is it true coffe is made from racoon poop?

Question

i heard on t.v im not fooling aruond please be honest.
does that qulifie for all coffe sold in america

Answer 1

How did you find out? Also: tea is monkey pee.
But, without kidding, there is some truth to your statement.
In Indonesia there is a coffee-berry-eating animal not unlike a raccoon, called Luwak (pronounced loo-wak). In its droppings the undigested coffee beans are found. These beans are of the best quality because the animal only eats the best berries. Furthermore in its stomach and intestines the beans are fermented somewhat, which gives them their optimal taste.
Maybe this seems yucky to you, but some people pay exorbitant prices for this type of coffee.
In answer to your last question: No, that would make it too expensive and possibly the health department would not allow it.

Answer 2

You are thinking of the Civit. Normally coffee planters do not have issues with any animals, as none of them touch the coffee beans, except the common palm civet. The civet loves coffee berries and when it eats them, the civet only digests the fruit and the actually coffee bean, comes out in its droppings.
People believe that these civets know how ripe these berries are and they always pick the berries which are just right. So it's safe to assume that the coffee beans in those berries will be the best too. It is also believed that enzymes in the stomach of the civet add to the coffee's flavor by breaking down the proteins that give coffee its bitter taste. In many south asian countries, these civet droppings are collected, processed and are sold in International market. Since these dropping are rare to find, in the whole world, only 500 KGs of this coffee is produced every year, making it the "rarest" and the "costliest" coffee in the world. The processed coffee costs about $800/KG and unprocessed beans cost about $350/KG. In India, this coffee is produced only in BR Hills by a person named Ganesh, who leaves his coffee plantations for the Civets.


Personally I think that's gross, but my thinking it's icky is another person's delicay:)

Answer 3

For a non-coffee drinker, as far as I know coffee is made from coffee beans. Most come from South America, although I think some comes from India. Have you gone to the search engine Google and looked up coffee or coffee beans?

Answer 4

How gross!!!!!!!!! Where did you get the idea that coffee comes from racoon manure, let alone one or the other? All my life I heard it cone from coffee beans (which are grown), the coffee goes through different processes before being packaged to a varity of companies which are made for different types such as instant, ect.
Coffee is not made from caffine, caffine is already there and caffine is removed,most by chemicals.

Answer 5

Kopi Luwak is likely what you're wondering about: right it truly is a quote from the web website I stated: "On those Indonesian islands, there's a small marsupial called the paradoxurus, a tree-living animal it is area of the sibet kin. lengthy recognized by technique of the natives as pests, they climb between the espresso trees eating only the ripest, reddest espresso cherries. Who is conscious who first considered it, or how or why, yet what those animals devour they ought to also digest and finally excrete. some brazen or desparate -- or purely lazy -- community accumulated the beans, which come by potential of the digestion procedure quite intact, nevertheless wrapped in layers of the cherries' mucilage. The enzymes contained in the animals' stomachs, in spite of the indisputable fact that, look to operate some thing unique to the espresso's style by potential of fermentation."

Answer 6

It's called a palm civet, which is kind of like a racoon.

It eats the beans, but can't digest them.

When they pass, the beans are collected and then turned in to a coffee which is very expensive ... go figure.

Answer 7

There is a coffee that comes from a Civet, a cat like animal.. They eat the beans and crap them back out. Supposedly it is the best coffee ever.. (This is just what I heard.. I hate all coffee equally) It is VERY expensive and makes Starbucks look like Wal-Mart brand coffee.

Answer 8

Your TV shows much really suck then.

There are some real expensive coffee beans that have been pooped out by giant pig like creatures of south america but not most isn't. Its bean from the tree.

Answer 9

not all coffees but there is a coffee that is made by the animals (not sure if racoons) eat the coffee beans but cant digest them. It is very expensive and only sold in certain shops

Answer 10

False