Instant coffee is dry coffee extract obtained by evaporating the water in the coffee extract. Instant coffee can quickly dissolve in hot water, takes up less space and volume during storage and transportation, and is more durable.

Instant coffee is different from the more complicated traditional coffee brewing method, so it has gained wide popularity. The nutritional content of instant coffee is not as good as traditional coffee brewed from fresh coffee beans. It has higher fat and sugar content, and lower high-quality protein and caffeine. The essence of coffee may be lost during the production process, and regular drinking has certain harms.

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The development history of instant coffee:

Instant coffee is produced by extracting active ingredients from roasted and ground coffee beans and drying them. During the process, some aromatic substances will inevitably be lost, making the flavor and taste of the finished product less rich and pure than directly boiled, roasted and ground coffee.

Therefore, since the birth of instant coffee in 1938, restoring the flavor and taste of roasted and ground coffee has been the direction of continuous efforts of instant coffee producers, and they have gradually developed "spray-dried coffee" and "condensation-enhanced coffee". "Fragrant coffee" and "freeze-dried coffee" are three generations of instant coffee products.

Among them, freeze-dried coffee produced using vacuum freeze-drying technology is the instant coffee with the best quality, best flavor and taste in the world. It completely avoids the need for spray-drying coffee or condensation-flavored coffee production. The high-temperature drying process damages the quality of coffee, but the flavor and taste of roasted and ground coffee are intact. The quality of instant coffee has been greatly improved since then.

Of course, its selling price is 1.5-2 times higher than "spray-dried coffee" and 50% or even 1 times higher than "condensed and flavored coffee".

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