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Include UIN
Degree must
be correct
Title must match title
found on title page.
Number of signatures required for doctoral students = director of research (adviser) + all voting
committee members who voted to pass the student at the final exam (defense) + the department head
Include UIN
Degree must
be correct
Title must match title
found on title page.
Number of signatures required for masters students = students adviser (at least one signature in the
adviser approval section or additional approval section must be that of a graduate faculty member) +
department head
Year of
degree
conferral
Name as it
appears on
title page
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BY
ANNE ELIZABETH GARVIE
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DISSERTATION
Submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements
for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Food Science and Human Nutrition
in the Graduate College of the
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 20xx
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8 inches
Urbana, Illinois
Doctoral Committee:
Professor Laurence Strongarm, Chair
Professor Joseph Green, Director of Research
Assistant Professor G.L. Foreman
Associate Professor Celia Barerra, Northern Illinois University
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BY
ANNE ELIZABETH GARVIE
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THESIS
Submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements
for the degree of Master of Science in Food Science and Human Nutrition
in the Graduate College of the
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 20xx
7.5 inches
8 inches
Urbana, Illinois
Adviser:
Professor Laurence Strongarm
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ABSTRACT
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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
This project would not have been possible without the support of
many people. Many thanks to my adviser, Laurence T. Strongarm, who read
my numerous revisions and helped make some sense of the confusion. Also
thanks to my committee members, Joseph Green, G.L. Foreman, and Celia
Barerra, who offered guidance and support. Thanks to the University of
Illinois Graduate College for awarding me a Dissertation Completion
Fellowship, providing me with the financial means to complete this project.
And finally, thanks to my husband, parents, and numerous friends who
endured this long process with me, always offering support and love.
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
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matter sections that
are placed after the
Contents (e.g., do not
list Abstract here).
PREFACE ................................................................................................... vi
CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION .....................................................................1
CHAPTER 2: LITERATURE REVIEW............................................................25
CHAPTER 3: METHODOLOGY...................................................................40
CHAPTER 4: RESULTS ...............................................................................69
CHAPTER 5: DISCUSSION .........................................................................89
CHAPTER 6: CONCLUSIONS ...................................................................100
REFERENCES ..........................................................................................104
APPENDIX A: QUESTIONNAIRE FOR PARTICIPANTS
OF THE SURVEY .....................................................................................110
TABLE OF CONTENTS
PREFACE ................................................................................................... vi
CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION ..................................................................... 1
CHAPTER 1
INTRODUCTION
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CHAPTER 2
LITERATURE REVIEW1
Coffee comes from a shrub-like tree that grows in almost any soil
and prefers the climate between the Tropics of Cancer and Capricorn. The
coffee tree bears flowers, ripe fruit, and unripe fruit at the same time. For
many, coffee is first and foremost the favored source of caffeine.
Two seeds or beans are found within the fruit of the coffee tree. The
first step after harvesting is to remove these beans from the fruit. This is
done in one of two ways; by dry processing or by wet processing. Wet
processing is much more expensive although it is not true that dry processing
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Reprinted, with permission, from A. Garvie, 2010, A Review of Studies on Coffee, Journal of Coffee
21(2): 145-161.
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The questionnaire used to gather some of the data that has been
presented in this thesis may be found in a supplemental file named
questionnaire.tif.
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