Besides Kopi Luwak, there is another shit-like coffee.

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People know such a thing as Kopi Luwak, but do you know there is another kind of coffee that looks like shit? It tastes different from cat shit and normal coffee.

Kopi Luwak was once popular all over the world and its prices were high, but because natural production was too low, vendors hunted civets and forced them to eat only coffee fruits to increase production. We all know that cats are carnivores, and it is difficult to maintain life on a vegetarian diet for a long time. A large number of civets are tortured to death, because the mass production of Kopi Luwak is at the cost of animal lives, which is too cruel. It has been strongly boycotted by animal protection organizations and consumers and has come to an end. After Kopi Luwak, people have discovered a new way to process coffee, that is, animal gastric juice! After Kopi Luwak fell, a kind of shit-like coffee emerged, which was not good for carnivores, so vendors focused on vegetarian animals, and elephants ate a lot of food and excreted more, far beyond what Kopi Luwak could catch up with.

Although the elephant is vegetarian and eats a lot, the output of coffee like shit is not as much as you think. A large part of the coffee fruit will be chewed up by the elephant, and some will be mixed in the weeds, and the extraction cost is too high to extract. To produce 1 kilogram of "elephant shit coffee" requires at least 33 kilograms of coffee fruit, and in addition to allowing the elephant to digest it, it has to be extracted from feces, which is all cost, and the rest of the processing process will only be more cumbersome than normal coffee, not simple, so the price of shit coffee will not be cheap. In some star-rated hotels or upscale restaurants, a cup of brewed shit-like coffee costs more than $60.

? Like shit coffee? The production of coffee beans mixed with rice, fruits and vegetables for elephants to eat, increase the digestive enzymes in the stomach, let the coffee beans soak? Vegetable juice? When coffee beans are fermented and digested by elephant stomach acid, the gastric juice will break down the protein in the coffee beans, but it will not be completely broken down. Fungi can break down the fiber of coffee fruit, such as shit coffee particles are more crisp and crisp than normal. The bitter taste of coffee mainly comes from protein, which will be transformed into caramel after being roasted at high temperature, which is the main source of bitterness. After the protein is decomposed in the intestines and stomach, the bitterness of coffee will disappear.