Coffee
- Arabica
- The coffee species most specialty coffee comes from; it grows best at altitude.
- Robusta
- A hardier coffee species with more caffeine, often used in espresso blends and instant coffee.
- Single origin
- Coffee from one country, region or farm, named after where it grew.
- Blend
- Coffees from several origins, mixed by the roaster for a steady taste.
- Washed process
- The fruit is removed from the bean before drying.
- Natural process
- The whole coffee cherry dries with the bean inside, before the fruit is removed.
- Honey process
- The skin is removed but some of the sticky fruit is left on the bean while it dries.
- Roast level
- How long and how hot the beans were roasted: light, medium or dark.
- Espresso roast
- A coffee its roaster roasts or recommends for espresso.
- Decaf
- Coffee with most of its caffeine removed; US rules ask for at least 97%.
- Gesha (Geisha)
- A coffee variety first found in Ethiopia, known from Panama's auction records.
- Whole bean, ground
- Beans as roasted, or ground for a brew method.
Tea
- Camellia sinensis
- The tea plant. Black, green, oolong, white and pu-erh teas all come from it.
- Black tea
- Tea whose leaves are fully oxidised.
- Green tea
- Tea heated soon after picking, so the leaves don't oxidise.
- Oolong
- Tea whose leaves are partly oxidised, between green and black.
- White tea
- Buds and young leaves, withered and dried with little handling.
- Pu-erh
- A tea from Yunnan, China, often pressed into cakes and aged.
- Matcha
- Shade-grown green tea ground into a powder and whisked into water.
- Chai
- Tea brewed with spices, or a spice blend for it; usually based on black tea.
- Herbal tea
- An infusion of herbs, flowers, fruit or roots, such as rooibos or chamomile; not from the tea plant.
Prices
- Usual price
- The highest price a size sold for on at least 7 of the last 30 days.
- Real drop
- Today's price under the usual price, by our own price history.
- Lowest in 30 days
- A real drop with no cheaper day in the last 30.
- Store sale
- A price the store shows against its own crossed-out "was" price; we don't count it as a drop.
- Per kg, per 100 g
- The price for the same weight, to compare bags of different sizes: per kg for coffee, per 100 g for tea.