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Qianjie-introduction to Indonesian Muscat Coffee

The most expensive coffee in the world is made from poop ──, or more precisely, coffee beans that are half digested and then pooped after being eaten by civets. This civet coffee is not cheap, and can be as high as $80 a cup in the United States.

The civet, which lives in Southeast Asia and sub-Saharan Africa, has a long tail like a monkey, a face like a raccoon, and stripes or spots on its body, which plays an important role in the food chain. in addition to eating fruits such as coffee and mangoes, they also eat insects and small reptiles, and they are eaten by cheetahs, large snakes and crocodiles.

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The civet coffee trade originally did no harm to these animals: coconut cats, a species endemic to Asian palm civet; Southeast Asia, invade commercial orchards in Indonesia and are often regarded by locals as a pest; as a result, the booming civet coffee industry has prompted locals to protect civets for their precious droppings. The digestive enzymes in civets change the structure of proteins in coffee beans, removing some of the sour taste and making coffee more palatable.

However, civet coffee is becoming more and more popular, and Indonesia has also become a tourist attraction for tourists to come into contact with wild animals, so more and more wild civets are kept in cages in coffee gardens. Part of this is to produce coffee, but also to earn civets' sightseeing money.

Civets have semi-digested coffee beans in their feces, which were previously collected from the wild, but more and more civets are locked up in coffee gardens and imprisoned in messy and crowded cages. PHOTOGRAPH BY ULET IFANSASTI, GETTY IMAGES

Some civets are skinny because they are only fed coffee fruit; some are fat because they can never move freely; and some civets behave abnormally because they eat too much coffee. What saddens Cruz most, however, is the grid on which many civets are forced to stand or lie all the time: "if you stand on a grid like that all day, it will certainly cause pain and skin damage." They can't do without that kind of floor and endure pain and discomfort for a long time. "

Musk cat coffee, produced in Indonesia. In the early 18th century, the Dutch established coffee plantations in the Indonesian colonies of Sumatra and Java, and banned locals from picking and eating their own coffee fruits. Indonesian locals inadvertently found that civets love to eat these coffee fruits and will drain the beans intact when defecating.

Musk cats only choose the most ripe and sweetest coffee beans, which in itself is a natural screening. Second, locals find that these beans are fermented by the cat's stomach to produce coffee that tastes better than ordinary ones. Mellow and delicious Kopi Luwak has gradually become famous and become a hot product in the international market.

Knowledge: civet animals, omnivores, pointed mouths, dark gray fur. The favorite food is fresh coffee beans, which are fermented and digested in the body and eventually excreted by cats.

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