Civet Cats Coffee Bean
Made from the beans of coffee berries that have been eaten and excreted by the Asian palm civet cat this coffee which is known as kopi luwak or civet cat poop coffee can be found in cafés and coffee gardens in Bali and elsewhere.
Civet cats coffee bean. Civet cat coffee known in its original language as Kopi Luwak is the worlds most expensive coffee. They eat ripe coffee cherries freely on coffee plantations and cant digest coffee beans so the coffee beans are excreted in their droppings. As they digest the coffee cherries the enzyme in their bodies breaks down the cherries and removes the pulp leaving behind just the coffee beans.
The Civets in southeast Asia play an important part of the process. It is said that the internal stomach enzymes of the Civet cats ends up adding a unique flavor to the coffee beans removing its bitter flavor which is why the beans are then picked up by locals and sold for making coffee. The faeces of civet cats that have been eating coffee beans are held by a tourist in BaliABC.
Civet Café Ltd produces and supplies Philippine-sourced Civet Coffee from wild-roaming civet cats. Captive civets are sometimes fed only coffee cherries the fruit that produces coffee beans. Coffee firms say wild civet cats eat the ripest beans which gain a desirable flavour - but a BBC investigation by Chris Rogers suggests many are.
Xavier La CannaTo fight the caffeine the civets have to use calcium which comes from their bone. My Source of Civet Coffee. The civet selects and eats only the ripest coffee berries in the wild but it cannot digest the beans so it poops out these intact.
Arabica is the main type of coffee cultivated in Indonesia but Robusta is present too. The coffee firms say that the Civet cats eat the ripest red coffee cherry and digest the soft outer part of it but do not digest the inner coffee beans which are and excreted. In the wild their diet includes fruit insects and reptiles.
As a supplier myself I made sure my source processes cage-free coffee beans from wildly-roaming and wildly-living Civet Cats. In the cats digestive system the beans are subject to a set of unique conditions by mixing with digestive enzymes. Unsuspecting tourists from all over the world visit such cafés where theyre.