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As each day passes by, life gets busier and time slips faster from our hands. So, to cope with this ever increasing pace of life, human civilization is constantly employing its head in making things smaller, more compact and faster. While technology changes from mini, through micro to nano; coffee making changes from home roasting, grinding and brewing to instant coffee and coffee pods. Organic Coffee Pods are the results of this endless research. Coffee Pods are not very new to the world, and neither the Organic Coffee Pods are. It is quite some time that they are in the market but still unknown to a vast population. This article is for them who either do not know what Coffee Pods are or those who do not know the differences between regular Coffee Pods and Organic Coffee Pods. Here we go!
• Organic Coffee Pods: Those who know about them may not see anything remarkable in them, but they may seem strange and sometimes unwelcome to those who are habituated to a masterpiece churned out by an expert barista after an intricate and long drill. Okay! I am sure that these pods were not invented keeping in mind those hard-core lovers of coffee. But, even they would certify that these Organic Coffee Pods are no way bad, if not the best way to have a cup of coffee. They are one of the fastest ways of having a good cup of organic coffee. Organic Coffee Pods are small packets containing ground organic coffee, something like tea bags, packed in filter paper or cloth pods, each containing sufficient quantity of Organic Coffee to prepare one serve for an average coffee drinker. These Organic Coffee Pods are outcome of a research to make organic coffee available in “Ready to Use” form to those busy people who do neither have time to search and buy organic coffee beans, roast them, grind them at home and brew it to enjoy it, nor to sit hours in a café waiting for a cup of organic coffee. They are targeted to reach those office dwellers who have just sufficient time to drop a pod into hot water and sip into the cup while working.
• Quality Concern: If you thought that these coffee pods are just another way of selling cheap second grade coffee into attractive wraps of packets, then perhaps you were mistaken. You can find even some premium organic coffee in these Organic Coffee Pods, subject to your careful sorting and picking up the right thing. So, if you want to have the best deal; please check following things before you buy these Organic Coffee Pods.
• Do not settle for anything less than hundred percent organic contents. Any compromise in this will mean your total labour and money you spent after this organic thing going in vein. For this, check the certificate of organic products on the pack.
• Do never go for the pods that are made up of paper, as paper is hardly organic (you know what it is made up of and how; the extensive bleaching, emulsifying etc.). Go for the pods that are made of cloth, because cloth (predominantly cotton in this case), can be organic. If at all you have no other choice but to pick up the paper pods, make sure the paper used is organic (I don’t know how far this can be possible).
• Organic Coffee Pods from reputed companies bear the name of variety of coffee they contain. Pick the one of your choice!
• Availability: Organic Coffee Pods are not yet popular in India and the subcontinent and hence are not readily available here. They can be found in big shopping malls in metropolitan cities here. Things are much different in Europe and America and Eastern Asian nations. Similarly, they are also not readily available in those places where people are hardcore lovers of classic hand made premium coffees, where coffee is a passion, a part of culture.
• Benefits: Organic Coffee Pods are good for health in the sense that they are organic and free from harmful chemicals or synthetic substances and their adverse effects, if we ignore the caffeine in it. But then, we also have Decaffeinated Organic Coffee Pods; but that is another issue. They are also beneficial for the environment as no chemicals are used in their production, processing and packaging.
• Drawbacks: Barring the lesser availability in some regions and higher price (smaller the packs, higher the retail rates), there is one more drawback. Although Organic Coffee in itself is beneficial for the environment, but the pods (paper or cloth) add to the short term garbage (I said short term because the pods are made up of either of paper or cloth, both of which are bio-degradable in due course of time). This problem is not there when Organic Coffee is prepared or brewed traditionally. But again, I do mention that it is not a persistent or serious problem.
• Rest is Fine: Organic Coffee Pods provide excellent means to bring organic coffee within the reach of those who have everything but time.
So folks! What are you waiting for? Keep one pack of the best available Organic Coffee Pods in your office; dip them in hot milk or water and enjoy some superb and healthy organic coffee while working on your PC.
This article was contributed by Aparup Mukherjee
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