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The FRESHEST Taste

Rainforest Coffee is not roasted until it is ready to be brewed. It stays fresh in its green state for up to two years. It is unrivaled for its aromatic flavor. Like freshly baked bread, the aroma and flavor of freshly roasted coffee oxidizes very quickly; the roasted coffee you buy from the supermarket is stale coffee. Even famous brand-name roasted whole bean coffee is stale, if it has been on the shelf for more than seven days. Coffee loses its aroma in 72 hours and becomes stale after seven days, according to coffee guru Michael Sivetz, author of the "coffee bible," Coffee Quality.

The BEST for Less

A cup of Rainforest Coffee custom-roasted and brewed by you will cost you approximately 12 cents. A pound of green coffee will make up to 40 cups of coffee. The average price of our green coffee per pound is $5.00. Rainforest Coffee sells for $5.00 to $6.50, depending on the coffee country of origin. A pound of roasted, stale coffee from one of the major sellers costs $7 to $11. Go Shopping and your coffee beans!

The HEALTHIEST for Your Body

A freshly roasted cup of coffee, consumed within 20 minutes, contains healthful antioxidants equal to the amount found in three oranges, according to University of California (Davis) environmental toxicologist Takayuki Shibamoto, author of Functional Foods for Disease Prevention. An article , "Give Coffee a Break", by Robert L. Pela, states that author Kenneth Davids found that coffee has been used for years by runners and endurance athletes to aid in metabolizing fatty acids. The Journal of the American Medical Association study on coffee and dietary caffeine found that coffee greatly reduces the risk of Parkinson Disease.

The FAIREST for the Farmers
The coffee farmer who hand-picks the ripe coffee cherries for your enjoyment makes only pennies for every dollar you spend on a cup of coffee. Because Rainforest Coffee buys directly from the farmers, you will help them become an economic engine in their communities, and the stewards of the rainforest, protecting their interest in keeping the wild alive for generations to come.

The FRIENDLIEST to the Environment

Solar-Coffee Connection article
(Solar Today magazine)

SUN Utility Network, Inc., an affiliated company, provides solar coffee drying systems to dry coffee beans to help protect the rainforest in Central America. Coffee growing is destroying the rainforests by using woods to dry the green coffee beans, the habitats of millions of unique flora and fauna. Rainforest Coffee is encouraging farmers to dry their coffee without using firewood from the dwindling native forests as well as to grow their coffee without using pesticides to maximize production, but to grow premium-grade coffee to get higher prices.

Solar Coffee Televillage Project

Solar Coffee Televillage Program
Green Technology for
Green Coffee Barter Program

The highly successful "trade not aid" project in Latin America, sponsored by Nelson Rockefeller's International Basic Economy Corp. in the early '50s, is one of the models for Rainforest Coffee's "Green Technology for Green Coffee" Barter Program. RFC's sister company, SUN Utility Network, is working directly with Latin American and African coffee farmers and their cooperatives to help them finance solar energy applications. Whenever possible, SUN is bartering sustainable green technology for green coffee in order to eliminate the high interest rates (generally more than 30% per annum) charged by local financial institutions for loans to purchase equipment.