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. 2016 Apr 18;6:24483. doi: 10.1038/srep24483

Table 1. Details on the four coffees (Coffea arabica) that were ground in this experiment: two African and two South American.

Farm/Estate Origin Variety Roaster Roast Agtron colour
Las Ilusiones (W) Guatemala Caturra and Bourbon Round Hill Espresso 62
Santa Petrona (W) El Salvador Pacamara Has Bean Espresso 59
Burka (W) Tanzania Red Bourbon Has Bean Espresso 59
Sasaba (N) Ethiopia Mixed Heirloom James Gourmet Filter 68

(W) and (N) indicate washed and natural processing methods, respectively. ‘Roast’ is used as an indication for whether the coffee was roasted for filter (lighter) or espresso (darker) style coffee, and can be quantified by the ‘Agtron colour’ as determined by the Agtron spectrophotometeric measurement46. All coffees examined here would be considered light/medium roasted relative to typical commodity grade coffee.