Following are the top 5 most expensive foods in the world:
Bitcoin Pizza
The guy who bought pizza with Bitcoin was a programmer and early miner named Laszlo Hanyecz. Hanyecz made a post on a Bitcoin forum offering 10k Bitcoin for two large pizzas. Eventually someone took him up on his offer and delivered two Papa Johns pizzas. At the time, 10,000 Bitcoin was worth $41.
Bitcoin Pizza cost about $268,848,700.- (today).
White Truffle
Found in the Piedmont region of Northern Italy, highly esteemed white truffles will only grow amongst the roots of certain trees, are much scarcer than any other type of truffle, and have a particularly intense flavor and aroma.
They can’t be cultivated or grown – although folk have tried for generations to farm the truffles, they can still only be sourced in the wild. It is this unpredictability, along with the lengths people go to locate and harvest them, which results in their hefty price tag.
The record sum paid for a single white truffle was by Macau casino owner Stanley Ho in 2007. He splashed out $330,000 (£165,000) for one of the largest truffles uncovered in decades – weighing 1.5 kg. A pretty extraordinary price for a pungent underground fungus.
White Truffle cost about $220,000.- per kg
Caviar
Caviar is the pickled roe of the sturgeon fish and considered one of the world’s great delicacies. It’s tricky to handle and package but, more significantly, it’s incredibly rare. The most famous caviar is from the beluga sturgeon – found in the Caspian and the Black Sea. Now critically endangered, very little of its eggs can be sold legally. It takes up to two decades for the beluga sturgeon to reach maturity and it’s adult size! Even rarer is the roe from the albino sturgeon - now almost extinct in its native environment. According to the Guinness World Records, the most expensive caviar recorded is from an aged (possibly 100 year-old!) albino beluga sturgeon whose white caviar sold for about $34,500 per kilogram.
Caviar cost about $34,500 per kg.
Ophiocordyceps sinensis
Ophiocordyceps sinensis (formerly known as Cordyceps sinensis), known colloquially as caterpillar fungus, is an entomopathogenic fungus (a fungus that grows on insects) in the family Ophiocordycipitaceae. It is mainly found in the meadows above 3,500 metres (11,500 ft) on the Tibetan Plateau in Tibet and the Himalayan regions of Bhutan and Nepal. It parasitizes larvae of ghost moths and produces a fruiting body which used to be valued as a herbal remedy in traditional Chinese medicine. Caterpillar fungus contains the compound cordycepin, an adenosine derivative. However, the fruiting bodies harvested in nature usually contain high amounts of arsenic and other heavy metals, so they are potentially toxic and sales have been strictly regulated by China's State Administration for Market Regulation since 2016.
Ophiocordyceps sinensis cost about $20,000.- USD per kg.
Bluefin Tuna
The Atlantic bluefin tuna is a species of tuna in the family Scombridae. It is variously known as the northern bluefin tuna, giant bluefin tuna [for individuals exceeding 150 kg], and formerly as the tunny. A 600 pound bluefin tuna sold for an eyewatering $1.8 million at Toyosu Fish Market in Tokyo in January 2020.
Bluefin tuna cost about $7,206 per kg
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