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Elephant poop coffee, known as "black ivory" coffee beans, is "naturally extracted" by Asian elephants. The coffee fruit is enzymatic in the digestive process of the elephant stomach, which breaks down the protein in the coffee beans, so the taste of this elephant poop coffee is not bitter. With aromas of milk chocolate, nuts, red berries and a few spices.

The process of producing dung-like coffee is quite cumbersome, using Arabian coffee beans hand-picked by local mountain tribal women as raw materials, and then mixing coffee beans with bananas, sugar cane and other vegetarian foods often eaten by elephants to feed elephants. This gives the coffee a unique earthy and fruity flavor. After thorough cleaning, the semi-finished coffee beans will be sent to Bangkok and finally baked into finished products.

After the elephant eats the coffee beans, the stomach acid breaks down the protein in the coffee beans during digestion. On the other hand, the bitterness of coffee mainly comes from protein, and the common bitterness of coffee disappears after decomposition. This principle is similar to that of cat dung coffee, except that the elephant's stomach is larger and more conducive to digestion and decomposition.

Coffee drinkers all know that the beans of "musk cat coffee" are eaten by Indonesian coconut civets, which are fermented in the gastric juice, destroy the proteins and then excreted, so that the coffee will be less bitter. It took 10 years for Ding Jin, a Canadian who studies coffee recipes, to extract the most expensive coffee in history from elephant droppings, costing US $60 (about NT $1808) for a cup.

Blake Dinkin, a Canadian who specializes in the formulation of coffee, went to Ethiopia, the birthplace of kopi luwak coffee, to participate in a research project when civet coffee was popular. After learning about the expertise, he hoped that one day he could use his expertise to create a more distinctive and sustainable coffee industry. At the same time, he also wanted to create agricultural well-being for some countries. So he began to move his ideas to other animals, such as giraffes, zebras, lions, and finally chose elephants.

The process of making shit coffee is quite tedious. First of all, fresh coffee beans should be collected by manual picking. Then mix the rice, bananas and coffee beans together. After feeding the elephant, these coffee beans will be "produced" after 17 hours in the elephant's stomach, mixed with stomach acid and fermented. After manual collection and cleaning. You can cook it.

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