Coffee Bean Supplier Black Pepper Supplier and Cacao Beans Philippines

 Mind Grains Trading

Business Background

Mind Grains Shop is a small business startup headed by Jerome Cabrera. We are a distributor of grains, engaged in buying and selling of coffee beans, black pepper grains, and cacao. Our selection of quality grains are sourced from the nearby province of Batangas. Our target area is within the National Capital Region in the Philippines. Since our launch in December of 2011, we have completed business dealings mainly over the Internet.

We strive to maintain a high quality in the grains we offer. Even as a startup, we are able to provide a large monthly supply of grains to our customers. To promote our business, we have placed advertisements and listings online, primarily at http://www.sulit.com.ph. We are looking to expand our business in 2012.

Delivery / Meet Ups

1. The product is delivered free from the area of Las Piñas, Makati and Alabang (Depending upon the quantity)
2.  The product can be shipped anywhere locally and additional shipping fee will be added upon the deal
3. Meet ups will have no extra charge from the following malls (Alabang Town Center, SM Southmall, SM Centerpoint, Starmall Las Piñas, SM Mall of Asia)
4. The product is delivered free from any company or bldg in Makati area

Payments

• Payments can be done through cash or bank account deposit (Banco De Oro)
• Orders must be inquired 1 day before the delivery
• 50% downpayments are accepted for first time buyers
• For large amount of deals, we can meet personally in my office or house for the security of your deal.
  
• Additional 200 pesos is added for transportation fee if the order is below 10 kilo
  

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Email: spex_appeal@yahoo.com (Always online on YM every weekdays)

Contact Numbers:

Globe: 0916 103 9413

  Smart: 0909 342 4431

  Sun Cellular: 0943 270 7116

Telephone: 775 1760

Products and price

• Note: For large amount buyers, I can send you a sample of my products through LBC

Coffee Beans

Robusta coffee (Coffea canephora; syn. Coffea robusta) is a variety of coffee which has its origins in central and western sub-Saharan Africa. It is a species of flowering plant in the Rubiaceae family. Though widely known as Coffea robusta, the plant is scientifically identified as Coffea canephora, which has two main varieties - Robusta and Nganda.It is mostly grown in Vietnam, where French colonists introduced it in the late 19th century, and also in Africa and Brazil, where it is often called conillon. Approximately 20% of the coffee produced in the world is robusta

• Robusta Coffee Beans (Roasted)
  
• 1Kilo = 280 Pesos (Single Order)
• 1Sack (50 Kilo) = 14,000

• 1 Kilo = 250 Pesos (Bulk orders)
• 1 Sack (50 Kilo) = 12,500

• Robusta Coffee Beans (Green Beans)
  
• 1Kilo = 220 Pesos (Single Order)
• 1Sack (50 Kilo) = 11,000

• 1 Kilo = 190 Pesos (Bulk orders)
• 1 Sack (50 Kilo) = 9,500

Coffee Beans Excelsa was first discovered in 1904. This hardy plant is well known for its disease and drought resistant properties.
Coffee Excelsa is similar to Coffee Liberica in appearance. The plant has thin, rounded leaves with a smooth edge. When these leaves first form, they are a burnt reddish violet color. They turn to a green color as they mature, though some leaves still have violet accents.
It produces white flowers with four to five leaves per flower. The cherries it produces are oval shaped but slightly flattened. The medium sized coffee beans are formed in clusters.

• Excelsa Coffee Beans (Roasted)
  
• 1Kilo = 290 (Single Order)
• 1 Sack (50 Kilo) = 14,500

• 1 Kilo = 260 (Bulk Order)
• 1 Sack (50 Kilo) = 13,000

• Excelsa Coffee Beans (Green Beans)
  
• 1Kilo = 250 (Single Order)
• 1 Sack (50 Kilo) = 12,500

• 1 Kilo = 220 (Bulk Order)
• 1 Sack (50 Kilo) = 11,000

The Barako coffee is the Philippine term for coffee produced in Batangas. This Philippine coffee is of the Liberica variety. Liberica is rare and exotic, grown only in 3 countries out of about 70 coffee producing countries in the world. The first Barako tree was a a cutting from Brazil planted in the 1800s in Barangay Pinagtung-Ulan, Lipa City, Batangas by the Macasaet family, (umm… my ancestors?)  Barako coffee has strong taste, flavor, and has a distinctively pungent aroma. Now, all coffee grown in Batangas is generically called Barako – Matapang!

