Coffee bean production method production area

Luwak coffee beans.

Kopi Luwak (Indonesian for coffee), Luwak is Indonesian for a wild arboreal animal commonly known as the "civet" that looks similar to the civet in southern China. Of Sumatra, Java, and Survish islands, part of Indonesia's 13,677 islands. Luwak belongs to omnivores. They are solitary, sensitive in smell, thick hair and long tail. They like to sleep at night. They inhabit tropical rain forest, subtropical evergreen broad-leaved forest, mountain shrub or hills, mountains and grass below 2000 meters above sea level. Their diet includes small mammals, birds, amphibians and reptiles, crustaceans, insects and plant fruits, seeds and so on.

Sumatra, Indonesia produces excellent coffee beans, which were recovered from civet dung in the bush.

Lianhe Zaobao reported on the 6th that there is a coffee garden 100 kilometers southeast of Medan City in Sumatra Island. Every morning, operators go to the coffee garden to look for civet feces and pick out coffee beans. They think civet cats are natural machines for removing coffee pulp.

Civets eat the most ripe coffee cherries. Enzymes break down the pulp of the coffee cherries and then expel the coffee beans. Workers collect the beans, wash away faeces and make a drink that coffee lovers find hard to resist.

When coffee beans enter the civet's digestive system, enzymes that break down protein into small molecules interact with the beans... When the beans are roasted, these small molecular proteins react chemically with the carbohydrates or sugars in the beans, giving "luwak coffee" its famous natural chocolate flavor, explained Marconi, assistant professor in the Department of Food Science at the University of Guelph in Canada