I Just Found Out How Coffee Beans Grow And Honestly I'm Blown Away

We're drinking roasted seed juice.

So, I saw this tweet the other day. And like roughly 20,000–57,000 other people, it kinda blew my mind.

Twitter: @lockwooddewitt

But lo, in the replies, a revelation:

Twitter: @sephistication

Um, excuse me, what? Coffee beans are FRUIT??

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Here's what coffee looks like before it's picked. Are you ready for this?

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Yeah, they're like freakin' berries!

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When you split open the fruit, you get these two little seeds, which are what we call coffee "beans."

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They're wet and raw and look very different from the dried, roasted coffee beans they eventually become.

It turns out that vanilla is pretty much the same deal: Not a bean, actually a fruit.

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They're usually green before they're dried and cured.

So really, coffee is less of a bean soup and more like just hot seed water.

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Soy beans are actual legumes, so a vanilla latte has some added fruit flavoring and bean juice.

Delicious.

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