Would you pay US$50 for a cup of elephant dung coffee?

by CNNGo staff

Civet dung coffee? Old news. The big story these days is coffee made with beans that have been pooped out by elephants. 

At least that's the claim of Thailand's Anantara hotels, which refines its own beans at its massive elephant camp behind its Golden Triangle resort in Chiang Rai. (More on that below.) 

"Research indicates that during digestion, the enzymes of the elephant break down coffee protein," says the resort in a release.  "Since protein is one of the main factors responsible for bitterness in coffee, less protein means almost no bitterness."

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But bitter-free coffee comes with a price. Black Ivory, as elephant dung coffee is called, retails at US$1,100 per kilo -- or $50 a cup -- making it one of the most expensive cups of Joe in the world.

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