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With a price of about 1,000 to 2,000 euros per kilogram, black truffles are the second-most expensive truffles after white truffles and one of the most sought-after edible mushrooms in the world. [6] In cooking, black truffles are used to refine the taste of meat, fish, soups, cheeses, and risotto.
Desert truffles do not have the same flavor as European truffles, but tend to be more common and thus more affordable. Forest truffles (genus Tuber ) typically cost $1,000 per kilogram ; Italian truffles may sell for up to $2,200 per kg, while Terfezia truffles sold as of 2002 in Riyadh for $200 to $305 a kg, and in recent years have reached ...
Truffles were once sold at weekly markets (bi-weekly in the case of a market in Martel, Lot) and in quantities of two to six tonnes in good weeks, but only Lalbenque and Limogne today have weekly truffle markets. [63] Prices have increased so that truffles, once seen as a food of the middle class, have become a luxury. [63]
Tuber indicum, commonly known as the Chinese black truffle or the Asian black truffle, [1] is an edible fungus known for its hypogean fruiting bodies, characteristic of the Tuber genus. It is found natively in Himalayan India and parts of China, [ 1 ] but has also been found invasively in the United States [ 2 ] and Italy. [ 3 ]
The white truffle market in Alba is busiest in the months of October and November when the Fiera del Tartufo (truffle fair) takes place. [16] In 2001, Tuber magnatum truffles sold for between $2,200–$4,800 per kilogram ($1,000–$2,200 per pound); [17] as of December 2009, they were being sold at $14,203.50/kg. [citation needed]
The widespread genus contains 25 truffle-like species. [2] Elaphomyces is one of the most important ectomycorrhizal fungal genera in temperate and subarctic forest ecosystems. [ 3 ] E. asperulus , E. granulatus , and E. muricatus were found to accumulate arsenic (12–660 mg/kg in dry mass); the composition of organoarsenicals is very unusual ...
Tuber borchii, known as the whitish truffle or bianchetto truffle, [1] is a small, ... which is collected in autumn and early winter. It sells for some 300–400 €/kg.
It is a monotypic genus, whose single truffle-like species, Kalaharituber pfeilii, is found in the Kalahari Desert, which spans the larger part of Botswana, the east of Namibia and the Northern Cape Province of South Africa. [2] [3] [4]