A Word About Cheap Coffee... Before roasting, coffee beans are green and resemble split peas. These green beans, while as hard as stones, still contain a lot of moisture. During the roasting the outer layer of the coffee bean comes off ... this is the "skin" of the coffee bean, also called the "chaff ". During the roasting process the coffee beans lose about 16%-20% of their moisture, depending on how dark the coffee beans are to be roasted. Gourmet roasters discard the chaff; cheap coffee roasters do not. Cheap coffee roasters collect the chaff and compress it into pellets then add the pellets back to the beans thus enabling the weight in the bags to be higher. Just open up a bag of cheap coffee beans and pour some into your hand ... those teeny tiny things that look like midget coffee beans are really the chaff added back to increase the weight. This allows the chaff/coffee bean mix to be sold cheap while at the same time keeping the profits as high as possible. Since the chaff, the skin, is part of the coffee bean, it is legal to say, "100% Pure Coffee." They just can not and do not say "100% Coffee Beans". Also, since 16%-20% of the moisture of beans is lost in roasting, it is legal for 16%-20% of the moisture to be added back to the coffee via "mist spraying". This is done by "mist spraying" the beans or the ground coffee and ground chaff as it goes down the conveyor belts. All of this is legal. You will always get exactly what you pay for ... this is no bargain. All major coffee companies have their coffee roasters with a water line hookup and all major coffee companies have chaff collector hookups to their coffee roasters. Just visit their plants. Some major coffee companies even add ground chicory to ground coffee; some add beans and other fillers to the ground coffee they sell. Hayes' coffees contain no fillers, no chaff, no added water... Ever! We use no Brazils and we use no Robustas. Guaranteed.