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Kopi Luwak, also known as civet coffee (English: civet coffee, Indonesian: Kopi Luwak, Filipino: kape motit, kape alamid, kape mel ô, kape musang). Kopi Luwak is the second most expensive coffee in the world, with a price of several hundred US dollars per pound. It is extracted from the feces of civets and processed. The civet eats the ripe coffee fruit and is excreted through the digestive system. After it is fermented through the stomach, the coffee produced has a special taste and has become a hot item in the international market.

Kopi Luwak is made in Indonesia. In the early 18th century, the Dutch set up coffee plantations in Sumatra and Java, Indonesia, and banned locals from picking and eating their own coffee fruits. When they found that civets like to eat these coffee fruits, they hunted and killed them in large numbers. The locals found coffee fruit in the civet's feces, which was a pity, so they washed it and sold it on the market. Businessmen think that this kind of coffee is not only delicious but also unique, so they make a large number of purchases, but by this time the number of civets has dropped dramatically, so this kind of coffee beans have become extremely rare. It's really nature to play with cats.

The civet is a nocturnal animal that defecates before dawn. If you wait until noon to collect feces, it will not be fresh. Wild musk cats in the natural environment, not only choose the sweetest coffee fruit to eat, but also eat a variety of fruits and insects, balanced nutrition, good gastrointestinal function, discharge strips of poop, almost can not smell the smell. Artificially raised civets under pressure, the diet is abnormal, affecting the gastrointestinal tract bacteria, the quality of the fed coffee fruit is different, what is more, the desire for profit hardly feeds any other food except the coffee fruit. Due to chronic malnutrition and intestinal damage, such civets live for about two to three years.