The coffee beans you grind are actually seeds from a bright red fruit called a "coffee cherry." So, when you brew a cup, you are basically making a warm drink out of fruit pits!
Most people think of coffee as its own special thing, like a bean or a legume. But in the world of plants, coffee is much closer to a snack you'd find in a fruit bowl.
Before the beans are brown and crunchy, they live inside a small, bright red fruit called a coffee cherry.
To make coffee, farmers harvest the cherries, remove the sweet fruit skin (which is sometimes dried and turned into a tea called Cascara), and take out the seeds. These seeds are then dried, roasted, and ground into the powder we use every morning.
If you define "fruit juice" as the liquid extracted from a fruit or its parts, then your morning brew is technically a hot infusion of fruit seeds. It's a "pit juice" that gives you energy!
