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It took seven years for a university in Taiwan to develop "civet coffee" all over the world.

Published: 2026-07-17 Author: World Gafei

Last Updated: 2026/07/17, Taiwan's Pingtung University of Science and Technology has successfully developed civet coffee all over the world. Chinanews.com, April 22 / PRNewswire-FirstCall-Apr. according to Taiwan's Lianhe Evening News, although civet coffee with 31 kinds of natural aroma is produced in cat droppings, it is the best pursued by coffee gluttons all over the world because of its unique aroma and rare varieties, and it may not be available even if the market price is high. Pingtung

Taiwan's Pingtung University of Science and Technology has successfully developed civet coffee all over the world.

Picture from Taiwan's United Evening News

Chinanews.com, April 22-according to a report by Taiwan's Lianhe Evening News, although civet coffee with 31 kinds of natural aroma is produced in cat droppings, it is the best product pursued by coffee gluttons all over the world because of its unique aroma and rare varieties, and it may not be possible to buy it even if the market price is high and money is available. Pingtung University of Science and Technology pioneered biotechnology "Coffee Musk Coffee". It took seven years to walk all over the world, and successfully developed "Daxin Coffee", which has 11 more aromas than the original Musk Coffee beans.

Civet coffee, also known as Kopi Luwak, currently costs about NT $15000 a pound, so it is not easy for people in Taiwan to taste a real "wild civet coffee." Seeing that the coffee market around the world is becoming more and more potential, Xie Baoquan, vice president of the University of Science and Technology of the screen, released his new work on the 21st. He led the team of the Applied Microbiology Department of the Food Science Department. After seven years of successful research and development of more hygienic civet coffee.

Starting seven years ago, Xie Baoquan personally took laboratory students to Indonesia to sample, collected the feces of more than 30 civets successively, took them back to Taiwan to analyze the hyphae in the feces, and paired one by one from 136 mycelia. Finally, 16 strains were found to have the same fermentation environment as the civets' gastrointestinal tract, and then put the civet's favorite Indonesian Mantenin beans into the fermentation machine. Finally, through the analysis of the aroma by "gas chromatography", the civet coffee was successfully developed artificially, and there were 11 more flavors.

Compared with traditional wild civet coffee with chocolate, milk, almonds and other flavors, biotech fermented civet coffee has more passion fruit, caramel, etc., and a hint of flowers in the end. The whole process of cultivating musk coffee at PUST has been patented in every step from strain collection, deacidification to fermentation, and the technology is unique all over the world. at present, the estimated price is about NT $4000 per pound, which is expected to be sold in the school welfare society first.

Source: China News Network

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