160406 USD, truffles are a very expensive food, the most expensive of which is Italian Alba white truffles. This kind of truffle is difficult to grow, so the price is hard to find. Once, a piece of truffle about 1.5 1 kg was sold for160,000 dollars. The buyer is an investor in Hong Kong and his wife. Truffles parasitic on the roots of oak trees are as promising as elves

Truffles require extremely high growth environment, can not be cultivated artificially, and the yield is scarce, which leads to their rarity and high cost. Therefore, Europeans rank truffles with caviar and foie gras as "three great delicacies in the world". At present, only white truffles have been found in Italy and Croatia in the Balkans.

It is the most famous one produced in Alba, northern Italy. In a good year, the world output of white truffles is only 3 tons, which is more precious than that of black truffles with an annual output of about 35 tons. . White truffles only grow from mid-June to the end of February. It's hard to find them. Truffle hunters usually use trained hounds to sniff them out.