Civet Cats Coffee Bean

Captive civets are sometimes fed only coffee cherries the fruit that produces coffee beans.

Civet cats coffee bean. 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. 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.

The small cats eat the coffee beans partly digest them and then ahem eliminate them with all of their other solid wastes. During the digestion process the bitterness of the coffee is removed. It is also called civet coffee.

Civets naturally produce genuine Kopi luwak. 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.

After about 24 hours the coffee beans are defecated by the civet cats. Xavier La CannaTo fight the caffeine the civets have to use calcium which comes from their bone. To make this coffee the civets are typically snatched from their homes and life in the wild to be imprisoned alone in.

When the cats civets eat the coffee berries fermentation of the coffee beans occurs in the cats digestive system. They have exquisite taste and eat only the finest ripest coffee beans they can find. The Civets in southeast Asia play an important part of the process.

Kopi luwak is a coffee that consists of partially digested coffee cherries which have been eaten and defecated by the Asian palm civet Paradoxurus hermaphroditus. 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. Civet Café Ltd produces and supplies Philippine-sourced Civet Coffee from wild-roaming civet cats.