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Have You Found Out How Great Organic Coffee Can Be?

Thursday, May 7th, 2009    Subscribe To Our Feed

So, let’s take a quick journey through the definition of organic and what this has to do with organic coffee and other organic products.

1) Synthetic fertilizers can’t be utilized to grow certified organic crops.

2) Organic certified products can’t use Frankenstein, genetically engineered crops or animals.

3) To be labeled 100% organic products may only contain organic ingredients (excluding water and salt).

4) The term “certified organic” is a little tricky. In this case only 95% of the ingredients need to be certified organic, the remaining 5% must be on the USDA approved list and not be available in a non-organic form.

5) Foods that are 100% Organic or Organic (95% organic) can display the USDA organic logo.

6) If an agricultural product, such as coffee is labeled as organic it wasn’t be treated with environmentally hazardous fertilizers like sewage sludge.

I’m not trying to belabor this issue with boring organic labeling information, but you should know what you’re dealing with “organic” products. Now let’s discuss my passion, organic coffee. Looking back to the meaning of certified organic, organic coffee is at least 95% organically grown ingredients.

Do you want to know why you might want to care if your coffee is organic?

1) People more than likely wouldn’t want to imbibe coffee that was fertilized with sewage sludge, do you?

2) One of my most endearing comforts with the USDA organic certification is no gene splicing business.

3) If you don’t like the buzz of real coffee then only drink organic decaf. coffee, or don’t drink coffee at all. Carcinogenic chemicals such as ethyl acetate and methylene chloride are used in making conventional decaf. coffees. Organic decaf. coffee is processed using hot water, and NO chemicals. There is epidemiological evidence to suggest that imbibing conventional decaffeinated coffees is associated with an increased risk of rheumatoid arthritis.

4) It’s not just the consumer that chemicals are bad for, but think about the humble coffee farmers. Many coffee farmers in undeveloped countries are not able to read very well, which may result in improper mixing of chemicals and lack of protective clothing.

I could go on and on about why you would want to only buy organic coffee. I haven’t even delved into all the environmental havoc that is caused by just producing the pesticides and herbicides.

Finally, there is the naturalness factor. Farmers cultivating their crops organically keep a close eye on their crops to ensure they are not destroyed by critters. It’s never too late to start buying organic coffee. So give it a try, you may be happy as a clam.

If you’re wondering where to get some outstanding organic coffee look no further than Nectar of Life Coffee. It’s more than organic coffee, it’s the Nectar of Life!

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