coffee grounds

An investigation of the University of Minho has created a drink made from coffee grounds, with an alcohol content that makes it so strong as vodka or brandy. This has already been considered by Time magazine one of the 25 best inventions of the year.
«The new drink was identified as alcoholic coffee but actually is a distilled as a clear brandy with 40% ethanol and aroma of coffee," says the responsible of the investigation, Solange Mussatto in a statement.
The patent was registered, is awaited by someone who be interested in the product, in a commercial component.

The grounds resulting from the preparation of coffee may have a final destination quite different from the usual. If, as a rule, almost always end up in the trash, they are, according to what suggests a survey released in the Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry, a rich source of antioxidants. This research points out, moreover, that the waste itself contain "more antioxidants than their own coffee beans."