This cup of cat poop coffee wasn't actually pooped out? The origin of artificially produced cat poop coffee

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Indonesian Kopi Luwak, also known as "Kopi Luwak", is recognized as the most expensive and top coffee in the world. Because wild muskcats choose the most mature, sweet, full and juicy coffee fruit in coffee trees, after the flesh is digested, the raw coffee beans are excreted together with feces. Coffee beans made by washing and baking have a strong coquettish taste and taste, with caramel and chocolate aroma in the mouth. Always fascinates coffee connoisseurs.

However, the international price of cat shit coffee beans per pound is equivalent to about NT $15,000 to NT $30,000. in order to make a profit, businessmen often catch wild civets and forcibly feed them, so coffee enthusiast Yang Dengyi, together with Academia Sinica academician Yang Qiuzhong, combined with Chung Hsing University, have jointly developed coffee beans that are more humane and do not rely on civets to produce coffee with cat shit.

The research team identified probiotics for human safety from coffee raw beans discharged by Indonesian civets, matched the golden proportion of probiotics through eight years of numerous scientific experiments, and then implanted high-quality coffee raw beans from various countries. finally produced coffee with the taste of Kopi Luwak in Indonesia. Coffee beans fermented by probiotics will also reduce the bitterness and caffeine, in addition to the original chocolate-like aroma, but also can change a variety of aromas such as almonds, walnuts, strawberries and so on.

In addition to the high-quality coffee beans grown in Dongshi District of Taichung City, Nantou Township, Gukeng Township of Yunlin County, and Dawu Mountain of Pingtung County, this technology has been successfully applied. In July this year, the research team used coffee beans from Ethiopia in Africa to produce Kopi Luwak, which was rated as the first Kopi Luwak in the world by the international coffee appraisal unit Coffee Review. If you want to taste the Kopi Luwak produced by this new technology, you can buy it at the Shimizu rest area of Taiwan's National Highway, Chung Hsing University and the Museum of Marine Science and Technology.

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The probiotics from Kopi Luwak raw beans were extracted, purified, cultured, identified by DNA and propagated successfully, and the probiotic strains were frozen in the laboratory at minus 80 degrees Celsius, emphasizing the production of Kopi Luwak in a more hygienic and safe way.

Coffee enthusiast Yang Dengyi (left), together with Academia Sinica academician Yang Qiuzhong (right), combined with Chung Hsing University, developed coffee beans that are more humane and do not rely on civet cats to produce coffee beans with cat poop.