Method for producing clarified oil from coffee grounds and from whole and/or damaged beans
OwnerCarmenza Jaramillo De Echeverriinventor
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Abstract
A method designed to clarify the coffee oil contained in coffee grounds or in whole and/or damaged coffee beans. The method objective is achieved by starting with inoculation of the coffee grounds or coffee beans with macromycetes especially with white rot fungi, continuing with an incubation, step that allows complete population of the coffee grounds or coffee beans by the fungal mycelium to be achieved, and finishing with steps of drying and extracting the coffee oil. The method disclosed allows colourless or pale yellow coffee oil to be produced, favouring the use thereof in cosmetic and food products, amongst others.
Claims8
A process for obtaining clarified oil from spent roasted coffee grounds and whole and/or deteriorated roasted coffee beans, wherein the process comprises the following steps:
- a) inoculation of spent roasted coffee grounds and/or whole and/or deteriorated roasted coffee beans with macromycetes comprising white rot fungi having mycelium to form a mixture;
- b) incubation of the mixture until it is completely populated by the mycelium to form an incubated mixture;
- c) drying the incubated mixture;
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- d) solvent extraction of coffee oil from the dried incubated mixture.
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