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Coffee is a popular beverage recognized for its ability to sharpen your focus and increase your energy levels.

In fact, many people rely on their daily cup of coffee to get their day started on the right foot.

Aside from its stimulating effects, coffee has been connected to a slew of possible health advantages, giving you even more reason to start brewing; includes its capacity to boost energy, promote weight loss, improve athletic performance, and protect against chronic disease.

Coffee includes caffeine, a central nervous system stimulant known for its ability to combat weariness and boost energy levels. This is because coffee blocks the receptors of a neurotransmitter called adenosine, which raises levels of other neurotransmitters in your brain that regulate your energy levels, such as dopamine. Caffeine can have a variety of consequences, including anxiety and sleep disruption, but this is highly individual.

Imagine waking up to a cup of coffee and toasting whole wheat bread on a black plate on a red table while enjoying the sunshine!

It’s perfect if it is a cup of Ceylon coffee that has been processed and roasted properly, producing a mellow if earthy cup with unmistakable notes of black pepper.

Ceylon Coffee 

Ceylon Coffee has a longer history than Ceylon Tea, which is now a global household name. Around the year 1780, the Ceylon Coffee period began. The Dutch were the first to cultivate coffee as a commercial crop, and the British took over from them. The coffee planters received considerable backing from the colonial administration and continued to expand the coffee plantation. It was a good venture until the unexpected tragedy of the coffee rust disease ended the coffee era and Ceylon tea mostly replaced it. 

Kotmale, Kandy, Matale, Kegalle, Badulla, and Nuwaraeliya are only a few of the climatically diverse places in Sri Lanka where many coffee varieties are grown.

Ceylon Coffee Flavor Profile

Because of the highland terroir of Sri Lanka, Ceylon Coffee has a stunning flavor profile, with delightfully unique flavors and complex features. Sri Lanka coffee is described as creamy and smooth, with chocolate undertones.

Even within the same terroir, minor variations in soils, and height produce subtle differences in Ceylon Coffee flavor. Coffee grown in the Bandarawela region, for example, has honey and fruity overtones, but coffee grown in Kotmale region has more citrus and flowery notes.

Coffee Varieties

Arabica, robusta, excelsa, and liberica are the four main coffee varieties, each with its own distinct flavor character. Coffea arabica and C. robusta coffees are cultivated on a commercially significant scale in Sri Lanka. As a result, Arabica and Robusta coffee beans can be sourced from Sri Lanka.

Arabica coffee beans are considered higher quality beans, producing a silky smooth coffee with slight almond undertones. When compared to Arabica beans, Robusta beans have twice as much caffeine, making them a good choice for a substantial boost with a harsher flavor. 

Robusta beans have a smooth texture and a subtle chocolate flavor, making them an ideal coffee to drink with milk and sugar (perhaps even as an iced coffee). Sri Lanka exports whole-bean coffee in both raw and artisan roast forms.

Premium Single Origin Ceylon Coffee

Arabica coffee dominates the specialty coffee market. Coffee connoisseurs choose single-origin, smallholder cultivated, high elevation grown, washed, honey, or naturally processed specialty coffees.  
The Renaissance period Ceylon Coffee is the result of multiple entrepreneurs' passionate efforts, all of whom are, naturally, coffee enthusiasts. At the present, their sole focus is on quality rather than quantity, as that is what single-origin premium specialty coffee is all about.

As a result, the speciality coffee movement in Sri Lanka is distinguished by roasting and presenting coffee as an artisanal product, made by individuals conscious of origin as well as environmental and social sustainability.

Nonetheless, drinking coffee in moderation — three to four cups a day — has been linked to a number of health benefits and is generally regarded as safe for most adults.