Coffee Flour - Introducing Next Year's Revolutionary Superfood

Hold the cappuccino and put down your lattes!

There's a new caffeine kid in town - and this time you can eat it.

If you're of the "no carbs before Marbs" camp, you'll know what it feels like to be constantly on the hunt for food that will keep you full, without pumping you full of refined flours and sugars.

Well, listen up, because Coffee Flour is about to rock your world.

This new ingredient, which is made from the ground up fruit of the coffee plant, known as the "cherry", has a staggering five times more fibre than wholewheat flour.

And that isn't all.

It's got three times as much protein than fresh kale and three times more iron than spinach.

That makes it a bit of a health superhero in our books.

What's more, it still has some caffeine in it too - not enough to have you sitting bolt upright at your desk, but enough to give you some of its benefits.

Unlike your regular cuppa joe, you won't be slurping down coffee flour from a foam mug on your way to the office.

It's a baking ingredient, which means you can use it as a healthier alternative to regular flour, for your next #cleaneating victoria sponge.

Talk about having your cake and eating it.

Unfortunately for those already convinced, coffee flour won't actually be available in the shops until as late as 2015.

BUT, in the mean time, here are a few other healthy flour-alternatives, to tide you over while you wait:

Oat Flour

Made from grinding up regular oats, oat flour is one of the easiest and cheapest flour alternatives to get hold of.

Celiacs and wheat intolerants have been using it for years and, actually, you can make your own pretty easily with the help of a good food processor.

There's no natural raising agent in it, so you'll have to add a bit of baking powder, but that's really the only thing standing between your next oat flour Battenberg.

Have a go at some of the oat flour recipes on Yummly.

Coconut Flour

Coconut flour is made from the dried and de-fatted cocnut fruit.

It has a lovely sweet flavour, like a Bounty bar, but without being chock full of sugar.

Add some club tropicana to your bakewell tart, or throw it in something savoury for a bit of "islands" flourish.

Mmh, chicken coco-nuggets.

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Peanut Flour

This one is the latest craze among the super-foodies.

It is made by grinding peanuts into a paste, like peanut butter but with no added salt and sugar, and then pressing out the oil.

It is low in fat, but still retains the protein, fibre and all the other nutrients of our beloved bar-top snack.

Check out this peanut flour chocolate cake.

You'd be nutty not to.