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Coffee is one of the most consumed beverages in the world and India plays a major role in production and export of coffee. During coffee processing, coffee beans that are used for making fine coffee powder is removed from the entire coffee fruit eliminating some parts including husk, cherry, silver skin. Among those by products that are eliminated during the process, coffee cherries are major unutilized part. Waste management is one of the key factors in sustainable processing of food products to reduce environment pollution and also to use them effectively in other products. Considering these factors, the products made from coffee cherries include fertilizer, powder, beverage made from coffee berry skin etc. However, owing to the high nutritional content of edible coffee cherry such as polyphenols, antioxidant properties, it can be a good energy source when added to our diet. So, these can be wisely used in many processed foods to increase its overall nutritive value.