This Flour With Caffeine In It Could Be A Game Changer
Non-fans of coffee, rejoice! There’s finally a way to wake yourself up in the morning without having to force the bitter taste of coffee down your gullet.
Professor Daniel Perlman of Brandeis University in Waltham, Massachusetts, has come up with a way to use flour as the vessel for everyday caffeine intake. According to Perlman’s interview with Eater, he explained that the, “flour contains 2.5 percent caffeine by weight, so if you were to put 4 grams of this into, say, a breakfast muffin, it would be the equivalent of drinking a cup of coffee.”
The one thing that separates Perlman’s coffee flour from the vast majority of his competitors is the nature of the ingredients. While most caffeine-infused food products are made from coffee byproducts or synthetic caffeine (because who doesn’t love synthetic anything?), Perlman’s flour is made directly from the green coffee bean.
“It’s more of an enhancing nutritional ingredient to provide the antioxidants as well as the natural caffeine boost.”
After baking the beans for only a few minutes and on a low temperature setting, they aren’t used for brewing, but rather, are ground up into a soft, thin powder and used as flour. Baking them this way helps retain much more “chlorogenic acid (CGA), an antioxidant that appears to modulate how rapidly the body breaks down glucose.”
While the ingenuity behind it is refreshing, Perlman goes on to explain that it’s not a stand-alone product, but “it’s more of an enhancing nutritional ingredient to provide the antioxidants as well as the natural caffeine boost.”
If all goes well for Perlman, it won’t be long before Starbucks begins selling Starbaked caffeinated goods.
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