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The structure of berries from the outside to the inside is

Pericarp: the pericarp of a berry is tight and thick and can be bitten.

Fruit: mainly water and sugar. Berries account for almost 80% of the coffee harvest and are often reused as fertilizer from coffee producing areas.

Mucus: a sweet, sticky, honey-like substance that covers the surface of coffee beans.

The skin of coffee: a thin white parchment that resembles the coat of a peanut.

Silver skin: protecting coffee beans

Raw beans: they are actually coffee beans. There are two face-to-face coffee beans in each coffee berry, but in about 5% of the 10% berries, only one coffee bean grows in the middle. This kind of coffee beans is called "beads".