The present work aimed to give a sensorial evaluation to the coffee (Coffea arabica L.) beverage and to classify the shelled cherry-colored type coffee submitted to different packaging during storage. The experiment was installed entirely at random in a factorial outline 2x5x5, with three repetitions. Five packages were tested, with and without atmosphere modification, in five evaluation times, in two lots of shelled cherry-colored coffee, with one dried and the other processed. The impermeable packages (nylon sacks, nylon sacks with 40% of CO2 and foil vacuum packs) presented a capacity of preserving the quality of the drink of the shelled cherry-colored coffee, throughout the duration and conditions of the experiment. The coffee conditioned in permeable packing (jute sacks and jute sacks with ground coffee shells) presented sensorial alterations that depreciated the quality of the coffee. In the physical classification, the type of coffee didn't suffer alteration in the several packages used during the experiment.
Coffee; parchment coffee; storage; quality; Coffea arabica L
