The black truffle has an ugly appearance and a bad taste, and together with caviar and foie gras, it is known as the black truffle of the world’s three major dishes. And it’s expensive, why is that?
This is mainly because the price of black truffles is related to the environment in which they are grown and their nutritional value. There are many types of truffles in the world, and there are very few that can be used, which makes the already precious truffles even more scarce.
The white truffles from Italy and the black truffles from France are the favorites of the diners. White truffles are more nutritious than black truffles, and they are half eaten raw, but they are also thinly sliced and roasted with foie gras. The taste of black truffle is milder than that of white truffle, so black truffle is mostly made into truffle salt and truffle honey, but no matter what kind of truffle has extremely high nutritional value, it is rich in protein, 18 kinds of amino acids, of which 8 kinds can not be synthesized by the human body, it can be seen that truffles have extremely high nutritional value.
The truffle is very picky about the environment in which it grows, and it must be surrounded by dense vegetation and trees. The truffle is a fungus buried in the soil, buried in the ground and unable to photosynthesize so it cannot survive independently, which requires it to absorb the nutrients of other plants to achieve its own growth purpose. Truffles prefer an alkaline environment, and the land where truffles have been grown will become very barren and will not be able to grow anything else for a short time.
So truffles are extremely expensive.