Kyoto Coffee

www.kyotocoffee.ca

About us

We love coffee.  We also love the idea that coffee can provide trade – not aid – to many farmers around the world.  Our company focus is on providing organic, planet friendly coffee.  Where possible, we buy fairly traded or community conscious coffee. There are SO many AWESOME programs out there!  Our earth wins, since no chemicals are used and in many cases the rainforest is used to help grow the coffee and not torn down. The farmer wins because we pay more for that planet friendly bean. You win because you have fresh coffee today, with no chemicals and surprisingly, isn’t as expensive as you would think. Your children win, because we aim to preserve their future.

About coffee

Coffee is a cultural mainstay. It is the last affordable luxury.  It is our most social beverage. Whether in the office or at home, at the ball field or a hockey game, with dinner or a doughnut, it is part of our social fabric. Our planet drinks over 1.5 billion cups of coffee per day.  Too few of these cups of coffee are organic, but those numbers are on the rise.  With such huge numbers of people drinking coffee daily, the impact on our earth is massive, since it takes one tree, one year to produce one pound.  Canadian’s in particular are increasingly more aware of the difference between a caffeine fix, and a good cup of joe.  As for roasting… if your coffee smells burnt, and looks burnt…. It’s burnt! Dark roast coffee is not the same as burnt.  Burning coffee is done on purpose to mask bad flavour. Are you drinking “flavoured” coffee? Most flavoured coffees use bad tasting coffee, and dress it up with syrups.

Good coffee has all the complexity of great wine for pennies a cup.  We never add flavour, colour or preservatives.  We never add anything but coffee beans to our coffee.  Read labels and read between the lines.  If coffee says organic – make sure it says 100% organic. If it says it's attached to an ethical program, it should be pure and true to the farm it supports.  All our coffee is 100% Arabica, 100% organic, 100% coffee.  If our coffee isn’t fairly traded, I seek out other means to give back to the country of origin.  Unfortunately, ethical coffee isn’t available in every coffee region – but community coffee is just as important and accomplishes the same thing.  No marketing scam, no playing with numbers. Fresh means fresh.  You can smell the freshness through our recyclable bags.  We just don’t believe our coffee bags and valves should take 5000 years in a landfill to break down.

About nutrition

But what about all the reports that say coffee isn’t good for you? New evidence shows that coffee is actually highly antioxidant.  This means it carries away free radicals believed to start the aging and cancer process. It is implicated in the PREVENTION of liver cancer, type 2 diabetes, gallstone disease, kidney stones, cirrhosis, migraine headaches and POSSIBLY Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s.  Recent studies have shown that for those consuming less than 5 cups per day; it does not add cardiac risk even for those with cardiac arrhythmia or clogged arteries. In fact, no science has managed to prove that coffee is bad for you. Arabica beans are naturally up to ½ the caffeine of its Robusta cousin. Typically per cup Arabica has 95 mg and Robusta has 150 mg. We can reduce that further by dark roasting your order.  We can also offer ½ caf blends that cut that further to approximately 50 mg per cup (less if dark roasted). Our decaf coffee is approximately .03 mg… decaf with flavour you never thought possible.

Many people are aware that our food is injected, processed and altered.  Most of us know that our daily food consumption includes many suspected cancer causing additives.  It’s also common to have things added to our coffee, that isn’t coffee beans.  Up to 30% of ground coffee, isn’t coffee at all.  If coffee is mechanically picked, the machines don’t pick just the ripe cherries. Machines typically strip the bushes including unripened fruit, leaves, bark and even branches and dirt find their way in. No wonder you need to drink your coffee with cream and sugar! Conventional coffee is grown using DDT, Benzene Hexachloride and Malathion to name a few.  DDT for one was banned in Canada many years ago.  It’s a cheap pesticide.  Cheap coffee is grown and harvested cheaply. That awful aftertaste in your coffee … isn’t coffee.

In Organic coffee only natural farming is allowed.  Ethical trade offers an honest living to farmers in need.

These farmers use the rainforest where possible to help on the farm.  The birds that live in the forest eat the bugs. No bugs mean no chemicals to kill bugs or pollute the water.  If growers use the rainforest to grow the coffee, the trees clean the air. We all need clean air.

Did we mention how incredible the coffee tastes?

Feel good about great coffee.

Organic • Ethical • Fresh Roasted • Bags of Coffee for Sale (ground on site)
• Freshly Brewed Cups of Coffee Available at the Market
Phone: (705) 745-7329
Web: www.kyotocoffee.ca
Email: tracy@kyotocoffee.ca