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Black Ivory coffee
Black Ivory Coffee is a brand of coffee produced by the Black Ivory Coffee Company Ltd in Northern Thailand from Arabica coffee beans consumed by elephants and collected from their feces.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 Frequently Asked Questions )〕 The taste of Black Ivory coffee is influenced by elephants' digestive enzymes, which breaks down the coffee's protein.〔 "Protein is one of the primary factors for bitterness in coffee. Less protein results in a coffee with less bitterness." The coffee beans are digested within 15 to 70 hours, and are present with various other ingredients in the elephants' stomachs, which imparts specific flavors to the product.〔 In contrast to civets who are omnivores, elephants are herbivores. Herbivores utilize fermentation to help break down cellulose (green leafy matter).
== Availability ==
Black Ivory coffee has been described as "very smooth without the bitterness of regular coffee" and is among the world's most expensive coffees, at US$1,100 per kilogram.〔 It has limited availability, and at a few luxury hotels it is available at the price of US$50 a cup. The supply of Black Ivory coffee depends on the availability of coffee cherries, the appetite of the elephants, the number of beans destroyed through chewing of the beans and the ability of the mahouts and their wives to recover intact beans. The high price of the product is largely due to the large number of coffee cherries needed to produce the finished product:〔 33 kilograms (72 pounds) of raw coffee cherries results in 1 kilogram (2 pounds) of the finished product.〔 Most of the beans are not recoverable because they are chewed by the elephants, become fragmented, or after being excreted are lost in the bush.〔
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