One Man’s Trash …
May 17th, 2010 • Uncategorized
I came across news of an interesting study out of the University of Melbourne in Australia, where scientists examined the nutritional benefits of food waste and found a high level of antioxidants in parts of fruits that often go unused.
“Fruit has long been known for its health benefits, partly as a good source of antioxidants, the chemical compounds, including some vitamins, that protect body cells from damage,” said Dr. Said Ajlouni of the Melbourne School of Land and Environment, whose study was reported in Science Alert. “So we decided to investigate if fruit waste also had these properties.”
The Melbourne team’s analysis of tomato, apple, plum, peach, pear, grape and apricot waste showed that they all are good sources of antioxidants.
If this concept sounds familiar, that’s because it’s at the very core of how we came up with Bai. The antioxidant boost in Bai is derived from the fruit of the coffee bean, which is normally discarded during the coffee harvesting process. When we learned about the rich antioxidant properties of the “coffee superfruit” — particularly how it stacked up against more well-known “superfoods” such as blueberries and pomegranates — we worked to find a way to rescue it from the scrap heap and create the drink that became Bai.
As the old saying goes, one man’s trash is another man’s treasure!
