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This reflected in the bitterness intensity scores (4.59-5.25) and the overall liking scores (4.42-5.53) and from the comments of the participants who indicated that the peanut samples were overroasted. The liking score of the control treatment and IR 1 was lower for the 30-day stored blanched peanuts, while the score improved a little for the IR2 (30-day hold).

Research helps when it debunks, steering us away from conventional wisdoms that are really only overroasted anecdotes.

It is difficult to roast large beans along with small, light or broken beans, as the small ones tend to become overroasted. Very small bits of broken bean may even burn up altogether.

"All the Starbucks coffees were severely overroasted. They had a bitter, charred taste that's more appropriate for espresso," Consumer Reports said--an especially unkind cut for a coffee company that touts the virtues of longer roasting to bring out the beans' full flavor.