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Oh! Hey guys!
So the coffee that are the not coffee that I have today is Maya nut and
and Maya nut is
Y'know how you been seeing it like described online is it's like -- it's not coffee
It's not chocolate. It's not tea. It's like its own thing
So people drink this but they --Where does it come from?
[Wheeze laugh]
It's from the Central American rainforest.
It's harvested wild in Guatemala in the Maya biosphere reserve
That's a lot of dietary fiber
that's the [inaudible with laugh]
Hold onto your hats guys. This has -- oh my god
this has...
76 percent of your dietary fiber for the day
The serving size is a hundred grams though, so
The serving's for probably 4 and a half
Yes, I think that might not be for the coffee. But if you like just like eat it.
--And 350 calories.
This is very bizarre
Uhhhhh
That might not be true
Per
100 grams... So if you ate like
1/4 of this packet, which is a lot.
--Why would they put that on the package?
I don't know
9 grams of sugar that's 9 grams of protein. --Do you bake with it? This is gotta just be a lot of calcium.
Oh, it says here that it can be uhhhh
Enjoyed as a roasted coffee alternate or as a raw flour to boost the nutrients of baked goods.
--Ohhh --Okay!
So that's that's the thing. Yes people you can actually use the the grounds in baking
--Okay If you really want to like poop a lot
So here it is my not-coffee
It says to brew it just like coffee: brew and serve
You can use a drip coffee maker or a French press -- I've got a French press
It says in a 6 to 8 cup press: put one tablespoon per 2 cups of water. This is 4 cups
So then I want... This is up -- This is like 5 cup-worths of coffee. So it's gonna be maybe a little bit strong
Let it steep for three minutes? Oh God. Okay. It's like I already done oh
There's no resistance there, okay
-- is there any color?
Yeah, it doesn't look like too dark. -- It looks like it's like a light brew coffee. --It looks like diner coffee.
Yeah
Let's give it a whiff
It smells like coffee -- Yeah, does smell like coffee.
Hmm. I think it's -- I don't know if there's caffeine in it
That's something we should probably ch-- I don't think so. So
Cheers!
--Well, it's it tastes like nuts... It tastes like pecan shells
Yeah. A nutty coffee
--There really tastes like botanic flavor of pecans.
Mm-hmm
It's got the bitterness that coffee would have.
--I mean, I kinda like it.
I like it too.
-- it tastes sort of like instant coffee
--If you used like a lot of instant coffee and made it really strong.
Yeah
I think if you-- -- I don't love that stuff, but this does taste like it.
Yeah, it's like a little thin
Which is what I think makes me think instant coffee
Why that make sense. --Yeah
I think that if it was made with more it would be a really strong in its flavor
--Yeah, I got... I did get a very strong nut flavor. It really tastes like eating walnuts or pecans
It's got like a little bit of like a whole kind of flavor. --Yeah
but not in a bad way, if that's
possible. It tastes nutty but it's it's not it's not bad
--Should try it with milk and sugar? I think so!
It looks like coffee --It sure does
Coulda fooled me. And it is caffeine free. I looked it up. There's no caffeine in here.
So already impressed
--Tastes more like coffee. --Yeah, it does. Yeah, that's pretty passable.
It's pretty good. --Yeah Tastes like coffee
It tastes like a-- like a-- maybe there's like a hazelnut going on
Mm-hmm. --There is a little bit of that
You know, like that's like a flavored coffee but slightly flavored. --Mm-hmm.
--What was
tipping me off that it wasn't coffee before was that it did taste, as you said, kind of tannic and like
really uh
like whole or something.
It tasted... It tasted it off in that. --Yeah, the whole flavors pretty hidden --But this is... It's covered by the sugar
Yeah, I think you're right. I feel like it's a little bit-- it's weaker and then regular coffee would be. It's not as strong
--but that might just be how we made it --You could make it stronger but you'd have to make sure you had some sugar with it at least because
It's too bitter on its own
If you don't put the sugar in it to make it very strong
If I wanted a cup of coffee
but it was like midnight or something and I need to go to sleep, uh this would do it
Yeah, this would this would satisfy that urge.
Let's give it a rating on
a level of
One to five coffee beans. Where one coffee bean
well where zero coffee beans is not a cup of coffee and five coffee beans is like
exactly like a cup of coffee. How many beans would you give this not coffee?
-- I would give it a four and a half, actually. It's pretty convincing. -That's generous
--I think it tastes like coffee, but I
wouldn't be fooled unless there was enough milk and sugar in it
So I'd say I'd say four
If we're talking straight up like brewed coffee
For me it gets a four. If we're talking instant coffee. I've give this a five. Like absolutely.
--Yeah, instant coffee doesn't really taste like coffee all the time, even though it is coffee
--Yeah! It gets a four from us. --Four.
But it's pretty good. I I would totally drink this. it's not it's
Maybe not 100% like coffee, but it's very close. --I think this is the closest agreement and a verdict that we've had so far.
I think so. --Yeah
--Well done. Yeah. Good job
Maya nuts, Raymond seeds, or whatever you are
So if you're looking for a coffee alternative where you don't want caffeine, but you want something satisfy that urge
This is really up there. Yeah, it's probably like one like straight out of the bag
This is probably the most convincing one we've had
If not, we'll have to like think about it, but like pretty close to it
--Blended with something else
You might be able to make a really convincing coffee. Yeah, put a little bit of chicory in here maybe
--Oh, yeah, that would do it. Yeah, it'll make a little bit darker but like even on its own like it's that's pretty good
So I think that's about it. So we'll see you next time
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