eruption of ash from still-active Nevada del Ruiz and other active volcanoes serves to enrich the soil of the Colombian cafetero and provide nutrients for some of the best organic coffee from Latin America.
Not all production of organic coffee from Latin America comes from the big producers. Countries like Panama and Costa Rica provide their fair share and what they lack in quantity they make up for in quality. Coffee production in Costa Rica goes back to 1779!
Coffee production in the country began in 1779 in the Meseta Central which had ideal soil and climate conditions for coffee plantations. Coffea arabica first imported to Europe through Arabia, whence it takes its name, was introduced to the country directly from Ethiopia. In the nineteenth century, the Costa Rican government strongly encouraged coffee production, and the industry fundamentally transformed a colonial regime and village economy built on direct extraction by city-based elite towards organized production for export on a larger scale.
If you are looking for good organic coffee from Latin America contact us at Buy Organic Coffee today.
Ground Coffee
Many coffee drinkers purchase regular ground coffee because it is cheaper and quicker to prepare than organic whole bean coffee. Our belief is that buying ground coffee is a mistake! There are ways to store coffee and preserve freshness if you use ground coffee but you still lose flavor, health benefits and aroma compared to storing whole beans, especially if you roast your own.
Ground Coffee
Ways to Store Ground Coffee
- Keep stored ground coffee away from heat. This typically means not using the cupboards directly above your stove or refrigerator. Store ground coffee away from heat and sunlight.
- Ground coffee is typically packed without air in a sealed bag. After you open the bag store the ground coffee in an airtight container.
- Buy ground coffee in small quantities. Then prepare and drink ground coffee as soon as possible because exposure to air uses up the antioxidants that provide much of the aroma and flavor of coffee as well as the many good health effects of drinking coffee.
- The problem with ground coffee is that it starts to lose its freshness as soon as it is exposed to the air. Roasted beans typically hold one to freshness for six months if properly stored and green coffee beans are good for two years.
Roasted Coffee Beans
Whole Bean Instead of Ground Coffee
You can get the same amount of flavor and more health benefits from freshly ground coffee beans. It takes must a minute to grind your roasted coffee. And you can easily use less coffee and get the same or better flavor than you would if you use old stale ground coffee. The health benefits of coffee derive from the antioxidants and these antioxidants stay fresh and active longer when the coffee bean is intact.
Green Coffee Beans
Green Coffee Beans
The best way to ship and store coffee is as green coffee beans. When correctly dried, stored and shipped, green coffee beans remain fresh and retain their antioxidant levels for up to two years. This beats the heck out of watching your ground coffee lose its freshness as soon as you open the bag! Wholesale coffee is sold as green coffee beans. When coffee is picked, the fruit, or cherry, is red. The oldest means of processing coffee, called dry processing, involves cleaning the cherry and then sun drying. Sun drying reduces moisture content and increases the shelf life of green coffee beans. Uniform drying occurs as workers rake the drying cherries. During wet weather cherries are dried in large chambers with dry forced air. The air drying takes about four weeks. The bulk of the beneficial health aspects of coffee are from antioxidants in green coffee beans and created by the heat of roasting. Once coffee is roasted the shelf life for flavor, aroma, and antioxidants is reduced from two years to six months, if roasted coffee is properly stored. Once roasted coffee beans are ground, the flavor, aroma, and antioxidant shelf life is reduced to days and even hours. Our strong suggestion is to buy your healthy organic coffee in whole beans and grind your own. If you like to roast your own coffee, buy organic green coffee beans!
Healthiest Organic Coffees
A reader, Rachel, recently asked this question,
There are so many coffees – how do I know which is healthiest and who to buy from?
Rachel, thanks for your question. First of all the healthiest coffees are organically grown, processed, stored and transported. Let’s look at what constitutes organic coffee and why it is healthy for you.
