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- Authenticating the world’s most expensive coffee
Coffee cherries eaten by palm civets create the world's most expensive coffee. But blatant forgeries use beans that have never seen a civet's insides.
Aug. 26, 2013 - EarthSky - What a Relief: Authentication Method Developed for Civet-Poop Coffee
He's just not that into you. If you're like us, you probably only sip the robust, sublime brew that comes from coffee berries that were ingested, bowel-conditioned, and excreted by Asian palm civets . And somewhere along the line, you've probably thought to yourself, Damn, this tastes a bit like Folgers , but my palate must be having an off day because my civet-poop coffee costs $635 a pound ...
Aug. 23, 2013 - New York Magazine - First scientific method to authenticate world's costliest coffee, from the feces of the palm civet
The world's most expensive coffee can cost $80 a cup, and scientists now are reporting development of the first way to verify authenticity of this crème de la crème, the beans of which come from the feces of a Southeast Asian animal called a palm civet. Their study appears in ACS' Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry.
Aug. 22, 2013 - Science Daily