Coffee Technical terms
I am translating a description of coffee harvesting and processing, and a couple of terms have me stumped. For "beneficio humedo" y "beneficio seco" I'm willing to go with "water process" and "dry process," but I've never seen "beneficio" used in that way. Anyone have any other suggested translations?
Also, another process dissolves the membrane around the coffee fruit, and it's described as "cafe desmucilaginado," quite a mouthful. Anyone have an artful translation for that'
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My attempt at the translation for "desmucilaginado" is degummed. However I agree with James S, this term probably has no exact translation.
Webcites:
El beneficiado húmedo del café es un proceso donde el fruto de la planta de café al llegar a su estado maduro (café cereza) es transformado en café pergamino. Este proceso se desarrolla en 2 partes; la primera es la húmeda o despulpe y la segunda es el secado que termina con la obtención de café pergamino seco para su almacenamiento.
The processing firms accept the coffee beans, at competitive prices, at special collection centers set up in the coffee-growing regions of the country. The coffee is processed by the wet method, and the cherries are washed and dried, ending up as mucilage-free parchment coffee. This product is then stored and eventually will be come green coffee.
The "parchment coffee" referred to in the second citation above seems to be the "café pergamino" in the first citation above.
I also think that these Spanish terms may be used without being translated in some cases, as in the following.
"In the case of the coffee market of the state of Veracruz, the domain model was a description of the interactions between coffee producers and coffee buyers. It also described how the coffee is produced and distinguished three roles of producers for three steps of the coffee production (growers, owners of "beneficio seco" and owners of "beneficio húmedo")."
Other sites have the terms translated variously, as in:
Luis took us on a very interesting and informational tour of both the milling facilities: el beneficio seco (the dry mill) and el beneficio humedo (the wet mill).
If you want specific suggestions for translation, please give us the full context.
"hull" and "husk" (as nouns) refer to the hard shell/covering of fruits/grains/etc. "to hull" and "to husk" mean to remove that outer shell. so ... hulled/husked coffee (beans) To complicate matters further; we often add the prefix "de-" to verbs to signify "remove"/"undo". Thus, you could also say "dehulled"/"dehusked" which (for some people) would make cleared the notion of removing the outer covering.
