Coffee in Hindi, Kannada, Tamil and other Indian languages

The quick answer to coffee in Hindi, Kannada, Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam, Marathi, Gujarati, Bengali and Punjabi is that most of those cells are empty, and that is the honest finding, not an oversight. The USDA record gives the English name of the dry powder; the one regional name on record is the Tamil word for the filter drink. The table shows exactly what the sources record; a dash means no name is recorded, and a name is never guessed or transliterated to fill a cell. The coffee guide has the drink, its names and its nutrition.

Source: USDA FoodData Central record 171893 (English and scientific name only; no Indian-language names in source). — means no name recorded in the source.

Tamil ‘Kaapi’: Indian filter coffee - Wikipedia.

In English, the name the USDA record uses for coffee is 'Beverages, coffee, instant, regular, powder': the dry instant coffee powder whose per-100 g figures are on coffee calories per 100g. The botanical name is not recorded in that record, and no other record carries one, so the botanical cell stays empty too, rather than carry a name from memory. The record itself describes the dry instant coffee powder, the closest entry the database has to the coffee sold here, and it carries no name in any other language.

Coffee in Kannada, Marathi, Gujarati, Bengali, Punjabi, Odia, Assamese, Telugu, Malayalam, Urdu and Sanskrit is not on record: the standard Indian food-composition tables do not list coffee at all, and the USDA record gives the English name only. So no name is shown for those languages, instead of transliterating coffee into each script and calling it a recorded name. The one regional name on record, the Tamil word used of the filter drink, is shown in the table above, and it is the only one vouched for. Where a name cannot be pointed to in the records, it is left out rather than invented; that is the rule every cell follows.

Chicory is the one extra to watch for on a coffee label: this site's coffee contains no chicory, preservatives, additives or artificial flavouring, so the pack is pure coffee, nothing blended in. Instant coffee is the other lookalike on the shelf, a different product made differently from the same starting bean; filter coffee vs instant coffee separates them. Whole beans versus ground powder is the third common mix-up, answered on coffee powder vs beans.

The coffee this site sells grows in Coorg, Karnataka, among the misty hills that make the region a well-known coffee-growing area. The plants are grown by organic farmers beneath the shade of native trees, which lets each coffee cherry mature slowly, and the cherries are handpicked at peak ripeness, washed and naturally sun-dried before the roast. From there the beans go to a small-batch roast and into the pack, whole or ground.

What is coffee?

Coffee is the drink brewed from roasted coffee beans: the beans are roasted, ground and steeped in hot water, and the same ground beans go by the name coffee powder. In South India the everyday cup is often filter coffee, brewed through a two-part metal filter and mixed with hot milk and sugar.

What is filter coffee?

Filter coffee is the South Indian coffee made by dripping boiling water through coffee powder packed in a two-part metal filter; the dark decoction that drips through is mixed with hot milk and sugar and served in a tumbler with a bowl. It is the same coffee, made the slow way.

What is coffee beans?

Coffee beans are the roasted beans of the coffee plant sold whole, before grinding. They are the same coffee as the powder, one step earlier, and are kept whole so the grinding can happen only when needed, which keeps the coffee fresher for longer.

What is coffee powder?

Coffee powder is the ground form of coffee: the roasted beans milled to a fine, even texture and packed ready to brew, with nothing added. The fine grind suits the French Press, Moka Pot, drip and pour-over, and no further grinding is needed.