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In this era of dogs don't eat, there is an animal poop that is deeply loved by people, even if the price is high, it still can't stop people from liking it, it is cat coffee.
<h1 class=pgc-h-arrow-right data-track=9 what is cat coffee >? How was it discovered? </h1>
Cat coffee, actually called musk cat coffee, is native to Indonesia. At the beginning of the 18th century, the Dutch established coffee plantations in the Indonesian colonies of Sumatra and Java Island, which happened to have a wild musk cat, their favorite food is fresh coffee beans, coffee beans are swallowed by these musk cats after a series of complex fermentation and digestion processes, and finally the coffee beans are excreted into nature with cat feces, and then manually washed, dried, stir-fried and other steps, and finally formed cat feces coffee beans.
Coffee beans excreted by musk cats
The discovery process of cat coffee is also very interesting, at that time Indonesia was in the colonial period, the long-standing power holders of course did not allow plantation workers to pick coffee beans privately, the workers were naturally unwilling, their own hard-earned coffee could not taste, in order to taste the taste of coffee, the musk cat excreted cat was also taken home by these workers for cleaning and processing and was made into coffee, and finally found that the coffee made with this fermented coffee bean was more mellow and delicious than normal coffee Over time, cat coffee has become famous.
<h1 class=pgc-h-arrow-right Data-track=13 > how does cat coffee taste? Why is it so expensive? </h1>
"Profit-seeking and avoidance of harm" is the instinct of animals, wild musk cats like to choose the most ripe sweet, plump and juicy coffee fruits in the coffee tree as food, these coffee beans in the stomach of the musk cat after the completion of fermentation, destroyed the protein, produced short peptides and more free amino acids, coffee bitter taste is reduced, increased round taste.
Musk cat
People who like cat coffee feel that its flavor is unique, the taste is particularly mellow, and the rich and rounded sweet taste is unmatched by other coffee beans. Coffee critic Chris Rubin said, "The aroma is so rich and intense, and the coffee is incredibly rich, almost like a syrup." Its thickness and chocolate taste, and lingering on the tongue for a long time, pure aftertaste. ”
Of course, there are also people who feel that the taste of cat coffee is not satisfactory, and the American Specialty Coffee Association (SCAA) said that the consensus in the industry is that it tastes bad. SCAA quoted a coffee expert as saying, Obviously, the selling point of cat coffee is its story, not its quality. Tim Carman, a food columnist for the Washington Post, commented on cat coffee sold in the United States and concluded that it tastes like Froger coffee. It tastes rotten and lifeless. It was like petrified dinosaur soaked in the bath water, and I couldn't finish it. ”
Cat coffee is the world's least produced coffee, a bag of 50 grams of packaged coffee beans worth more than 800 yuan, can only brew 4--5 cups of coffee. Indonesia's largest coffee supplier Fireship Group produced the musk cat coffee small gift box e-commerce Shangpin Cafe selling price of 600 yuan 50 grams, packaging is extremely luxurious, and 100 grams of the asking price of more than 2,000 yuan, wild global annual production does not exceed 400 kilograms.
★ At the 2010 Shanghai World Expo, a cup of 12 grams of cat feces coffee powder sponsored by the Fireship Group was 380 yuan, and the 12 cups a day were in short supply.
★ In Bali, a cup costs more than 200 thousand (more than 200,000) Indonesian rupiahs, equivalent to more than RMB 150.
★ In the United States, 1 kilogram of cat feces coffee beans is as high as USD 1200. Always around USD 1000 on the international market.
★ In the UK, a cup costs 50 pounds (RMB 500).
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="31" > "poop" what happened to such an expensive musk cat? </h1>
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Many people may think that musk cats that can produce high-value products will be treated gently by humans, and you think that the picture may be: a group of lively and cute musk cats, bouncing around in the farm eating delicious coffee fruits, and then the shoveler keeps lighting their feces behind him. In this way, both the cat and the shoveler get the benefits, which is a proper win-win situation.
But is that really the case?
In order to make greater profits from cat coffee, many Indonesian producers raise musk cats in cages as small as rabbit cages, which are full of feces and urine, and almost only eat coffee beans for musk cats, and some even do not prepare other foods in order to make musk cats eat a little more every day. Under normal circumstances, musk cats will feed on insects and fruits, but producers only let musk cats ingest coffee beans, resulting in malnutrition of musk cats, and even because of the influence of caffeine, musk cats have mental abnormalities.
Musk cat in a cage
Man and animal are supposed to live in harmony, because man himself is the most advanced animal.
Cherishing every life and respecting every life is the unshirkable responsibility of each and every one of us.
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