First scientific method to authenticate world's costliest coffee, from the feces of the palm civet

Wednesday, August 21, 2013 - 20:00 in Mathematics & Economics

The world's most expensive coffee can cost $80 a cup, and scientists now are reporting development of the first way to verify authenticity of this crème de la crème, the beans of which come from the feces of a Southeast Asian animal called a palm civet. Their study appears in ACS' Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry.

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