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Initial Water Activity for Green Coffee

Data over time

2 min readJun 13, 2025

Over the past year, I have been using the DiFluid Omix to measure water activity on green coffee, and I wanted to take a look to see how water activity changed over time. I had a few coffees that had a month or two between measurements.

I looked at starting water activity and ending water activity to see how it would change over time. Aside from some noise, the water activity didn’t seem to change much.

I also separated out the coffees based on general geography to see if there was a bias in the data, but there wasn’t.

I’d like the measure water activity more frequently over a longer period of time to see when water activity really falls off and how that impacts taste.

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Robert McKeon Aloe
Robert McKeon Aloe

Written by Robert McKeon Aloe

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