Coffee flour. Credit: Image courtesy of Brandeis University
Biophysicist Perlman is developing the flour milled from parbaked beans both as a food ingredient and a nutritional supplement. “It’s a world of difference” from the traditional coffee bean, Perlman says. Research has shown that drinking coffee is good for you. A recent Harvard study found that people who drank three to five cups a day had a 15% lower chance of prematurely dying than non-drinkers.
Nobody knows for certain what causes coffee to be salutary, but one leading explanation involves a natural chemical compound called chlorogenic acid (CGA). An antioxidant, CGA is thought to be beneficial in modulating sugar metabolism, controlling BP and possibly treating heart disease and cancer.
Unfortunately, when coffee is roasted th...
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