Café Touba
Also Senegalese café Touba
Senegal's spiced coffee, roasted with grains of Selim and brewed through cloth, sold sweet and hot on street corners.
RegionalServed hotFrom Senegal
- Volume
- 200ml6.8 US fl oz
- Espresso
- 0shots
- Caffeine
- 80mgderived, USDA FDC
- Glass
- Serving glass250 ml
The build
Watch it made, step by step- coffee roasted with…200 ml100%
- Volume
- 200ml
- Caffeine
- 80mg
- Espresso
- 0shots
Scales every component together, so the ratio holds; caffeine scales with the coffee.
Coffee beans roasted together with Selim pepper, ground fine and dripped through a cloth; served very sweet from street stalls.
Caffeine
Derivedin a 200 ml café touba
USDA FoodData Central SR Legacy caffeine per 100 g scaled to the coffee volume in components, assuming 1 g per ml. FDC 171890 (Beverages, coffee, brewed, prepared with tap water) 40.0 mg/100 g x 200 ml.
USDA FoodData Central record 171890 · read 2026-10-26
A derived figure: the reference food's caffeine per 100 g scaled to the coffee in this build. Real cups vary with the coffee, the dose and the shot.
Variants by country
1| Name | Country | How it differs |
|---|---|---|
| café Touba | Guinea | Also drunk in Guinea-Bissau and Gambia. |
History
Popular accountWikidata describes it as coffee flavoured with grains of Selim and classes it as a coffee drink. Its association with Cheikh Amadou Bamba and the Mouride brotherhood is a popular account.
Senegal; named after the holy city of Touba.
Parts of this story are repeated widely but were not confirmed against a source this atlas accepts. They are kept as the story people tell, not as fact.
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