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Chewing Tobacco Replacement: Grinds Coffee Chews

By on November 11, 2012 in Ideas

Baseball is an inherently unhealthy game. Not only are the players overweight but there’s always the risk of being beaned in the head or chest by the ball. But far and away the most dangerous part about baseball is the propensity for it’s players to use chewing tobacco. A couple former college players from Cal Poly hope to change that with their new chewing tobacco replacement, Grinds Coffee Pouches:

2009 graduates Pat Pezet and Matt Canepa recently returned from touting their new product, Grinds Coffee Pouches, at professional baseball spring training camps in Arizona and Florida.

Grinds is already being used by players in 12 Major League locker rooms, where Pezet and Canepa are marketing their chewable caffeine fixes as a substitute for chewing tobacco.

Grinds pouches, filled with coffee grounds, also provide liquid supplements and come in mocha or mint chip flavors. One can, with 20 pouches, has the caffeine equivalent to about four or five cups of coffee.

Will Grinds pouches reduce spitting? According to the website, “The best way to absorb the energy from each pouch is to swallow the saliva it produces. When you have a Grinds pouch in, you’re essentially brewing the coffee in your mouth.”

Yum.

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Business Opportunities Weblog editor and publisher Dane Carlson lives in the Sierra Nevada mountains of California, just 15 miles from Yosemite National Park. He accidentally became a professional blogger in 2001. He has added 12,203 posts to the site.

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  • http://wahm.business-opportunities.biz Angela Shupe

    That is definitely different, and I am all for drawing people away from unhealthy habits like tobacco. I would say this sounds like it would taste kind of gross, but since they’re reaching out to people who traditionally used chewing tobacco, this is probably an improvement in flavor.

  • http://www.linkedin.com/pub/bebo-kobo/24/134/912 Bebo Kobo

    Tobacco chewing is always been dangerous for human and worst part is that they are aware with very well but they don’t want to stump out this habit from their life. This chewing tobacco replacement may bring some positive changes in tobacco chewing people.

  • http://www.primecoffee.com.au Perth Coffee Beans Lady

    With flavoured coffee so popular, I can just imagine Grinds pouches coming in different flavours… peppermint coffee, butterscotch coffee or vanilla coffee!

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