1.   At the same time, supplies of robusta beans, particularly from Vietnam, are currently adequate to meet such demand, analysts and traders said.

2.   Coffee futures on the London International Financial Futures and Options Exchange, which trades more bitter robusta beans, also dropped.

3.   Dark-roasted beans might contain more caffeine than light-roasted varieties, and robusta beans generally have more caffeine than arabica, Goldstein said.

4.   In LONDON, coffee rose as demand for lower-grade robusta beans increased ahead of the cold weather season.

5.   Some analysts said the shortage was triggered by commercial roasters replacing arabica beans with robusta beans when coffee prices soared last year.

6.   The unusually narrow gap reflects the relative scarcity of robusta beans.

7.   U.S. consumers prefer the mild-flavored arabica beans to the harsher robusta beans that make up the bulk of the Brazilian crop.

8.   Coffee prices regained some ground in early trading because of low quantities of robusta type beans available on the market.