ÖKO-TEST tested ground coffee from various manufacturers. We tell you which one is the best and which well-known brand disappoints.
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Coffee should cheer you up and of course taste good too. But between an aromatic, full roasted taste and a bitter-tasting disappointment, there is a wide range on the shelves of discounters and supermarkets.
In an examination of 20 medium-strength ground coffees by ÖKO-TEST magazine, the taste rating ranged from “very good” to “poor” (Issue 11/2021).
The study shows that well-known brand names are just as little a reliable indicator of the quality of the roasted coffee as the price. But the sensors were not the biggest point of criticism. Because twelve products – and thus the majority – impressed with good or very good partial marks in terms of smell, taste and balance. You can read the detailed test for a fee at ÖKO-TEST.
contaminants in coffee
The magazine had much more to complain about when it came to pollutants. She assessed the acrylamide values measured for 13 products as elevated.
However, ÖKO-TEST sets a strict benchmark: In the study, it was considered higher if the applicable EU guideline values for acrylamide in roasted coffee were exhausted by more than half. The substance forms when the coffee beans are roasted and is considered a possible carcinogen.
The affected products include the following six coffees:
- Alnatura ground coffee
- Good & cheap gold aromatic roast coffee
- Melitta Selection Classic
- Jacobs coronation
- Dallmayr Classic
- Tchibo The hearty one
- Eilles coffee gourmet
The latter scored only “inadequate” in the test overall and failed. The product is also not convincing in terms of cultivation and transparency.
Test winner: Only a coffee scores “good”.
In all test criteria, i.e. taste, ingredients, coffee cultivation and transparency, only one product was good or very good: “Fair pounds organic coffee from fair trade, ground” from Gepa (to Greenist). It was also the best coffee out of the six organic products in the test.
Among the conventional roasted coffees, “Amaroy Extra, ground roasted coffee” from Aldi Süd (to Aldi) was at the top. It scored “good” in terms of taste and ingredients and was rated “satisfactory” for coffee cultivation and transparency.
The article was first published by the colleagues at CHIP.de
