6 incredible nutritional benefits of ‘coffee waste’

77617 How many of you coffee-lovers are familiar with the term ‘coffee grounds’ and ‘coffee silverskin’. Not many, so let us give you some nutritious insight on these amazing by-products of coffee.

Yes, you guessed it right ‘coffee grounds’ and ‘coffee silverskin’ has something to do with coffee.

Traditionally it was assumed that coffee by-products – coffee grounds and coffee silverskin, have very few practical uses and applications.

However a research team from University of Granada (Spain) led by Jose Angel Rufian Henaresat has found out that there is MORE to them than just a handful of uses.

Here are the potential ways you can use the coffee by-products:

1) Spent coffee grounds can be used as homemade skin exfoliants or as abrasive cleaning products.

2) They are also known to make great composting agents for fertilizing certain plants.

3) Coffee grounds and silverskin are highly rich in fibre and phenols and has powerful antioxidant and antimicrobial properties.

4) The antioxidant effects of coffee grounds are 500 times greater than those found in vitamin C and could be employed to create functional foods with significant health benefits.

5) They also contain high levels of melanoidins, which are produced during the roasting process and give coffee its brown colour. The biological properties of these melanoidins could be harnessed for a range of practical applications, such as preventing harmful pathogens from growing in food products

6) Processed coffee by-products could potentially be recycled as sources of new food ingredients. This would also greatly diminish the environmental impact of discarded coffee by-products.

Published by Times of India

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