Organic Coffee
Healthy organic coffee is free of the up to 133 impurities often found in regular coffee. A study by the Australian Food Standards Authority revealed that as many as 133 contaminants may be in a cup of commercially available coffee. These contaminants include metals such as aluminum and zinc, pesticide residues, ochratoxin A, acrylamide, furan, and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons. Some polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons are found to cause cancer. Furans have been associated with skin disorders, liver problems, certain kinds of cancers, impairment to the reproductive, endocrine, and immune system, as well as effects on embryonic development. Drink organic coffee grown by sustainable agricultural practices and avoid the intake of pesticide and herbicide residues with your morning brew.
And coffee itself is known to reduce the risk of Type II Diabetes as well as several types of cancer. Drink organic coffee for your health! But how do you find the healthiest organic coffees?
There are three sources of the healthiest organic coffees. Look for the seal of one of the following when you are looking for the healthiest organic coffees:
- USDA Certified Organic Coffee
- UTZ Certified Coffee
- Rainforest Alliance Certified Coffee
USDA Certified Organic Coffee
According to the United States Department of Agriculture, the following applies to USDA organic coffee as well as to all organic food production.
“… Organic food is produced by farmers who emphasize the use of renewable resources and the conservation of soil and water to enhance environmental quality for future generations.”
“…Before a product can be labeled ‘organic,’ a Government-approved certifier inspects the farm where the food is grown to make sure the farmer is following all the rules necessary to meet USDA organic standards. Companies that handle or process organic food before it gets to your local supermarket or restaurant must be certified, too.”
USDA Certified organic coffee has a USDA seal on the bag.
UTZ Certified Coffee
The long term goals of UTZ are good agricultural practices, safe and healthy working conditions, abolishment of child labor, and environmental protection. However, a grower does not need to accomplish all that is required in the first year. This allows a grower to sign up to get his coffee UTZ certified, learn what is necessary, and grow into the long term requirements of the program. Because of the close tracking feature of all UTZ Certified products, consumers of healthy organic coffee produced by these growers can be assured of product quality as well as the farming practices that brought it to market.
UTZ Certified organic coffee has the UTZ seal on the bag.
Rainforest Alliance Certified Coffee
Rainforest Alliance certified coffee is part of a broader sustainable agriculture program of tropical crops, including coffee, bananas, cocoa, oranges, cut flowers, ferns, and tea. Certified coffee farms meet a strict set of environmental standards that include preservation of the ecosystem and reduction in use of synthetic chemicals of all sorts. In addition, strict health and safety requirements are part of getting Rainforest Alliance certified. The Rainforest Alliance works with the Sustainable Agriculture Network which is a group that includes conservation organizations in nine countries in Latin America. These organizations work to increase and maintain sustainable agricultural practices. On the other end of the coffee spectrum Rainforest Alliance works to convince consumers and to buy Rainforest certified products and works to have businesses buy from certified farmers and sell to the public.
Rainforest Alliance organic coffee has the Rainforest Alliance seal on the bag.
We are partial to coffees that we can source directly from Colombia and Panama but many of the other healthiest organic coffees are available online and in various stores. If you are having problems locating a coffee that you would like to try, feel free to contact us by clicking the contact link at the top of the page.
Organic Shade Grown Coffee Brands
Shade-grown coffee comes from coffee plants grown under a tree canopy. Coffee growers plant both coffee and a variety of shade trees. This is a sustainable agricultural practice resulting in high quality organic coffee. Shade trees attract birds and are the cornerstone of a healthy habitat. Some coffee farmers plant plantain and other trees which produce fruits to harvest so they grow more than one crop on their land. There are numerous organic shade grown organic coffee brands. However, many of these types of healthy organic coffee may be hard to find. In general, when looking for organic coffee one looks for evidence of USDA certification. However, USDA certification does not guarantee that your coffee is one of the any organic shade grown coffee brands. Rather you may wish to look for UTZ certified coffee or coffee certified by the Rain Forest Alliance. Both of these organizations encourage a broader approach to growing organic coffee and commonly help promote organic shade grown coffee brands that their clients produce.
