The history of cat feces coffee beans The origin and development of cat feces coffee beans What kind of cat feces coffee beans are

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It began in the 18th century, when Dutch colonists built their own coffee plantations on the Indonesian islands of Java and Sumatra, and their business was booming. Out of the consciousness of the imperial colonists, they naturally did not allow growers to pick and eat their own coffee fruits.

In the face of the coffee fruits they have grown all the year round, the plantation workers can't even take a sip. No one can help but have some small thoughts.

At that time, there were small animals in the plantation at night, sneaking into the garden to eat coffee fruit, and picking out the reddest and best to eat. This little animal was later known as the civet, a poor creature that could be added to the annals of history on the human Kopi Luwak coffee expedition.

Plantation workers found that civets love coffee fruit, but their intestines and stomach can not digest the hard coffee beans and can only be excreted with their own poop. In order to taste the taste of coffee, they took these undigested coffee beans home to wash, roast, grind and drink, and they had a feeling of winning the prize: it tastes better than the original!

It turns out that because the civets' intestinal secretions have a special flavor, and after the coffee beans enter the stomach, the protein is slowly digested, producing short peptides and more free amino acids, making the coffee beans much less bitter. This series of processes embellishes the smell of coffee beans and gives Kopi Luwak a round taste.

Because the civets' intestines and stomach can only digest the part of the flesh, while the hard kernels (that is, coffee beans) cannot be digested, they are excreted along with the civets' feces. Due to the acid corrosion of the intestinal tract, the rugged surface of the general coffee bean becomes obviously smooth, and the biological energy replaces the traditional processing technology, reducing the acid and bitterness in the original bean, so it is particularly mellow. These Kopi Luwak coffee beans specially made by the civet are all fine. It is found that the coffee brewed from these beans tastes strange and gets its name from cat shit caffeine.