Civet Coffee (Luwak coffee)

World's Most Expensive Coffee Powder (Civet Coffee)

300 US dollars per kg of coffee powder. It is made from the excrement of a Civet species found in abundance on the Indonesian islands.

Have you heard about the most expensive coffee powder in the world? It is the most expensive ground coffee in the world. 300 US dollars per kg of coffee powder. We can be really surprised when we hear that it is made from the excrement of an animal. It is the favorite drink of millionaires in Europe, America, and the Gulf States. Also known as Civet Coffee (Luwak coffee).

It is known as a precious drink. During colonial rule, the Dutch introduced Arabica coffee seedlings from Yemen to the Indonesian islands of Java and Sumatra. But the indigenous people were not allowed to pick the Arabica coffee beans themselves or grind them into coffee and drink them. Farmers have found a way to overcome it. An animal of the genus Civet, which is found in abundance in the Indonesian islands, eats a lot of ripe coffee beans. There will be a lot of undigested coffee in its trunk. They collected it, washed it, dried it, roasted it, ground it into coffee, and started eating it. That is the ancestor of Luwak coffee or Civet coffee.

By consuming ripe coffee beans, the coffee bean ripens in its stomach, in which many enzymes in the body of the weevil act on the coffee bean and cause chemical changes in it. Devaluing claims that Luwak coffee contains protease enzymes and short-chain peptides that are chemically modified. Previously, the dung collected from the Indonesian forests was dried and powdered, but now it is manufactured in the market by growing Civet in cages, feeding it with ripe coffee beans, and collecting its dung.