Did Color of Coffee Affect its Taste?

Light brown, medium brown, dark roasted and black are some of the common responses when we talk about the coffee. This depends on the color element of coffee flavor, which is important for the roasted coffee beans to fulfill the demand of the customers. The successful coffee manufacturers carried their process of production by following a strict color evaluation process. This quality control process of coffee bean’s color helps to monitor the flavor of the coffee throughout the manufacturing process and even at the time of roasting. 

Different colors of Roasted Coffee Beans

The process of roasting transforms the flavor and color of the beans. Hence, it is necessary to keep a proper check on the coffee beans at the time of roasting and needs to be monitored carefully. There are four categories of roasted coffee such as dark, medium, medium dark, and light. The color of the coffee affects its taste. The dark color of coffee tastes bitter as compared to that of light colored coffee. For complete quality control of coffees, colorimeters are used to determine the level of roast. Testronix instruments offer a broad range of colorimeters to test the different food products. TP60 CP is the best measuring device which is used to measure the color of roasted coffee beans. The instrument offers valuable data regarding the color quality of the coffee. The device provides the results in Pass/Fail criteria and determines whether the product meets the actual color measurement requirements or not.

Technical Expertise of TP 60 CP

·         Illuminating geometry of the device is 8/d

·         Offers LED light source for sample illumination.

·         Two measuring apertures i.e. flat and tip aperture of diameter 8mm and 4mm are used.

·         Lights used as source of illumination are D65， A， C， D50， F2， F6， F7， F8， F10， F11， F 12

• Instrument require only 0.4 seconds for single measurement.
• Offers a high rate of repeatability with ΔE* ab 0. 03 with an average of 30 56.
• Data that can be displayed on the screen includes a color difference value graph.

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