Not only is he making use of a waste product, but Belliveau
says coffee flour is exceedingly healthy, with three times the protein of fresh kale, five times the fiber of whole - wheat flour, and three times the iron of fresh spinach.
Sometimes it's hidden away, but if you pull back the curtain on the food industry, and start to look, there is an awful lot of waste,»
says Dan Belliveau, a former Starbucks employee and founder of CoffeeFlour, a flavorful, gluten - free
flour alternative made from often discarded
coffee cherries (more on how below) in Hawaii, Nicaragua, Guatemala, Mexico, and Vietnam.