• Liberica Coffee (Roasted) - Kapeng Barako
  
• 1 Kilo = 300 (Single Order)
• 1 Sack (50 Kilo) = 15,500

• 1 Kilo = 270 (Bulk Order)
• 1 Sack (50 Kilo) = 13,500

• Liberica Coffee (Green Beans) - Kapeng Barako
  
• 1 Kilo = 260 (Single Order)
• 1 Sack (50 Kilo) = 13,000

• 1 Kilo = 230 (Bulk Order)
• 1 Sack (50 Kilo) = 11,500

Coffee Beans Arabica There are several different coffee species, two main species are cultivated today.  Coffea arabica, known as Arabica coffee, accounts for 75-80 percent of the world's production.  Coffea canephora, known as Robusta coffee, accounts for about 20 percent and differs from the Arabica coffees in terms of taste. While Robusta coffee beans are more robust than the Arabica plants, but produces an inferior tasting beverage with a higher caffeine content.  Both the Robusta and Arabica coffee plant can grow to heights of 10 meters if not pruned, but producing countries will maintain the coffee plant at a height reasonable for easy harvesting.

• Arabica Coffee (Roasted)
  
• 1 Kilo = 370 (Single Order)
• 1 Sack (50 Kilo) = 18,500

• 1 Kilo = 350 (Bulk Order)
• 1 Sack (50 Kilo) = 17,500

• Arabica Coffee (Green Beans)
  
• 1 Kilo = 320 (Single Order)
• 1 Sack (50 Kilo) = 16,000

• 1 Kilo = 280 (Bulk Order)
• 1 Sack (50 Kilo) = 14,000

Black Pepper

Pepper has been used as a spice in India since prehistoric times. Pepper is native to India and has been known to Indian cooking since at least 2000 BCE. J. Innes Miller notes that while pepper was grown in southern Thailand and in Malaysia, its most important source was India, particularly the Malabar Coast, in what is now the state of Kerala.Peppercorns were a much-prized trade good, often referred to as "black gold" and used as a form of commodity money. The term "peppercorn rent" still exists today.

The ancient history of black pepper is often interlinked with (and confused with) that of long pepper, the dried fruit of closely related Piper longum. The Romans knew of both and often referred to either as just "piper". In fact, it was not until the discovery of the New World and of chile peppers that the popularity of long pepper entirely declined. Chile peppers, some of which when dried are similar in shape and taste to long pepper, were easier to grow in a variety of locations more convenient to Europe.

After the Middle Ages, virtually all of the black pepper found in Europe, the Middle East, and North Africa was from India's Malabar region. By the 16th century, due to the Portuguese influence, pepper was also being grown in Java, Sunda, Sumatra, Madagascar, Malaysia, and elsewhere in Southeast Asia, but these areas traded mainly with China, or used the pepper locally.Ports in the Malabar area also served as a stop-off point for much of the trade in other spices from farther east in the Indian Ocean.

Black pepper, along with other spices from India and lands farther east, changed the course of world history. It was in some part the preciousness of these spices that led to the Portuguese efforts to find a sea route to India during the age of discovery and consequently to the Portuguese colonial occupation of that country, as well as the European discovery and colonisation of the Americas.

• Black Pepper (1st Class)
  
• 1Kilo = 400 Pesos (Single Order)
  
• 1Sack (50 Kilo) = 20,000

• 1 Kilo = 380 Pesos (Bulk Order)
• 1 Sack (50 Kilo) = 19,000

• Black Pepper (2nd Class)
  
• 1Kilo = 390 Pesos (Single Order)
  
• 1Sack (50 Kilo) = 19,500

• 1 Kilo = 370 Pesos (Bulk Order)
• 1 Sack (50 Kilo) = 18,500

Cacao Beans

The cacao tree is native to the Americas. It may have originated in the foothills of the Andes in the Amazon and Orinoco basins of South America, current day Venezuela, where today, examples of wild cacao still can be found. However, it may have had a larger range in the past, evidence for which may be obscured because of its cultivation in these areas long before, as well as after, the Spanish arrived. It was first cultivated by the Olmecs at least 1500 BC in Central America.

The cocoa bean was a common currency throughout Mesoamerica before the Spanish conquest.

Cacao trees will grow in a limited geographical zone, of approximately 20 degrees to the north and south of the Equator. Nearly 70% of the world crop is grown in West Africa.

Cocoa was an important commodity in pre-Columbian Mesoamerica. A Spanish soldier who was part of the conquest of Mexico by Hernán Cortés tells that when Moctezuma II, emperor of the Aztecs, dined, he took no other beverage than chocolate, served in a golden goblet. Flavored with vanilla or other spices, his chocolate was whipped into a froth that dissolved in the mouth. It is reported that no fewer than 50 portions each day may have been consumed by Moctezuma II, and 2000 more by the nobles of his court.

Chocolate was introduced to Europe by the Spaniards, and became a popular beverage by the mid 17th century. They also introduced the cacao tree into the West Indies and the Philippines.

The cacao plant was first given its botanical name by Swedish natural scientist Carl Linnaeus in his original classification of the plant kingdom, who called it Theobroma ("food of the gods") cacao.

• Cacao Beans
  
• 1Kilo = 200 Pesos (Single Order)
  
• 1Sack (50 Kilo) = 10,000

• 1 Kilo = 170 Pesos (Bulk Order)
• 1 Sack = 8,500