Is Kopi Luwak really cat shit, introduced by Kopi Luwak

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It depends on the origin of the coffee. If the coffee is from Indonesia, it should be the feces of civets. If it is from Yunnan, China, it is very likely to be masked palm civet's feces.

Kopi Luwak is actually a kind of coffee made from coffee beans digested and excreted by civets, and it is currently the most expensive coffee in the world. Here are the details of Kopi Luwak.

Kopi Luwak, also known as civet coffee. The official name of Kopi Luwak is KopiLuwak. Kopi means "coffee" in Indonesian, while Luwak is a wild civet in Indonesia. The coffee is commonly known as Kopi Luwak because it is made from beans picked from the droppings of civets.

Kopi Luwak chooses to make Kopi Luwak from the feces of civets. It is grown in Indonesia, where a large number of coffee crops are grown. There are wild animals called civets, omnivores, pointed mouths and dark gray fur. Indonesians call them "Luwak". Luwak likes to choose the most ripe, sweet, juicy coffee fruit in the coffee tree as food. The coffee fruit through its digestive system, is digested only the pulp of the fruit appearance, hard coffee beans will be excreted by Luwak. After this digestion process, the coffee bean has a magical change, the flavor is unique, the taste is particularly mellow, which is incomparable to other coffee beans.

What is Kopi Luwak? is it really cat shit?

In general, the production process of coffee beans is to remove the peel, pulp and sheep skin of the coffee fruit after the sun, and finally take out the coffee beans. Luwak's digestive system destroys the protein in coffee beans, thus reducing the bitterness of the coffee and increasing the roundness. The raw coffee beans extracted and processed from the feces of Luwak are Kopi Luwak.

After eating the coffee beans, Kopi Luwak Luwak breaks down the protein in the coffee beans, and many of the ingredients in the coffee beans have changed. Careful comparison of ordinary coffee beans, may be due to the acid corrosion of the intestinal tract of Luwak, the rugged surface of general coffee beans becomes obviously smooth, "biological energy" replaces the traditional processing technology, reducing the acid and bitterness in the original beans, so it is particularly mellow. What makes Luwak special is that when civets excrete coffee beans, their feces pass through the nearby genital palace. As a result, coffee beans are stained with musk oil secreted by their reproductive organs, giving them a special sense of taste.