What is Peruvian raccoon shit coffee? Why is Peruvian raccoon shit coffee so expensive?

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Peruvian coffee is very popular in the international market in recent years, frequently won the international coffee gold awards, Peruvian coffee mellow taste and soft sour taste is very popular. Now Peru has become the world's third largest exporter of coffee, especially a kind of coffee derived from raccoon droppings, tens of dollars a small cup, one of the most expensive coffee in the world.

Raccoon poop coffee is expensive.

The reporter saw an endless stream of people coming to buy and drink coffee in a small coffee shop in Lima, Peru. On the shelf are cans of coffee from different parts of Peru. The reporter found that a kind of coffee called raccoon is ridiculously expensive, 10 times the price of other varieties of coffee, or more than $150 a kilogram. As soon as I asked the boss, it turned out that this is a kind of coffee made from animal droppings, which is mainly produced in the Amazon of Peru. It is made from coffee beans eaten by raccoons, digested and excreted, which are washed and roasted to form this kind of pure natural raccoon dung coffee (pictured).

The annual output of this kind of coffee is less than 2000 kilograms, and most of it is exported to the United States, with an annual export of more than 1400 kilograms. A cup of coffee in the United States costs 60 US dollars, and the price of one kilogram is as high as 1400 US dollars. Even a small cup in a coffee shop in Peru costs more than $10, which is the most expensive coffee in the world.

The reporter tasted the raccoon dung coffee and chose the American production method, so that the coffee taste will be relatively pure. The first sip feels that the coffee taste is very strong, slightly bitter, with a little sugar, the taste becomes much softer, and the aroma of the coffee in the mouth lasts long after drinking. A woman who bought coffee beans next to me told me that adding some wine would taste better-maybe everyone likes it differently.

Raccoon is a coffee factory.

This gourmet Peruvian coffee from the Peruvian Amazon region has become the most expensive and delicious coffee without a long-billed raccoon that lives in South America at an altitude of 1800 to more than 4000 meters. This raccoon is small, about the size of a domestic cat and has a long mouth. The raccoon loves to eat fresh and fragrant fruit very much. After the raccoon carefully chooses and eats the ripe fresh coffee fruit, it is digested through its intestines and stomach, coffee peel and meat, and the coffee bean is fermented in the raccoon's intestines and stomach because it is indigestible. As a result, the protein of the coffee bean is destroyed, so that the bitter taste of the coffee bean decreases, and then it is excreted out of the body. After manual washing and baking, the coffee produced has a different taste. It has become a hot item in the international market. What makes it unique is that a series of procedures, such as peeling the machined coffee fruit, are magically completed in the raccoon stomach and intestines for 4 to 6 hours. Absolutely natural.

In addition, long-billed raccoons can only eat 25 grams of fresh coffee a day, and choose especially fresh, full, good-tasting coffee, so the output of this kind of coffee is very small, forming a unique gourmet coffee with high added value, so the price is ridiculously high.