UTZ Certified Organic Coffee
The long term goals of UTZ are good agricultural practices, safe and healthy working conditions, abolishment of child labor, and environmental protection. A UTZ grower learns to do the following and then continues to do what is needed.
- Reduce and prevent soil erosion
- Keep records of fertilizer and chemical use and use these products responsibly
- Follow good farming practices including integrated pest management
- Avoid deforestation
- Protect water sources, native and endangered species
- Use native fauna for shade grown coffee
- Train workers properly in their own language
- Implement and follow through on health and safety requirements
- Teach and require good hygiene
UTZ follows coffee from planting to the roaster, carries out yearly inspections and promotes the organic shade grown coffee brands of its clients.
Rain Forest Alliance
An alternative to organic coffee certification is for a grower to be Rainforest Alliance certified. The Rainforest Alliance is a non-governmental organization that works to conserve biodiversity. It does so for agricultural products by influencing consumers to buy what is good for the environment and good for small farmers. Rainforest Alliance certified means that the coffee that you buy was produced using good land use practices. Rainforest Alliance certified coffee is part of a broader sustainable agriculture program of tropical crops, including coffee, bananas, cocoa, oranges, cut flowers, ferns, and tea. Certified coffee farms meet a strict set of environmental standards that include preservation of the ecosystem and reduction in use of synthetic chemicals of all sorts. Like UTZ, Rain Forest Alliance helps its clients promote their organic shade grown coffee brands.
Finding Organic Shade Grown Coffee Brands
Two good places to start when searching for organic shade grown coffee brands are the web sites of UTZ and the Rain Forest Alliance.
Rain Forest Alliance: http://www.rainforest-alliance.org/
UTZ: https://www.utzcertified.org/
Specific sellers of organic shade grown coffee brands include the following:
Coffee Tree: http://www.coffeetree.ca/buybeans/
Tree Frog Coffees: http://www.treefrogcoffees.com/brazil.htm
Rain Forest Certified Coffees: available on Amazon.com
Audubon Coffee Club: various coffees
And, if you are looking for small growers, out of the way organic shade grown coffee brands from Panama or Colombia feel free to contact us at Buy Organic Coffee for help with a couple more organic shade grown coffee brands.
Naturally Organic Coffee from Colombia
In our continuing search for healthy organic coffee I was visiting Colombia. In the heart of the Colombia coffee district, the Cafetero, is the mountain town of Manizales. A million people live in and around this city at elevations of 7000 feet more or less. Elevations in the city vary by 500 feet above and below the average! An active volcano, Nevada Ruiz, looms over the city at a height of 15,000 feet. The high altitude, plentiful rainfall, nearly continual cloud cover during the rainy season, volcanic soil and moderate temperatures make the area idea for growing coffee. There are lots of Colombian coffee brands and most are not labeled organic despite the fact that the vast majority of growers abide by organic standards. When I first asked around for where I could buy organic coffee people seemed confused. Then they became upset. Here I was in the premier coffee growing region of the entire world and I was asking for something different than basic, good, Colombia Arabica coffee! The story about naturally organic coffee from Colombia continues.
Organic Coffee, Certified or Not
Some time back we wrote about the Arabica coffee brand. This coffee comes from Finca Eliza west of Medellin. It is UTZ certified and the grower abides by organic standards. He simply has not bothered to deal with any of the agencies that certify coffee on behalf of the United States Department of Agriculture, such as Bio Latina. It is often the case that small coffee growers cannot afford the $500 a year fee to retain their certification. After all they produce naturally organic coffee from Colombia and have buyers locally and internationally without being certified. If one drives from Manizales, down the mountain, to the city of Pereira one sees coffee being grown on gentle slopes and virtual mountainsides. One sees coffee growing in back yards, tucked in under shade trees. This is naturally organic coffee from Colombia but the small growers simply do not have the wherewithal to cough up $500 to get USDA certification.
