Higher levels of trigonelline is found in robusta coffee.

Robusta coffee beans do not cost as much as Arabica.

Robusta coffee grows natively in the Kibale forest area.

Indonesia is the world's leading producer of robusta coffee beans, largely used for instant coffee.

It is the largest producer of black pepper and robusta coffee, which is used for instant blends.

Some coffee farmers cultivated cacao plants on land already producing robusta coffee.

Brazil also exports a sizable amount of the cheaper robusta coffee beans, which are often mixed with arabica.

Kopi Tiam (local coffee shop) with strong bitter robusta coffee can be found every where.

Part of the reason for the different taste is that Robusta coffee beans are usually used for making instant coffee.

In London, meanwhile, the spot price for robusta coffee fell the equivalent of 10 cents a pound, to about 70 cents, a seven-year low.

Brokers were relieved that the contracts in the questionable trading were not the exchange's main ones: cocoa, sugar and robusta coffee.

Interestingly, Laos produces Robusta coffee at high altitudes (1300 m.a.s.l.) unlike other countries.

It is described as having a flavor about as good as low-grade robusta coffee, and costs about 10 a cup to produce.

Some of the major produce in the country includes robusta Coffee beans, Cocoa beans, coconuts and cloves.

He notes that coffee is very cheap due to the use of Coffea canephora (robusta coffee) in Vietnam and other countries.

Robusta coffee (C. canephor var.

Not a single Illy bean comes from Vietnam, whose surging production of cheap robusta coffee has led to a worldwide glut in the last decade.

Coffea canephora (robusta coffee)

Dr. Illy dismisses robusta coffees as "truck-tire consommé."

Robusta coffee beans are grown in western and central Africa, throughout southeast Asia, and to some extent in Brazil.

The robusta coffee is of poorer quality, being darker, more bitter, with less flavour that the Arabic variety is generally used for cheaper instant coffee.

The main diet of the indigenous people includes cassava, corn, peanuts, robusta coffee, cocoyams, bananas, papayas, wild berries and koko leaf.

He suggested that decaffeinated coffee may contain greater quantities of robusta coffee beans, while regular coffee often contains arabica beans.

ROBUSTA Coffee futures saw further losses, with prices falling to fresh 14 year lows in mid-afternoon trading.

In recent years, Vietnam, which produces mostly robusta, has surpassed Brazil, India, and Indonesia to become the world's single largest exporter of robusta coffee.

Robusta coffee (Coffea canephora; syn.

The two most commonly grown are also the most highly regarded Coffea arabica, and the "robusta" form of the hardier Coffea canephora.

Small-holders grow Arabica coffee (Coffea arabica) in the highlands, while Robusta (Coffea canephora) is found in the low lands.

It is said to produce better tasting coffee than the other major commercially grown coffee species, Coffea canephora (robusta), because robusta cherries contain twice as much caffeine as arabica.