I've heard of civet coffee, monkey coffee. Do you know what it is? Is it as miserable as the civet?

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Monkey coffee

Just like civet coffee, monkey coffee is also a rare coffee bean obtained from monkey droppings. Because smart monkeys are very picky about coffee fruits, if they are not delicious, they will not necessarily swallow them, so the quality is screened in the first step. and then after the baptism of the digestive tract to make the flavor better and special, but the output is not much, and because the quantity is not large, so the price is not cheap!

Where does monkey coffee come from?

According to the author's reference, monkey coffee originated in India and Africa, in which African monkey coffee is taken from monkey excrement, while Indian monkey coffee is made from intraoral saliva, also known as "monkey drooling coffee".

Monkey coffee in India mainly comes from the town of chickmagalur in Karnataka, which has good mountains and water, and the coffee produced by the coffee garden accounts for 60% of India's total coffee production. Monkeys mainly live in the forest, and these coffee farms are located next to the forest, so monkeys often patronize these coffee farms, select the coffee fruits, eat the flesh into their mouths, and spit out the rest of the coffee seeds. these seeds are usually used as natural fertilizer. in recent years, animal coffee has become more and more popular, so it has been specially collected and sold to foreign markets!

Taiwanese monkeys (Taiwanese macaques) will chew the coffee fruit in the mouth and spit out the seeds before they are carefully picked up by coffee farmers and roasted into ripe coffee beans. On the other hand, the saliva in the mouth of the monkey contains enzymes, which affects the flavor of coffee beans. It is a special vanilla flavor that makes the coffee unique.

Compared with monkey coffee obtained from feces, monkey coffee in Taiwan may have less psychological shadow area, but the price is really not cheap, and you still have to muster up some courage to try!