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🇨🇷Costa Rica

Costa Rica — Whole Foods Market

Our reviewPurchased by us
TagsCosta RicanullLight roastOrangeAlmondMilk ChocolateArabicaSingle originWhole Foods MarketOwned by AmazonOur reviewPurchased by us

A bright, easygoing grocery store light roast: orange zest up front, almond sweetness behind it, and a soft chocolate finish. A very good everyday Costa Rica, held back from a higher mark only because the bag cannot tell us who grew it.

Our rating
4.3 out of Five Stars
4.3/5 on our star rating scale
🇨🇷Costa RicaLight roast
Brand
Whole Foods Market
Who owns the brand
A large corporation — Amazon
Roaster website
Visit website
Country
🇨🇷Costa Rica
Region
Costa Rica
Town
—
Farm / Station
—
Farmer / Producer
—
Species
Arabica
Type
Single origin
Grade
Not specified
Variety
null
Process
—
Roast
Light
Tasting notes
Orange, Almond, Milk Chocolate
Fermentation
—
Drying
—
Product page
Roaster's site
Date reviewed
Oct 25, 2026
Why some details are blank
  • region idThe bag names Costa Rica only; no growing region is stated.
  • farm idNo farm is named on the bag and none is published by the brand.
  • producer idNo producer or cooperative is named on the bag or in the brand's public materials.
  • variety idThe bag states 100% Arabica without naming a variety.
  • process idThe processing method is not stated on the bag.
  • roaster idThe roasting partner for the private label program is not publicly disclosed.
  • roast dateNo roast date is printed on the bag.
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The transparency chain

FROM THE BAG
BACK TO THE LAND.

Every link we could verify, traced in one place. Follow the chain as far as it goes — when the industry doesn't disclose a link, we say so instead of guessing.

  1. 01
    The name on the bag
    Costa Rica — Whole Foods Market
  2. 02
    The brand
    Whole Foods Market
  3. 03
    The roaster
    Not disclosed
  4. 04
    The variety
    null
  5. 05
    The farm
    Not disclosed
  6. 06
    The farmer
    Not disclosed
  7. 07
    The region
    Costa Rica
  8. 08
    The country
    🇨🇷Costa Rica
From the producer

The coffee is ethically sourced from farms located within Costa Rica.

From the roaster

Whole Foods Market produces this light roast coffee, focusing on small-batch roasting techniques to ensure peak flavor for the consumer.

Why this coffee is noteworthy

This coffee is a single-origin offering from Whole Foods Market that is roasted in small batches to maintain freshness and flavor quality.

Our review

The full tasting

The first sip

This coffee leads with orange, and it is a genuinely pretty brightness, more zest than juice, sitting on top of a light, tea like body. The first cup reminded us why light roast Costa Rican coffee has such a good reputation: nothing muddy, nothing heavy, just a clean, cheerful acidity that gets out of the way fast. It is an easy drinker from the very first sip, and it does not need milk or sugar to behave.

What we tasted

The bag says bright orange, sweet nut and chocolate, and the cup agreed with all three. Orange shows up right at the front of each sip. The middle is where the nut lives, a gentle almond sweetness that keeps the fruit from turning sharp. Then the finish settles into milk chocolate, soft and a little sweet, and it lingers just long enough. We brewed it as drip and as a pour over and the pour over told the story best, with the orange note clearer and the body a touch lighter. As drip it rounds off into a simpler, sweeter cup, which honestly suits this bag just fine.

The story in the bag

Here is the honest part. This is a store brand. The back of the bag has a friendly panel about single origin and how the beans can be traced all the way back to the regions they were grown, and we believe the origin, but the bag never names a farm, a producer, a cooperative or the roaster. For a publication that puts farmers first, that is a real gap. Someone in Costa Rica grew this coffee with real skill and we cannot credit them by name, because Whole Foods does not either. We marked every one of those details as undisclosed rather than guess.

Who this is for

If you shop the grocery aisle and want a light roast that is actually light and actually good, this is an easy yes. It is forgiving, it brews well without a scale or a gooseneck kettle, and it tastes brighter than most of what sits next to it on the shelf. If farm level traceability is what you buy coffee for, look elsewhere on this site, because that is exactly what this bag does not offer. 4.2 stars, earned.

How we'd brew it

Treat it as a pour over coffee. Use a medium fine grind, a 1 to 16 ratio, and water just off the boil, and let the orange note do its thing. It also makes a very pleasant, forgiving drip pot for mornings when you are not measuring anything.

Costa Rica — Whole Foods Market — supplied coffee image 1
Bag — front
Costa Rica — Whole Foods Market — supplied coffee image 2
Bag — back
Editorial sacred-geometry artwork for Costa Rica — Whole Foods Market; not a documentary photograph

Editorial illustration

Editorial sacred-geometry artwork for Costa Rica — Whole Foods Market; not a documentary photograph

Editorial illustration

Our star ratings
Aroma
—
Flavor
—
Balance
—
Body & Mouthfeel
—
Finish
—
Overall
4.2
The final rating
Average of all six criteria
4.2/ 5
The internet pulse

What the internet is saying about this coffee

Research complete — no qualifying reviews yet

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What we found

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