Larger beans, selective feeding, and medium-chain esters

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46:30were significantly larger than the manually harvested beans. Really? And that might be because the civet has some natural way of like >> picking which ones to eat. >> Oh, you know what I mean? It's it's not necessarily about what's happening inside. >> Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. They've just they're selective. They're selective about it. Um the other thing they realized was capryillic acid methylester and capric acid methylester. These are two types of medium um mediumchain fatty acids. Their name is derived the capric and the caprillic. Their named is derived from the Latin term for goat >> or capra. And they're basically these chains of carbon compounds that impart a desirable dairy or milk-like aroma
47:12>> and flavor. Okay. And and the compounds that came out of the civic gut had a higher concentration of this. So, we're saying Civet [ __ ] coffee is the goat. >> Yes. Very nice. Very [laughter] nice. Apparently, it is. Yeah. Um, so there's two things that can happen with the study. One, you can >> you can um target fraud. You can test for these compounds and be like, "This is not >> this did not come out of a civet."
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