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
Similarly, betalains, the pigments responsible for rich reds and yellows, offer detoxifying and anti-inflammatory benefits but are excreted by the body without a visible effect on skin tone.
From Salon • Jan. 20, 2025
They also showed that about 30% of the seeds excreted by woodlice and earwigs remained viable.
From Science Magazine • May 8, 2024
They found that the bacteria converted cholesterol into intermediate products that can then be broken down by other bacteria and excreted from the body.
From Science Daily • Apr. 2, 2024
To the guards who walked up and down outside, each car became a single organism which ate and drank and excreted through its ventilators.
From "Slaughterhouse-Five" by Kurt Vonnegut
