excreted
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Even Walmart’s website sells a roughly two-pound bag of Kopi Luwak coffee, which is made of beans excreted by a civet, for $449.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 3, 2025
They excreted a small fraction of the microplastics consumed, about four to six particles per milligram of waste, absorbing the rest.
From Science Daily ● Dec. 3, 2024
Artificial sweeteners such as sucralose are not metabolized by the human body so they are excreted – this is what makes them low-calorie sugar alternatives.
From Salon ● Jul. 17, 2024
They also showed that about 30% of the seeds excreted by woodlice and earwigs remained viable.
From Science Magazine ● May 8, 2024
The slime was bat guano, digested vegetable matter that had been excreted by a colony of fruit bats on the ceiling.
From "The Hot Zone" by Richard Preston
