Kona coffee
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Kona Coffee is the market name for a variety of coffee (Coffea arabica) cultivated on the slopes of Mount Hualalai in the Kona District of the island of Hawaii and whose seeds are dried, roasted, ground and brewed to prepare a beverage whose principal psychoactive ingredient is the stimulant caffeine. Kona Coffee beans are classified based on the seed type, commonly referred to as cherry because of the resemblance of the ripe berry to a cherry fruit. Type I beans consist of two beans per cherry and Type II beans consist of one bean per cherry. The further grading of these two types of beans depends on size, moisture content, purity of bean type and size. The grades of Type 1 Kona coffee are: Kona Extra fancy; Kona fancy; Kona Number 1; and, Kona Prime. The grades of Type 2 Kona coffee are: Peaberry; and Peaberry Prime.



