Why is it called cat poop coffee?

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Muscat Coffee (Kopi Luwak), Kopi (Indonesian, coffee), Luwak refers to a kind of arboreal wild animal commonly known as "civet" in Indonesia. Civet coffee 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 the civet and processed. The civet eats the ripe coffee fruit and is excreted through the digestive system. Due to the fermentation of the stomach, the coffee produced has a special taste and has become a hot item in the international market.

English name: civet Coffee Foreign language name: Kopi Luwak Alias: does Kopi Luwak contain preservatives: no principle civets like to choose the most ripe, sweet, juicy coffee fruits in coffee trees as food. The coffee fruit passes through its digestive system, and only the pulp on the outside of the fruit is digested, and the hard coffee beans are then excreted intact by the civet's digestive system. This digestion process, so that coffee beans have an unparalleled magical change, the flavor tends to be unique, the taste is particularly mellow, rich and round sweet taste is also unmatched by other coffee beans. This is due to the fact that the civets' digestive system destroys the protein in the coffee beans, making the coffee much less bitter and increasing the round taste of the coffee beans. Because wild civets are obviously better at selecting good coffee fruits, this kind of coffee has outstanding characteristics.

Kopi Luwak (Kopi Luwat) is made from the droppings of wild Indonesian musk cats (Paradoxurus hermaphroditus). Civets like to eat ripe red coffee fruits on coffee trees, so undigested coffee seeds are often left in their feces. The farm operator picked out the seeds from the feces, removed the silver-gray film, washed them with water, dried them in the sun, and stir-fried them to become cat poop coffee beans.

Because the musk cat specially chooses ripe coffee fruits to eat, the coffee beans are of good quality. In addition, the coffee beans are fermented with saliva or gastric juice in the civet, which has a unique aroma. As it is not easy to get, it is said that the annual output is only 800 kilograms, so the price is high.

A pack of 50 grams of Luwak coffee beans costs about 5400 yuan. If 3.5 to 4 grams of beans are added to a cup of coffee, the price of each cup of Luwak coffee is about 374 to 416 yuan. The 100g packet of Luwak-T 10 is made by mixing 12% Luwak coffee and Arabica coffee beans at a price of 1250 yuan.

The Kopi Luwak is also introduced in the coffee shop of the five-star hotel, which costs 168 yuan for a 4 oz cup.