Why do people like Kopi Luwak, not shit coffee, pig shit coffee?

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When it comes to animal coffee, we have shit coffee around us.

Bird shit coffee

There's even squirrel shit coffee.

But the most famous and familiar one is Kopi Luwak.

We all know that Kopi Luwak is expensive, one of the most expensive coffee in the coffee world. A genuine Kopi Luwak costs about 2500-3000 yuan a pound. Some hotels even sell a cup of Kopi Luwak for thousands of yuan.

Anyway, with the editor's financial situation...

Da Dingding asked a question:

Aren't you curious how Kopi Luwak was discovered?

Even dare to eat shit, human beings are really great.

……

Kopi Luwak, as its name implies, must be cat poop.

But this cat is no ordinary cat.

This kind of cat is called Palm Cat

His biggest hobby is stealing coffee fruit.

The Indonesian island of Sumatra is rich in coffee fruits

Every time the coffee fruit is ripe

These "thieves" will give full play to their strengths.

Climb the tree and pick the ripe coffee fruit before the islanders

The islanders hate these nimble thieves very much

Due to the heavy picking of palm cats

The coffee production of the islanders has decreased.

So every time the coffee fruits ripen, they drive them away.

And even hunted them.

Coffee fruit grows on tall coffee trees

People have to climb tall trees when picking coffee fruit.

This is an extremely exhausting and dangerous thing.

But for palm cats,

One day a lazy islander found out:

The droppings of those palm cats that step on their feet

There are a lot of undigested coffee beans.

Palm cats like delicious coffee fruits very much.

But can't digest the coffee fruit.

Many coffee fruits are excreted without being digested.

The islander thought: then why don't I just use these coffee fruits? It's fast and convenient to get, isn't it a pleasure to sit and collect money?

The islanders did so, but it was soon noticed by a coffee merchant who tasted the coffee and was surprised to find:

This kind of coffee is not only as thick as syrup, but also as thick as chocolate.

It turns out that the coffee fruit is fermented in the palm cat's stomach, destroying the protein, producing short peptides and more free amino acids, which reduces the astringency of the coffee.

Only then did the islanders understand that palm cats are a huge business opportunity.

But the palm cat is already small and doesn't eat much, and people only eat as a snack, so they can't form a large-scale production at all.

A palm cat can extract 150g of coffee beans from its feces and lose 20% in the roasting process, so the annual global supply of Kopi Luwak is no more than 400kg.

But the temptation of such high profits has made the islanders flock to it.

The Daily Mail once reported that the islanders hunted palm cats and kept them in narrow cages.

Force them to eat a lot of coffee beans.

People from the Animal Protection Society found out

Palm cats in cages began to get grumpy

Exfoliated fur and extreme malnutrition

Face not only health problems, but also mental problems:

They started hurting themselves, tearing their thighs.

Bite each other's companions.

The number of palm cats began to decline.

Kopi Luwak is really rare.

But do not hesitate to abuse cats for the sake of high profits.

It's the same sentence:

No business, no killing.

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