Studies with Coffee Oil Meal in Diets for Growing Chicks

COFFEE is the leading agricultural crop of Colombia, and often is produced in excess of quantities needed to fill export demands. This has led to investigations of alternative uses for coffee in addition to its consumption as a beverage. Encouraging pilot studies have been based on the possible use of solvent extracted coffee oil in food products. Analytical data on coffee oil have revealed its composition to be similar to other edible vegetable oils (Sivetz, 1963). However, since the coffee bean contains approximately 11–13% oil, the solvent extracted residue, coffee oil meal, represents a considerable proportion of the original product. For more efficient utilization of surplus coffee, use must be made of the coffee oil meal. Although results have been published on the feeding of coffee by-products, particularly coffee pulp and grounds, to production animals (Martinez and Nöel James, 1953; Hammond, 1944), little information is available on the nutritional …