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What is Mocha coffee?
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The word Mocha has many meanings. Around 600 AD
Ethiopia's coffee beans have launched a worldwide coffee industry in Yemen.
Since the most important export port of Yemeni coffee in the early days was the port of Mocha (now silted up)
The coffee produced in Yemen is also called mocha beans.
Over time, some people began to use "mocha" as a nickname for coffee.
The situation is similar to that in Java today.
Later, because the aftertaste of mocha coffee looks like chocolate
Beans with this characteristic are also collectively known as mocha beans.
Such as Yemeni mocha beans, Hara mocha beans, Tennessee mocha beans and so on.
Therefore, the same is "mocha", but the meaning is very different, as follows
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Mocha beans: coffee beans that look like chocolate at present
Mochafe: invented by Italian (Bialetti) company, it is popularized and popular. Using "mocha" as a trademark is very casual and has little to do with mocha beans.
Mocha: in the early days, it referred to black coffee with a chocolate-like aftertaste, but now it has been expanded into a mixture of hot chocolate and coffee.