The Differences Between Organic Coffee and Other Coffees

What is organic coffee? How does it differ from traditional coffee? It all begins in the way that this ever-popular drink's beans are harvested. First of all, the farms that grow organic beans are set up completely differently.

Conventional coffee beans are treated with chemicals including pesticides and the like. When they are not treated directly, if the soil near coffee plants has chemicals present in it, some believe they can make their way throughout the plant. That means all the way into the coffee beans themselves.

Whether pesticides have an adverse effect on the human body is a longstanding debate that will probably continue. However, organic coffee consumption removes the worry from the minds of consumers who choose to drink it.

The farms that grow organic beans are required not only to not treat the crop itself with synthetic fertilizers, pesticides, but they are also mandated not to allow them to be grown in near proximity to land that has been treated synthetically. These strict guidelines ensure there is a near-zero chance that the coffee beans harvested from such land will contain any potentially harmful chemicals or any prohibited substances.

Objections to coffee plantation (as opposed to organic coffee plantation) span far beyond the consequences of human consumption. The fact that fossil fuels are used to produce synthetic fertilizers adds to the problem. That means that the plants themselves are not healthy due to the limited composition of the unhealthy 'food' they are provided in order to grow. Most fuels used to produce these fertilizers are blends made up of nitrogen, phosophorus and potassium.