The world's most expensive coffee bean musk cat coffee is produced by masked palm civet in Taiwan.

The mountain pig farm in Peinan Township, Taitung County, is used to produce Taiwan civet coffee by in vitro fermentation of fruit civet.

Southeast net, July 7-according to Taiwan media reports, the world-famous civet coffee has also been produced in Taiwan! With the assistance of the Industrial Research Institute, the mountain pig farm in Peinan Township, Taitung County, uses masked palm civet (an animal of the same family as the civet) to produce Taiwanese civet coffee by in vitro fermentation, making Taitung coffee a best seller and more than three times cheaper than the authentic civet coffee.

The most expensive civet coffee, which is described as "the most expensive coffee bean in the world," is produced in Sumatra, Indonesia, and sells for as much as NT $9000 per pound on the international market (the same below).

Ruan Yong-Kuang, head of the mountain pig farm that breeds Taiwan's musk cat coffee, points out that he already raised a small amount of masked palm civet and also grew coffee, but because Taitung coffee itself is relatively insipid and lacks characteristics, it has always been not as famous as Gukeng coffee, so it has been unsalable for a long time, and it was even more difficult to make a living after the 1988 storm.

He said that later, he applied for an innovative R & D subsidy for small and medium-sized enterprises from the Ministry of Economic Affairs, and the ITRI helped start the production of Taiwan's version of civet coffee. In particular, the ITRI's civet coffee is "fermented in vitro." only the first batch of bacteria are collected from civet droppings from coffee beans, and then four kinds of civets intestinal lactic acid bacteria are isolated in the laboratory, and ask the food research institute to copy a large number of them. Then enter the laboratory to ferment the coffee. The coffee produced in this way is not only full of aroma, but also more hygienic than the real civet coffee, and you don't have to worry about bacterial infection.

Nguyen Yong-Kuang says that coffee bred with civets' intestinal bacteria makes up for the lack of fragrance in Taitung Coffee. It is not only sweet, but also has a strong aroma, and the entrance is slightly bitter but not astringent. More importantly, Ruan Yongguang's coffee price has fully tripled as a result!

He said that 60 grams of Taiwanese civet coffee costs only 360 yuan, which translates to about 2724 yuan per pound, which is more than three times cheaper than Indonesian civet coffee, which can be said to be quite a bargain.

Civet coffee, the most expensive of all coffee beans. The game of cat and mouse in coffee beans was the first to make a name for Indonesia's civet coffee, Vietnam also had weasel coffee, Taiwan also produced masked palm civet coffee, and the Philippines, which is close to Indonesia, can certainly make civet dung coffee.