Kopi Luwak
Also civet coffee
Coffee from beans that have passed through a civet, sold at high prices. Welfare concerns over caged civets and widespread mislabelling mean the trade is widely criticised.
RegionalServed hotFrom Indonesia
- Volume
- 150ml5.1 US fl oz
- Espresso
- 0shots
- Caffeine
- 60mgderived, USDA FDC
- Glass
- Mug200 ml
The build
Watch it made, step by step- coffee brewed from beans…150 ml100%
- Volume
- 150ml
- Caffeine
- 60mg
- Espresso
- 0shots
Scales every component together, so the ratio holds; caffeine scales with the coffee.
Brewed like any coffee; the distinction is the beans. Ethics note: most commercial kopi luwak now comes from caged, force-fed civets, and animal-welfare groups and certification bodies have condemned the practice; wild-collected claims are hard to verify.
Caffeine
Derivedin a 150 ml kopi luwak
USDA FoodData Central SR Legacy caffeine per 100 g scaled to the coffee volume in components, assuming 1 g per ml. FDC 171890 (Beverages, coffee, brewed, prepared with tap water) 40.0 mg/100 g x 150 ml.
USDA FoodData Central record 171890 · read 2026-10-26
A derived figure: the reference food's caffeine per 100 g scaled to the coffee in this build. Real cups vary with the coffee, the dose and the shot.
Variants by country
2| Name | Country | How it differs |
|---|---|---|
| Black Ivory coffee | Thailand | Elephant-digested beans; Wikidata records Thailand. |
| kape alamid | Philippines | Philippine civet coffee. |
History
Popular accountWikidata records Indonesia as country of origin and classes it as coffee and fermented food. The story of Dutch-era plantation workers gathering excreted beans is a popular account.
Indonesia and the Philippines; beans collected from civet droppings.
Parts of this story are repeated widely but were not confirmed against a source this atlas accepts. They are kept as the story people tell, not as fact.
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