Civet Cats Coffee Bean
Civet cat coffee is basically made up of beans which are fed to civet cats.
Civet cats coffee bean. Civet cats love to eat coffee cherries they often show up in coffee plantations to snack on the berries. The coffee in question is Kopi Luwak for which enthusiasts will pay as much as 80 a cup. 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.
They eat ripe coffee cherries freely on coffee plantations and cant digest coffee beans so the coffee beans are excreted in their droppings. As a supplier myself I made sure my source processes cage-free coffee beans from wildly-roaming and wildly-living Civet Cats. Kopi Luwak tastes smooth and its not bitter like other types of coffee.
During the digestion process the bitterness of the coffee is removed. They have exquisite taste and eat only the finest ripest coffee beans they can find. In the wild their diet includes fruit insects and reptiles.
Civet Café Ltd produces and supplies Philippine-sourced Civet Coffee from wild-roaming civet cats. During this process the cats proteolytic enzymes seep into the coffee beans thus creating shorten peptide as well as an abundance of amino acids. A caged civet cat snacks on coffee berries in Bali Indonesia.
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. Due to Kopi luwak becoming increasingly famous many wild civet cats are captured and only fed coffee berries. Much like the history of it Kopi Luwak is created by harvesting the feces of civet cats.
Luwak coffee is known as the most expensive coffee in the world because of the way the beans are processed and the limited supply. Firstly the palm civet that produces the Kopi Luwak can eat different types of 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.