The price of cat poop coffee beans, the taste of Kopi Luwak

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Cat poop coffee beans cost hundreds of dollars per pound, making it one of the most expensive coffee in the world. Why are cat poop coffee beans so expensive?

In Indonesia, there is a kind of cat called the musk cat, which is what we call masked palm civet. This kind of animal specializes in eating fat and pulpy coffee fruit in Indonesia, which is difficult to digest after eating, and then the complete coffee beans will be excreted. The local people regard the civet droppings as a gift from God, so they collect the feces from the civets and go through several processes such as selection, drying, deodorization, processing and roasting. That's how cat poop coffee beans were born.

Indonesian civets like to choose the most ripe, sweet, juicy coffee fruits in coffee trees as food. As the coffee fruit passes through its digestive system, only the pulp on the outside of the fruit is digested, and the hard coffee beans are excreted by Indonesian coconut cats. After this digestion process, coffee beans have changed, the flavor is unique, the taste is particularly mellow.

According to the study, the digestive system of the Indonesian civet destroys the protein in the coffee beans, thus reducing the bitterness of the coffee and increasing the round taste.

Coffee beans generally go through the process of shell fermentation, coffee beans in the civets' intestines, special bacteria provide a unique fermentation environment, the flavor becomes unique, particularly thick and mellow. The coffee beans fermented by civets' intestines and stomach are very thick and mellow.

Indonesian coffee has the taste of earth and traditional Chinese medicine, and its consistency is among the highest in all continents. But "Kopi Luwak" has a heavier earthy smell, and its consistency is closer to that of syrup. It has a very special flavor. After drinking, there will still be a touch of peppermint cool feeling in the mouth, which is the "exclusive taste" that ordinary coffee does not have. After drinking a cup, take a deep breath or take a sip of cold water, you can obviously feel cool from mouth to throat. It's like I just ate a mint lotion.

Although Kopi Luwak is made of cat shit, it has a unique flavor. It is also the only coffee in the world. It is a specialty of Indonesia.