How Long Is Coffee bean? 9 mm (0.35 in) Compared

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Coffee bean (9 mm) drawn to scale beside a grain of rice (7 mm) and a large coin (2.4 cm) — Drawn to scale, from left to right: Grain of rice (7 mm), Coffee bean (9 mm) and Large coin (2.4 cm).

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How big is that, really?

A little longer than a grain of rice
About 2 would fit across a large coin
About 9 would fit end to end along a credit card
About 4.5× the width of a raindrop
About 18× the width of a grain of sand

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Facts about Coffee bean

A coffee bean is actually the seed inside a coffee fruit, often called a coffee cherry.

Source: National Coffee Association, “The Coffee Plant”; Encyclopaedia Britannica, “Coffee”

Food & Drink

Name	Size	Compared with Coffee bean
Rice grain	7 mm (0.28 in)	0.78×
Pea	8 mm (0.31 in)	0.89×
Chickpea	8 mm (0.31 in)	0.89×
Coffee bean	9 mm (0.35 in)	this page
Corn kernel	1.2 cm (0.47 in)	1.3×
Blueberry	1.5 cm (0.59 in)	1.7×
Sunflower seed	1.5 cm (0.59 in)	1.7×
Grape	2 cm (0.79 in)	2.2×
Cherry	2 cm (0.79 in)	2.2×
Raspberry	2 cm (0.79 in)	2.2×

Test your sense of scale

Which is bigger: Coffee bean or Rice grain?

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