| abstract |
The present invention provides a method for the preparation of a myceliated coffee product. This method comprises providing green coffee beans and optionally heat treating the green coffee beans to provide prepared green coffee beans. Furthermore, a step of inoculating the prepared green coffee beans with a prepared fungal component and culturing the inoculum to prepare the myceliated coffee product is included. The present invention discusses different embodiments of the invention and the various products that can be developed by altering certain parameters, such as green coffee bean moisture content. The methods of the instant invention result in prepared green coffee beans and myceliated coffee products having reduced levels of undesirable taste components, such as 2-furanmethanol, and increased levels of fungal metabolites, such as β-glucans and other polysaccharides, relative to starting green coffee beans. |