How to Use robusta in a Sentence

robusta

noun

• The bulk of beans coming out of Vietnam are of the robusta species.
  — Eleanore Park, WSJ, 20 June 2019
• Most producers of robusta coffee, used in Nescafe, ship the product through the canal.
  — Paul Davidson, USA TODAY, 27 Mar. 2021
• Where to drink Saigon loves its coffee (Vietnam is the largest exporter of robusta in the world).
  — Marianna Cerini, Condé Nast Traveler, 24 Dec. 2019
• An espresso martini takes on the bold profile of robusta beans typically used in ca phe sua da.
  — Bao Ong, Bon Appetit Magazine, 23 Sep. 2025
• Shohet believes, then and now, that high-quality robusta can compete with arabica.
  — Dallas News, 7 Feb. 2023
• In a blind taste test with samples of arabica and robusta as controls, the stenophylla easily held its own.
  — Nathaniel Scharping, Discover Magazine, 7 Oct. 2022
• There was a single café doling out bitter robusta brews and a small store dealing in pickled chicken feet and cans of off-brand Pringles.
  — Chris Schalkx, Condé Nast Traveler, 16 Mar. 2026
• For the dairy adverse, coconut milk makes a refreshing addition to the nuttiness of a robusta brew.
  — An Uong, Bon Appétit, 8 Oct. 2021
• What sets Vietnamese coffee apart from the rest of the world is that 90% of the coffee beans are of the robusta variety.
  — Katlyn Moncada, Better Homes & Gardens, 13 July 2021
• Arabica fills specialty cafes, and costs more than robusta, which fuels instant coffees and some espressos.
  — Dawn MacKeen, New York Times, 13 Feb. 2020
• Guatemala and Nicaragua are expanding their robusta plantations.
  — Julie Wernau, WSJ, 16 Dec. 2018
• The beans used here are imported directly from Vietnam and are a mixture of robusta and arabica beans.
  — Anna Ben Yehuda Rahmanan, Fortune, 3 Aug. 2019
• Farming this way makes stronger robusta and eventually, Nguyen said, tastier coffee.
  — Nhung Nguyen, Washington Post, 15 May 2023
• Vietnam is the world’s biggest producer of robusta used in espresso and instant coffee, and delays could cut shipments in coming months.
  — Mai Ngoc Chau, Bloomberg.com, 18 Oct. 2020
• The tuber’s sweetness plays well with nutty robusta beans, while its striking pigment adds a beautiful violet layer.
  — Eleanore Park, WSJ, 20 June 2019
• Because more farmers in the area have been shifting to robusta in recent years due to price and ease of growing, Weintraub writes, this is an important finding.
  — Julissa Treviño, Smithsonian, 21 Feb. 2018
• The disease reemerged in the 1970s on robusta coffee, spreading through eastern and central Africa.
  — Lily Peck, The Conversation, 17 Feb. 2026
• In terms of flavor profile, the robusta variety boasts nearly two times the caffeine content of its counterpart and gives off a nutty, full, dark, chocolaty taste.
  — Fortune, 29 Sep. 2019
• These included different regions of the genome across strains specific to arabica and robusta coffee.
  — Lily Peck, The Conversation, 17 Feb. 2026
• And since the coffee wasn’t as strong as arabica or robusta (liberica seems to have a lower caffeine content), the experience felt a bit like sipping tea.
  — Alex Mayyasi, Saveur, 10 Sep. 2025
• The coffee bean comes in two basic families, arabica and the inferior (though easier to grow) robusta.
  — Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 20 Apr. 2020
• Leaf rust, a fungal disease that affects both arabica and robusta plants, is also devastating the industry.
  — Marvin G Perez, Bloomberg.com, 28 Apr. 2017
• But in the 1950s, robusta coffee was introduced to Sierra Leone by the British.
  — Rebecca Cairns, CNN, 29 Apr. 2021
• Futures for robusta coffee, which is often used to make espresso, recently jumped as high as $2,024 per tonne, their highest level in four years.
  — Julia Horowitz, CNN, 30 Aug. 2021
• The two most common varieties are Coffea arabica and Coffea robusta.
  — Alexandra Emanuelli, Southern Living, 27 Nov. 2025
• Already, in Vietnam, the market for quality robusta has exploded.
  — Alina Simone, The Atlantic, 11 Nov. 2022
• Dang and Choi have visited coffee farms where drought has killed off arabica and robusta but left liberica trees hale and healthy—a promising sign for the bean’s commercial future.
  — Alex Mayyasi, Saveur, 10 Sep. 2025
• Unfortunately, robusta is uniformly acknowledged to not taste that great.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 13 Sep. 2017
• Arabica makes up about 60 percent of global coffee supplies, with lower-quality robusta beans accounting for the rest.
  — Marcy Nicholson, The Christian Science Monitor, 20 Oct. 2017
• Single-origin robusta coffee beans have been inaccessible to the general coffee consumer until now.
  — An Uong, Bon Appétit, 8 Oct. 2021