Kosher coffee. (issues in getting coffee certified as kosher, evaluating market for such a product; includes related article on helpful organizations)

Tea & Coffee Trade Journal, November, 1994 by Wachsman, Goldie

Myths have a long shelf life, and misconceptions about kosher foods, and their consumers, are no exception. Fact or fiction: a single-origin bean, green or roasted, is inherently kosher. True or false: kosher food is blessed by the rabbi.

The first is "fact," according to Rabbi David Heber of the STAR-K of Baltimore and Rabbi Yosef Wikler of the magazine Kashrus. Roasters and blenders of pure coffee beans from any plantation around the globe do not need rabbinic certification to prove their product is kosher.

The second is "false." Kosher food is neither blessed nor cursed by the rabbi, but checked for nonkosher ingredients. Additives, from decaffeinating agents to flavors, do require kosher certification. A roaster featuring flavored as well as...

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