Jakarta, CNBC Indonesia – Expensive food is synonymous with indicating a person's social status. Not only is it delicious, this expensive food is also made with high quality ingredients and special processing.
One of the foods that is known to be expensive is truffles, which are known as luxury mushrooms because they are known to be expensive in the culinary world. In Indonesia, two whole pieces of truffle mushrooms are priced at IDR 1.8 million on e-commerce platforms.
Who would have thought that the exorbitantly priced food of the 'sultans' was once just feed for pigs.
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Photo: Truffle Mushrooms (Ist Truffle.com)
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One of the countries that exports truffles is China. Last year alone, according to Chinese customs data, China managed to export 32.5 tons of frozen and fresh truffles. This number is an increase of 58.6 percent from the previous year.
Launch South China Morning PostYunnan Province is where most of China's truffles are sourced.
Before Chinese farmers learned how valuable truffles were in Europe and elsewhere, they were used as feed pig. PSichuan province first exported black truffles to France, Italy and Germany in 1994, according to reports from Jiemian News on Wednesday (21/2).
According to Tridge, an agri-food data company, China is the world's largest exporter of truffles in 2022, ahead of the Netherlands, South Korea and Belgium.
Yunnan Province produces 300 tons of truffles annually, about 10 times the annual production in France.
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