Transformative process provides nutritional, economic, and environmental benefits worldwide. The team behind Coffee Flour™ saw a long-standing problem in need of a solution and invented a process for turning the unvalued coffee cherry pulp cast off in the harvest of coffee beans into nutritious and tasty flour.
Xinova ferried a visionary food innovation, Coffee Flour, across every phase of the innovation lifecycle, from idea to product-on-shelf, first in Japan and now in nine countries. Commercializing Coffee Flour required expansive use of Xinova’s unique global innovation market network to align demand with the sources of funding, technology, and expertise necessary for transforming a great idea into a scalable, high-growth-potential new agricultural product with far-reaching benefits to local economies and ecologies.
Each year, when coffee beans are separated from their surrounding coffee cherries, about a billion pounds of the remaining fruit pulp is dumped into rivers or left to decompose. Inventor Dan Belliveau developed a process that converts coffee cherry pulp into a gluten-free super-ingredient, Coffee Flour. But he lacked resources and expertise to commercialize his transformative innovation.
The Xinova global innovation ecosystem aligned key players in the food process supply chain, including distributors and grower-producer companies around the globe. Xinova propelled all phases of the innovation lifecycle, from invention, product development and investment, to product-on-shelf in Japan, ready for global scale. The Coffee Cherry Company will provide fresh culinary possibilities to kitchens worldwide while benefiting the environment and adding income and jobs for small coffee farmers and their local economies.
Our partnership with Xinova is providing the necessary elements to position us for ongoing success on a global scale.
— Dan Belliveau, CF Global Holdings Founder and CEO
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