The world’s priciest coffee beans are hand-picked out of elephant dung.Photo by Lize Mouton
BLACK Ivory Coffee company in Thailand allows elephants to consume Arabica coffee beans.
Then someone thoroughly goes through the elephant kak to collect the beans by hand.
As the beans are partially digested by the elephant’s stomach juices, this apparently makes Black Ivory’s coffee taste less bitter.
And since the beans “stew” in the elephant’s tummy with all kinds of juicy plants, this also influences the taste!
This is not the first type of coffee to come from an animal’s bottom. Expensive Kopi Luwak coffee comes from coffee cherries eaten and pooped out by the Asian palm civet.
