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| 100% DECAF ORGANIC COFFEE |
| Organic farming starts with building well balanced soil, that means there are no pesticides or additives to the soil. Organic farming preserves the farmland for the future. Organic farming does not use chemicals that can pollute our water system from the smallest streams to our oceans. As demand grows for more organically grown food so will the economic futures of family farms and their communities. The SWISS WATER® Process is a 100% chemical free coffee decaffeination process that results in great-tasting decaf. In the initial stage of the water-decaffeination process, green beans are soaked in water to create an extract that includes both the coffee compounds and the caffeine. The extract is then filtered through carbon to remove the caffeine so that it can be used to extract caffeine from subsequent batches of beans while leaving most of the other flavor compounds intact. The extract is then used repeatedly to decaffeinate new batches of coffee, and it is filtered through carbon as necessary to remove the caffeine. In the early days of this process, the beans to be decaffeinated experienced longer contact time with the heated green coffee extract, practically soaking in it. But today, in the Swiss Water process at least, the beans are placed in vertical cylinders, and the extract, which is heated to around 175 degrees Fahrenheit, is trickled down through a tower of beans to minimize bean-to-liquid contact time while still efficiently extracting caffeine. Most other processes use chemical solvents, like methylene chloride, to decaffeinate coffee beans. Conversely, the SWISS WATER® Process uses only water when removing caffeine, producing water processed decaf coffee. |
| 100% Organic Sumatra Mandheling Swiss Water Decaf Coffee SKU JD 0322 Weight 1 lb $17.95 Weight 5 lb $83.95 |
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