The Exploration Place‘s Adult Speaker Series will see an Associate Professor at the University of Northern BC talk about the science of coffee Monday night.
Luke Harris will take listeners on a journey from the farming of coffee beans in places like Ethiopia and Brazil, to the shipping process, to getting brewed in your mug every morning.
“Give people an overview of these different features of how it is that coffee is grown and handled before it even goes on a ship and is sent across the sea to warehouses and coffee roasters and so on,” he explains.
Harris will also touch on the chemical composition of coffee.
“Which is something that we’ve actually studied in my lab at UNBC a little bit,” he says.
“It can affect both the flavour of the coffee but also whether or not it affects your health, more or less.”
Harris says like red wine, coffee is a good source of antioxidants which can help combat aging effects on cells and tissues.
Harris will speak at seven o’clock. He says there will be a half-pound bag of roasted coffee given out as a prize to someone who will answer a trivia question at the end.
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