Finding Organic Coffee
Juan Valdez is a trademark of the Colombian Coffee Growers Association. It is also a brand name for organic coffee. In my first attempts to find organic labeling on coffee I found that I was irritating the good people of Manizales by suggesting that somehow their coffee was not as good as it is. Then I went to the movies at the new Fundadores mall. And there it was, a Juan Valdez coffee kiosk adjacent to the theater boasting several varieties of naturally organic coffee from Colombia and in this case coffee labeled with the USDA seal. Nevertheless, I also found virtually unlimited brands of naturally organic Colombian coffee at the Exito supermarket in the same mall. That is where I first ran across the Arabica brand, Aguila roja from Cali, sello rojo which is my brother-in-law’s favorite, Café Quindia from the Corazon of Colombia and many others.
Bringing Coffee Home from Colombia
And, of course, there is the issue of bringing bags of coffee out of Colombia. Fly out of Pereira or Bogotá and they will pin prick your coffee so that both the dog and the mechanical sniffer can check it out. Leave from Manizales with your wife’s family all around and the checkers are less likely to insult the local folks by being overly intrusive with your luggage or that of your wife. For now, my supply of naturally organic Colombian coffee is almost out so I will have to do with Panama Mountain Grown Organic coffee available here in Panama City, Panama at the El Rey supermarket, naturally organic coffee from Panama. I am looking forward to next year and our trip to see family in the Cafetero of Colombia.
DoiTung Coffee from Thailand
A friend returned from a visit to the Far East and brought me a bag of DoiTung coffee from Thailand. This is single source, shade grown Arabica coffee. It is an offshoot of the the DoiTung development project started and nurtured by the Princess Mother of Thailand. The DoiTung brand comprises four business units which are food, handicrafts, horticulture, and tourism. The Doi Tung Development Project (DTDP) is one of the four flagship projects of the Mae Fah Luang Foundation, established in 1988 by the Princess Mother on Doi Tung, a high mountain in Chiang Rai, the northernmost province of Thailand. This is the infamous Golden Triangle famous for its opium, war lords, and abject poverty. The area has become economically self-sufficient due to the efforts of the foundation and inspiration of the Princess Mother who, in fact, moved her home to the area.
Growing Regular and Healthy Organic Coffee in Asia
Asian regions such as Sri Lanka used to be big coffee producers. But in the 19th century a plant disease wiped out crops. It was coffee leaf rust. The disease was and is especially damaging to Arabica coffee strains. Sri Lanka planters switched to tea. The leaf rust was found in Africa by 1920, Brazil by 1970, and Colombia by the 1980’s. Colombian left rust resistant coffee emerged from years of research, cross breeding and field testing. In the meantime Vietnam became the second largest producer of coffee in the world after Brazil but with Robusta coffee. Vietnam is the largest supplier of caffeine for beverages sold by Nestle. The emergence of a find Arabica coffee, DoiTung coffee from Thailand is a welcome addition to coffees of the world. Much of the organic coffee from this region comes from the uplands of Indochina, namely Laos, Cambodia, and Vietnam. For more information about the Mae Fah Luang Foundation and its work, visit http://www.maefahluang.org/index.php.
Organic Coffee and Shade Grown Coffee and the Environment
DoiTung coffee from Thailand grows in an area that was virtually deforested. By planting coffee, growers can establish ground cover and retard erosion. By planting shade trees the growers can provide a higher quality of shade grown coffee and further reduce erosion. In addition the addition of shade trees brings back birds and other animals and helps rebalance the habitat. The goal of this project was to bring up the standard of living of the residents of the area, provide education, and create a self-sustaining community where there was only abject poverty and ignorance. If you want to do a little to help the world, consider buying a bag or two or a shipping container of DoiTung coffee from Thailand.
