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The coffee fruit is a berry. We just don’t ordinarily consume the skin and fleshy part.

• masklinn 7y ago
  > We just don’t ordinarily consume the skin and fleshy part.\ Do you mean they're edible?
  • stan_rogers 7y ago
    That depends on what you mean by "edible". Coffee cherries aren't particularly pleasant, at least not for human tastes, but they're strictly edible. Palm civets seem to like 'em, but not enough to make kopi luak cheap.
    • sitharus 7y ago
      The cheapness is mostly because the civets are kept in cages and only fed coffee cherries https://www.nationalgeographic.com/news/2016/04/160429-kopi-luwak-captive-civet-coffee-Indonesia/ https://www.nationalgeographic.com/news/2016/04/160429-kopi-...