Civet coffee is highly prized for its unique flavor and rarity, but consumption comes with ethical questions. Wildlife smuggling routes exist all throughout Asia as do criminal smuggling enterprises ...

In 2007’s The Bucket List, Jack Nicholson’s billionaire magnate is a fan of a luxury coffee called kopi luwak, only to be informed that the beans first pass through the digestive tracts of civets and ...

It has been described as nutty, chocolatey, earthy and even fishy: a wildly expensive coffee that can sell for more than 100 times the price of regular brews, made from beans eaten and excreted by ...

Coffee beans collected from the faeces of civets have a unique chemistry that may explain why such beans are prized for their flavour. Asian palm civets (Paradoxurus hermaphroditus) are mongoose-like ...

Coffee beans harvested from the faeces of the Asian palm civet (Paradoxurus hermaphroditus) may have higher levels of fats and other key flavour-enhancing compounds than traditionally harvested beans.