Is elephant dung coffee really better than Kopi Luwak?

Many people have heard of Indonesia's "Kopi Luwak". Now, a new one has been added to make coffee from animal droppings. Thailand's Golden Triangle "elephant dung coffee" has become a new favorite of coffee clans. after all, the feces of elephants are still much larger than those of cats.

Elephant dung coffee, as its name implies, is that after the elephant eats the coffee beans, it is excreted through the digestive system. The staff collects the coffee beans from the elephant dung, cleans them and then processes them to become a delicious elephant dung coffee. Dung coffee, which tastes like milk chocolate, nuts, spices and cranberries, costs $1100 a kilogram and is said to be "naturally purified" and has become one of the most expensive coffee in the world. For coffee lovers of different flavors, "black ivory" mixed coffee is just to the taste. Luxury hotel group Anattara launched the high-end coffee in Thailand on Oct. 25 at a price of $25 a cup.

According to the Anattara Hotel in Thailand, the Anattara Hotel has its own large elephant camp in the Chiang Mai Golden Triangle Resort, from which their coffee beans are extracted. Studies have shown that enzymes in elephants destroy coffee protein, because protein is one of the most important factors contributing to coffee bitterness, so less protein means coffee has little bitterness. This coffee is mainly composed of beans digested and excreted by Thai elephants, so it "tastes particularly smooth". After the coffee beans are digested and discharged by elephants, they are collected by elephant watchers and dried naturally. The entire production process was completed at the hotel's Elephant Rescue Center in northern Thailand, where 30 elephants live. I don't know when Chinese coffee lovers will be lucky to have a taste of this non-bitter elephant dung coffee.