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. Workers pick through their shit clean off the beans roast them and grind them to get civet cat coffee. A caged civet cat snacks on coffee berries in Bali Indonesia. Faeces collectors make the trek to the cats natural habitat in the primary forest and gather the droppings piece by piece bunch by bunch.

The coffee in question is Kopi Luwak for which enthusiasts will pay as much as 80 a cup. 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. When the cats civets eat the coffee berries fermentation of the coffee beans occurs in the cats digestive system.

Unsuspecting tourists from all over the world visit such cafés where theyre. 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 civet selects and eats only the ripest coffee berries in the wild but it cannot digest the beans so it poops out these intact.

During this process the cats proteolytic enzymes seep into the coffee beans thus creating shorten peptide as well as an abundance of amino acids. Due to Kopi luwak becoming increasingly famous many wild civet cats are captured and only fed coffee berries. Civet cats love to eat coffee cherries they often show up in coffee plantations to snack on the berries.

Xavier La CannaTo fight the caffeine the civets have to use calcium which comes from their bone. Made from the beans of coffee berries that have been eaten and excreted by the Asian palm civet or civet cat this coffee which is known as kopi luwak or cat poop coffee can be found in cafés and coffee gardens in Bali Indonesia and elsewhere. The Civets in southeast Asia play an important part of the process.

Enzymes in the stomach of the Civet Cat break down a protein in the coffee beans that is the major source of bitterness in coffee. 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. Firstly the palm civet that produces the Kopi Luwak can eat different types of coffee.