Highground Organic Instant Coffee vs Mount Hagen Organic Instant Coffee Sticks 25ct

Highground Organic Instant Coffee

8.3/ 10

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Mount Hagen Organic Instant Coffee Sticks 25ct

9.6/ 10

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The verdict

Mount Hagen Organic Instant Coffee Sticks 25ct is the better buy on our scoring, 9.6 to Highground Organic Instant Coffee's 8.3. It leads on convenience & format and sourcing transparency.

Who each one suits

Highground Organic Instant Coffee

Freeze-dried organic at supermarket money, hot or iced

Mount Hagen Organic Instant Coffee Sticks 25ct

The best instant on this site, in the format that travels

Scores higher on convenience & format, sourcing transparency, packaging & shelf life.

How they score, criterion by criterion

Both are scored the same way against the rest of their category, from what their makers publish. The weight is how much each criterion moves the total. How the score works

Criterion	Weight in category	Highground Organic Instant Coffee	Mount Hagen Organic Instant Coffee Sticks 25ct
Process & Cup Quality	30%	9.0	9.0
Convenience & Format	20%	8.5	10.0
Sourcing Transparency	18%	7.3	10.0
Packaging & Shelf Life	16%	6.7	10.0

What each one costs

Price

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Where they differ

Every specification the two makers publish differently. Everything they match on is in the full table below.

	Highground Organic Instant Coffee	Mount Hagen Organic Instant Coffee Sticks 25ct
Best for	Freeze-dried organic at supermarket money, hot or iced	The best instant on this site, in the format that travels
What sets it apart	Organic and fair-trade certified, freeze-dried, and published as dissolving in cold water	The same freeze-dried organic coffee as the jar, dosed into sticks you can carry
Bean Type	100% Arabica, medium roast	Arabica
Coffee Grams per Bag	—	2
Dissolves in Cold Water	✓	✓
Origin	—	Papua New Guinea, Peru and Honduras
Origin Note	—	Mount Hagen names the blend on its own site as the finest Arabicas from Papua New Guinea, Peru and Honduras. The jar does not carry it.
Packaging Type	Jar	Stick
Packaging Type Note	The jar states it is a 30% recycled plastic jar.	—
Process Method Note	—	Printed on each box as FREEZE-DRIED.
Servings per Pack	More than 40 per jar	25

Pros and cons

From each full review, written from the same published facts as the scores above.

Highground Organic Instant Coffee

+Organic and Fair Trade certified, which only Mount Hagen and Terrasoul also carry here
+Freeze dried, 100% Arabica medium roast, more than 40 servings a jar
+Highground publishes it for cold water as well as hot

−A 3.53oz jar, which is a fraction of the Anthony's 14oz
−A jar rather than sticks, so it stays at home
−No price and no origin published

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Mount Hagen Organic Instant Coffee Sticks 25ct

+The same freeze-dried, USDA Organic and Fair Trade coffee as the jar, in 25 portable 2g sticks
+Published for cold water and milk as well as hot
+Arabica from Papua New Guinea, Peru and Honduras, the origins Mount Hagen names for the blend

−25 servings against roughly 50 in the jar, for a format that is usually dearer per cup
−No price is published for it here

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Every specification, side by side

	Highground Organic Instant Coffee	Mount Hagen Organic Instant Coffee Sticks 25ct
Who it suits
Best for	Freeze-dried organic at supermarket money, hot or iced	The best instant on this site, in the format that travels
What sets it apart	Organic and fair-trade certified, freeze-dried, and published as dissolving in cold water	The same freeze-dried organic coffee as the jar, dosed into sticks you can carry
Specifications
Bean Type	100% Arabica, medium roast	Arabica
Certifications	Fairtrade, Organic	Fairtrade, Organic
Coffee Grams per Bag	—	2
Dissolves in Cold Water	✓	✓
Flavoured	Not flavoured	Not flavoured
Origin	—	Papua New Guinea, Peru and Honduras
Origin Note	—	Mount Hagen names the blend on its own site as the finest Arabicas from Papua New Guinea, Peru and Honduras. The jar does not carry it.
Packaging Type	Jar	Stick
Packaging Type Note	The jar states it is a 30% recycled plastic jar.	—
Process Method	Freeze-dried	Freeze-dried
Process Method Note	—	Printed on each box as FREEZE-DRIED.
Servings per Pack	More than 40 per jar	25
Ships to	US	US
Ships to Note	Confirmed on Amazon US, which is where this link points. Availability in other Amazon stores has not been checked, and a regional store may substitute a different product.	Confirmed on Amazon US, which is where this link points. Availability in other Amazon stores has not been checked, and a regional store may substitute a different product.