There are a couple of approaches to obtaining a reliable supply of high quality organic wholesale coffee. One is to contact the various certifying agencies around the world and request a list of the growers and processors whom they certify. Then one needs to contact these folks, typically in their native language, and negotiate price. The other approach is to contact someone “on the ground” in the area in which one is interested. For example, to find a source of Panama mountain grown organic coffee one can contact an agency such as Buy Organic Coffee.org in order to find promising sources of organic wholesale coffee and to help with the logistics of collecting and sending a shipment of green organic coffee beans, roasted organic coffee beans, or bagged and labeled organic coffee from countries such as Panama, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Colombia, and more.
Organic Irish Coffee
If you are a lover of healthy organic coffee and would also like a little something special on New Year’s Eve or any time, consider making organic Irish coffee. Irish coffee consists of coffee, whiskey, brown sugar, and whipped cream. A bit of attention to each of the ingredients will make your organic Irish coffee a treat for all. But, before we give you the recipe, how did this drink get its name. The story goes like this. There was an Irish chef at the airbase where Shannon International Airport now sits. There was a flight from Ireland to New York that had to turn back because of bad weather. The chef greeted the returning travelers with a hot drink of coffee, whiskey, brown sugar, and whipped cream. It became a regular feature at the airport and when people asked what kind of coffee it was they were told that it was Irish coffee (as opposed to one of the Brazilian or Colombian organic coffee brands). An American traveler brought the recipe back to America and it caught on. Now, if you want to make the best of all worlds, make organic Irish coffee and pay attention to how you do each step.
Organic Irish Coffee
Organic All the Way
Start your organic Irish coffee with Panama Mountain Grown organic coffee or coffee from Colombia. You can order organic whiskey from http://www.graigfarm.co.uk/ if they do not have any at your local liquor store. Use organic brown sugar and organic whipping cream. Because of all the cooler ingredients you will be adding make sure that you start with hot coffee poured into a pre-heated glass. For each cup of organic Irish coffee use the following:
- Coffee mug (A glass mug is traditional.)
- Tablespoon
- 4 ounces of hot coffee freshly ground and brewed organic coffee
- 1 ounce of organic, preferably Irish, whiskey
- 2 teaspoonful of brown sugar
- 1 ounce of organic double cream whipped just lightly
The Steps
- Have everything ready.
- Warm your coffee mug.
- Put the brown sugar into the glass and then add the hot organic coffee.
- Stir until the sugar dissolves.
- Add the whiskey and stir again.
- Add the cream by pouring gently over the back side of the tablespoon so that the whipped cream sits on top of the coffee.
- A little cinnamon and or nutmeg sprinkled on top of the whipped cream are an American addition to this treat and are optional.
Serve your organic Irish coffee on any cold winter evening, especially after outdoor activities. This can be a great tradition over the year end holidays. Pick a good organic coffee and a good organic whiskey. Remember not to beat the whipping cream excessively as you want it to cover the top of the coffee and not float as a lump like an iceberg in a sea of coffee. And make sure to leave enough room for the whipped cream when you add the coffee. A good way to preheat your coffee mugs is to have boiling water on hand. Pour hot water into the mugs to sit while you grind and brew your coffee. Then pour the water out of the hot cups before adding sugar and coffee. Have a tray handy to carry your treasure of organic Irish coffee to your guests and be ready to accept compliments.
Send Organic Coffee for Christmas
Trying to think of a holiday gift for your hard-to-shop-for father-in-law? Send organic coffee for Christmas. Healthy organic coffee is unique gift. Send one of the Colombian organic coffee brands and gain the respect of your coffee drinking friend or family member. If you are going to send organic coffee from Christmas you can head over to your local coffee roaster and pick out something exotic from their stock of organic green coffee beans. Have them roast up a pound or two and send the bag in a brightly gift wrapped box to you hard-to-shop-for friend or family member. If you like the idea of one-stop shopping, send organic coffee for Christmas to every adult on your list. So, we have decided that this is a good idea. If you would like consider buying online or, if you have a connection to coffee country, order directly and have organic coffee delivered with a postmark from the country of origin.
