Puertas-Mejía MA, Villegas-Guzmán P, Rojano BA

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ABSTRACT

Introduction: besides its commercial importance, Coffee arabica L. is also considered a medicinal plant due to its various biological properties, but its marketing produces a large amount of residues. Spent coffee grounds are one of these residues, which are obtained after the preparation of the drink and contain a significant concentration of polyphenolic compounds. Therefore, the recovery of these substances costless residual will be potentially useful for food and pharmaceutical industry.
Objectives: to recover polyphenolic compounds from spent coffee grounds and to give an added value to a vegetable waste as a source of substances with free radicals capacity in vitro.
Methods: dehydrated spent coffee grounds were subjected to solid-liquid extraction using different solvent systems. Antioxidant properties were evaluated in vitro using the radical monocation 2,2´-azino-bis-3-ethylbenzothiazoline-6-sulfonic acid (ABTS) and the stable free radical 2-2-diphenyl-1-picrylhydrazyl (DPPH). Liquid chromatography coupled to mass spectrometry was applied to characterize the main compounds.
Results: all the extracts obtained showed a good antioxidant capacity with ethanolwater extract, followed by acidulated methanol extract. However, the antioxidant capacity of the ethanol-water extract was lower than coffee beverage. Chlorogenic, isochlorogenic and feruloylquinic acids were identified as the main compounds present in spent coffee grounds.
Conclusions: all extracts showed a significant protection effect against free radicals; spent coffee ground, which is considered an undesirable solid waste from industrial processing, could be an add-value raw material in the recovery of antioxidant substances which generates great expectations about its possible use in the pharmaceutical and food industry and gives coffee an important added value.

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