Ten kinds of "expensive foods" known worldwide

Since food is a consumer good to the last, the price will be lower than cars and jewelry, but as the production volume is rare or the value of the brand increases, sometimes foods that become surprisingly expensive There is also. Below is a list of ten kinds of expensive foods known worldwide.

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◆saffron


Saffron is a perennial herbaceae family originating from the Mediterranean coast and its dried meat is used as spice or herbal medicine. Approximately 50,000 to 75,000 flowers are needed to make 1 pound (about 454 g) of spices, belonging to the most expensive category as condiment, from 1 pound 500 dollars (about 38,000 yen) to 5000 It seems that it will be traded in dollars (about 380,000 yen).

As a cuisine, it is an indispensable ingredient for Buchu base which is a local French cuisine, Spanish Paella, Indian cuisine saffron rice.

◆Train stationery


Tennis Sukuka is a luxury brand of watermelon that is produced and shipped in Takamachi, Hokkaido. It is characterized by dark green, no striped skin and high sugar content, it is easy to grow in size and cavities as varieties, high technology is required for production.

As watermelon, it is the most expensive brand in the world, and Tsunushu watermelon shipped to Sapporo city central wholesale market is known for being traded at a very high price every year at the first bid. The highest ever amount is said to have been awarded at the ridiculous price of 650,000 yen.

◆Yubari Mellon


Yubari melon is a melon that produces Yubari city in Hokkaido, a vivid orange fruit pulp, it has a melting softness and juicy characteristics. It is evaluated in 4 stages as "superior" "excellent" "excellent" "good", with excellent superiority such as sugar content 13% or more, weight 1.5 to 1.8 kg, mesh is more than 90% complete, etc. Assessment will be made based on standards.

The winning bid at the initial bidding is 2 boxes per box, and 2.5 million yen in 2008 is the highest amount.

◆Matsutake mushrooms


Matsutake is a mushroom growing in needle-leaf forests such as red pine, Pinus densiflora, Kometsuga, Tsuga, Pinus pumila and Ezo pine in autumn, has a distinctive strong scent and is the finest product in Japan as an edible mushroom. When the umbrella is opened like an ordinary mushroom, the taste falls, so it is necessary to collect at the time when the face is exposed slightly 1 cm to 2 cm from the ground surface.

It is in line with the market with a price of 1 pound from 90 dollars (about 6900 yen) to 905 dollars (about 70 thousand yen), but now it seems that most of Matsutake, which is distributed in the market, is overseas such as Chinese and American is.

◆Knipschildt Chocolatier"Chocopologie"


Chocopologie of Knipschildt Chocolatier is using the reservation system of Varona cacao and black truffle and is the most expensive chocolate in the world of $ 2,600 per pound (about 200,000 yen).

◆Kobe beef


Kobe beef was produced in Hyogo prefecture"Tajima beef (catfish)"It is an ultra-luxury beef brand that can be mentioned only when meets certain criteria even in meat that can be taken from. The Japanese Wagyu brand is recognized worldwide, the word "Wagyu" is used instead of "Japanese Beef", Kobe Beef is among the finest items among them, it is known as the world's most expensive beef I will.

As a price, it is on the market at 200 g at around 7000 yen to 20,000 yen.

◆caviar


Generally it is known as a sturge egg, but in Russia, the main production area, fish eggs are collectively called "Ikura", and caviar is called "Chohrnaya · Ekla (black fish egg)" . It is said that it is trading from 8,400 dollars (about 640,000 yen) to 15,500 dollars (about 1.9 million yen) per pound.

Today, prices are rising due to the reduction of catches due to the overfishing of sturgeon, and instead development of aquaculture and substitute products is proceeding.

◆White truffle


Truffle is a generic term for the mushrooms of the genus Seiro, and forms mycelial roots in the roots of hardwood trees to form lumpy fruit bodies in the ground. Among them, white truffle made in Italy traded from 1360 dollars (about 100,000 yen) to 4,200 dollars (about 330,000 yen), and the 1.5 kg super mega white truffle discovered in Italy in 2007 is just 220 thousand euros ( It is said that it was made a successful bid with about 24 million yen).

◆Swallow's nest


The swallow's nest is literally a bird's nest, it is used as a fine food ingredient in Cantonese cuisine. It is said that anatomes will spend most of their lives in the air and sleep while flying. Even when making a nest, we will not get down to the ground and collect tree branches and so on, we will form a nest with secretions from the salivary glands.

It is trading from £ 910 dollars (about 70,000 yen) to $ 4535 dollars (about 350,000 yen).

◆Money


Kim itself is not used as the main ingredient, but as a precious metal without problem even if you eat, it is often attached to cooking for the purpose of producing a high-class impression.

Since gold is precious metal in the first place, if it is fixed to unit price, it can be said that it is the most expensive ingredient, from 33,000 dollars (about 2.53 million yen) to 110,000 dollars (about 8,440,000 yen) per kg. However, in rare cases, the price seems to be overtaken, and the price of 24 million yen at 1.5 kg of the aforementioned white truffle is much higher than the price of gold.