Coffee from Panama
Panama mountain grown organic coffee is a great choice if you want to impress when you send organic coffee for Christmas. Panama is the small Central American country that serves as a land bridge between North and South America. Many recognize the name because of the Panama Canal that connects Atlantic to Pacific. Panama has a mountainous spine, the Cordillera Central, in Spanish. This region is ideal for growing healthy organic coffee. It is in the rich volcanic soil of the Cordillera Central in the highlands of the province of Chiriquí that Panama grows some of the best coffee in the world. This is a relatively small region so Panama does not compete for tons of coffee produced against the large scale coffee producers like Brazil, Vietnam, Colombia, or Indonesia. What Panama lacks in volume of production it more than makes up for in the quality of coffee that it produces.
Coffee from Colombia
The Colombian Cafetero is a legendary coffee growing region west of Bogotá, Colombia. Colombia is the second leading producer by weight of the best brand of coffee, Arabica. However, Colombian coffee is generally considered to be pound for pound the best in the world. In fact, as leaf rust attacks coffee crops in other nations Colombia may well end up being the most reliable source of high quality coffee as well. When the plant disease arrived in Latin America Colombia worked on a cure and has produced strains of leaf rust resistant coffee. As Colombia recovers from leaf rust it is time to send organic coffee for Christmas, the Colombian variety. There are a lot of excellent organic coffee brands in Colombia but it is not possible to mail coffee directly from that nation to most places in the world. Rather one must export or carry coffee out of the country in ones luggage. You could fly to Bogotá and visit the Juan Valdez coffee shop in the international terminal and fly back home with a suitcase full of coffee. On the other hand you could contact us at Buy Organic Coffee and ask for a little help when you want to send organic coffee for Christmas.
How Many Cups of Coffee a Day
Scientific research tells us that drinking coffee lowers our risk of Type II Diabetes, various forms of cancer, the risk of depression and even suicide, as well as Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s diseases. But, how many cups of coffee a day should you drink to get the maximum health benefit? And are there side effects to be concerned about? Let us start with coffee and reducing the risk of diabetes.
Coffee and Diabetes
We know that more regular or more organic coffee can lead to less diabetes. Drinking organic coffee reduces the incidence of Type II diabetes, the type that affects 95% of people with the disease. Researchers at UCLA have found what may be the reason. There is a protein called sex hormone-binding globulin. Its normal job is to regulate sex hormone activity in the human body. Researchers had suspected that the same hormone has an effect on the development of Type II diabetes. It turns out that drinking coffee increases the levels of sex hormone-binding globulin in the body. Women who drink at least four cups of coffee a day have less than half the incidence of Type II diabetes as women who do not drink coffee. The coffee drinkers all had elevated sex hormone-binding globulin levels while the non-coffee drinkers did not. The relationship was total between the elevated enzyme level and a reduced incidence of Type II diabetes. The bottom line of the UCLA study was that drinking 4 or more cups of coffee a day, with caffeine, reduces Type II diabetes incidence by 56%, more than half. The American Diabetes Association says that nearly 24 million Americans have diabetes of which more than 9 in 10 have the Type II variety. That comes to roughly 22 million people with Type 2 diabetes. The issue of how many cups of coffee can lead to less diabetes could be a significant issue in US public health.
