Leftover Coffee Grounds Unlock 6 Tons Of Antioxidant Dietary Fiber
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Spent Coffee Grounds As Food Ingredient In Bakery Products

A new use for a familiar favorite – coffee. Specifically spent grounds. Nothing like 6 tons of antioxidants and dietary fiber in our food waste streams. Here’s a novel way to extract high value from our food waste and get some much needed help with our chronically low dietary fiber levels.

Highlights

•Spent coffee grounds are natural source of antioxidant dietary fibre.
•Coffee antioxidant dietary fibre is a food ingredient for use at high temperature.
•A food grade ingredient has been obtained from spent coffee grounds.
•Safety of spent coffee grounds can be easily controlled.
•Spent coffee grounds can be used in bakery products and other foodstuffs.

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