The Most Expensive Food In The World

 
We all love to eat, and for that we usually do not have to part with a fortune. But if you are a real foodie and want to have the best of everything, such as a piece of beef from cows that every day enjoy a Thai massage, you will have to fork out.Prices for these delicacies seem this madness, but people are still willing to pay hundreds or thousands of dollars for something to taste exclusive products.





1. Kopi Luwak coffee a pound, which before drying passes through the digestive tract of animals musang, coming in the form of excrement, costs about $ 230.
 




 
2. Cheese made from moose milk can cost up to $ 1,000 per pound, and it can be found only in private elk farm in Sweden.
 3. Marbled Kobe beef, which is produced in the prefecture of Kobe in Japan, can cost anywhere from 770 to 1000 dollars per kilogram. The world's best beef produced from cattle that get daily massages and are fed the best grass and beer. All this provides a special marble meat tenderness, which, of course, can hit your wallet.


4. One kilogram of potatoes «La Bonnotte» can cost up to $ 630 per kilogram. This potato cultivated only on the island of Noirmoutier in western France. Its high cost due to the fact that each year, growing only a small amount of the potato, which has a unique and complex flavor that combines the taste of sea salt, lemon and nuts.
 


5. Bluefin tuna can be worth 1365 dollars per pound. So 269-pound tuna was sold at auction in Japan for 736,000 dollars.




 6. Matsutake mushrooms - this is a Japanese delicacy that can cost up to $ 2,000 per pound. The fungus grows only on the red pine in Japan, Korea and China and never grows to the same place twice. Has a sharp, spicy flavor and meaty texture.
 
7. Saffron is the most expensive spice in the world, whose price can reach $ 2,700 per pound. Although saffron is quite easy to grow, it is produced with up to 75,000 flowers by hand, and this is to get a pound of spice.
 
8. European white truffles can be sold for 3,600 dollars per pound. These fungi grow only underground on the roots of certain trees in certain regions of Italy and Croatia, and to find them farmers use dogs.
 
9. Black Densuke watermelon weighing 7.7 kg was sold in 2009 at auction in Japan for 6100 dollars. This type of watermelon grown only on the Japanese island of Hokkaido, which produces about 10 000 fruits per year.
 
10. Tea Teguanin refers to fine teas Oolong and can cost up to 6600 dollars per kilogram. Fortunately, its leaves can be brewed up to 7 times before it starts to lose its flavor.
 
11. Caviar "Almas", which is obtained from the albino sturgeon living in the Caspian Sea, is sold in a jar of pure gold for 25 000 dollars. The eggs have a pale amber color, and she caviar produced in Iran.
 
12. Royal Yubari melon - a rare variety of melon from Japan, which in 2008 was sold for 26,000 dollars per pair. Outwardly, this melon is similar to the most ordinary, except for the fact that it is perfectly round, and her smooth skin. Besides allegedly volcanic ash in the soil where it is grown, making it the sweet and juicy melon in the world.