Coffee and Cancer
Drinking coffee reduces prostate cancer risk. The Journal of the National Cancer Institute published an article showing the results of coffee consumption in various degrees of 47,911 men from 1986 to 2006. During that time 5,035 developed prostate cancer including 642 cases of lethal prostate cancer, fatal or metastatic. Researchers compared men who drank six or more cups of coffee a day to those who did not drink coffee. The incidence of total prostate cancers per 100,000 person-years was 425 for the six a day coffee drinkers and 519 for those who did not drink coffee. The comparison for lethal cancers per 100,000 person years was 34 to 79. This study noted that the data applies to all coffee, including decaf. Thus drinking organic coffee reduces prostate cancer. Those drinking six or more cups a day had a nearly twenty percent reduction in risk of getting any form of prostate cancer. The same coffee drinkers had a 57% reduction in their risk of developing a lethal prostate cancer!
How many cups of coffee a day should you drink to obtain the many health benefits of coffee? Four cups a day leads to a definite difference in the incidence of Type II Diabetes and six cups a day makes a big difference in the incidence of prostate cancer. In many case there is a linear correlation between the amount of coffee that a person drinks and the beneficial effects. That is to say no matter how many cups of coffee a day that you drink there is an increasing benefit to drinking more coffee.
Organic Wholesale Coffee Suppliers
Of the many organic wholesale coffee suppliers our preference is for suppliers of Panama wholesale organic coffee and Colombian organic coffee brands. These Arabica coffees are some of the best in the world. In this region of the world individual growers can act as organic wholesale coffee suppliers of either wholesale organic green coffee beans or roasted organic coffee beans. If you are interested in having great organic coffee for yourself you may choose to simply buy roasted whole bean coffee from organic wholesale coffee suppliers. If you need to store the coffee for a long time or are purchasing for resale you most likely will purchase green beans with a two year shelf life.
Coffee from Panama
If you are looking for healthy organic coffee in bulk consider Panama wholesale organic coffee. Panama is the transportation hub of the Americas. Panama is the site of the Panama Canal and its Tocumen International Airport handles well over a million passengers a year. Panama is also the southernmost stretch of the Pan American Highway before it restarts in South America. So, if you buy from organic wholesale coffee suppliers in Panama you have the ability to easily ship by land, sea, or air to any point in North America, or the world.
In in the tropics, the highlands are referred to as the land of eternal spring. The elevation provides a relief from the coastal heat but, because Panama is in the tropics, it does not get cold. The highlands of Panama are ideal for growing coffee. They have rich volcanic soil and a coffee growing culture going back a century. Small, family, farms grow coffee on the slopes of the mountains and hills. Many of these coffee farms produce shade grown coffee as growers have left much of the natural habitat in place. In addition, many growers have uses sustainable growing techniques for coffee for years. Thus it is a small step for many to receive Bio Latina organic coffee certification. The highlands of Panama have several organic wholesale coffee suppliers. Check with us for details.
Coffee from Colombia
Colombian coffee is generally considered the best Arabica coffee in the world. Here are a few of the outstanding Colombian organic coffee brands and retail prices for individual bags of coffee purchased in Colombia. Working through organic wholesale coffee suppliers such as Buy Organic Coffee you can purchase large amounts at wholesale prices.
| Colombian Organic Coffee Brands and Retail Prices in Colombia | |||
| Brand | Retail/Pesos | Retail Quantity | Retail in Dollars |
| Volcan | 20000 | 500 grams | $11.11 |
| Linea Roja | 19000 | 500 grams | $10.56 |
| Sostenible | 24500 | 500 grams | $13.61 |
| Origen | 25000 | 500 grams | $13.89 |
| Frailes | 18600 | 500 grams | $10.33 |
This table lists Colombian organic coffee brands available in the Colombian Cafetero. Prices are retail in Colombian Pesos and the US dollar equivalents are based on the late 2012 exchange rate of around 1,800 Colombian Pesos to the US dollar. Purchasing Juan Valdez organic coffee, that is to say Colombian organic coffee brands, is easy in Colombia and is easy if it has been exported from Colombia. However, getting Colombian organic coffee brands sent from Colombia can be difficult. If you have questions in this regard please contact us at your convenience.