Beverages made from poop

Poop beverages are probably one of the most unfathomable things you've ever heard but it's real, people do eat dishes and drink beverages made from either human or animal poop. Take a look at these foods and beverages made from human waste. After all, with food, taste is highly subjective.

1. Feces Wine/Ttongsul

Making of Ttongsul

As indicated by its name, feces wine is an alcoholic wine made from feces. Dr. Lee Chang Soo is a traditional Korean medicine doctor who claims to be one of the last people who knows how to make the drink, given that the consumption of Ttsongul almost died out in the 1960s. Ancient Koreans claimed the drink could cure a host of diseases. Ttsongul is 9% alcohol and makes use of faeces from children aged six. Other ingredients include: boiled rice, yeast, and concentrated faeces water.

2. Panda Dung Green Tea

An Yanshi, a wildlife expert and super panda enthusiast from Sichuan, China, invented this tea in November 2011. It is currently the world's most expensive tea, with a cup costing about $200. Panda tea is cultivated in the mountains of Ya'an, Sichuan, and is fertilized by the dung of pandas. 

Panda excrement is said to be loaded with various vitamins and minerals that come from bamboo – what pandas primarily eat. The important nutrients are absorbed in the tea through the fertilization process. “Just like green tea, bamboo contains an element that can prevent cancer and enhance green tea’s anti-cancer effects if it is used as fertilizer for the tea,” says creator Yanshi.

3. Kopi Luwak/ Civet Dung Coffee

Coffee beans harvested from the poop of civets

Civet coffee is derived from coffee cherries that have been eaten, partially digested and crapped by Asian civet cats. As reported by Enjoyjava, Wild civets only eat the ripest coffee cherries (which make the best coffee) which ferment in their digestive tract. During this process of around 24 to 36 hours enzymes break down some of the beans' proteins – altering the taste and chemical composition of the end product. Once the coffee beans are excreted in the civet's poop, they are collected, washed, dried, roasted, ground and brewed. This is one of the most expensive coffees in the world, with its retail price reaching US$700 per kilogram.

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