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Eight of the World’s Most Expensive Foods

Here are a few of Planet Earth’s most expensive foodstuffs. How many have you tried?
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Last updated: June 14, 2019
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$50 per pound
This controversial delicacy is a pâté made from duck or goose liver that has been fattened.
Foie Gras
$36-$54 per dozen
Over fishing and pollution has made this mollusk rare and this has bumped up its value.
Oysters
$87 per pound
This meat product produced in Spain and Portugal, comes from free range pigs fed exclusively on a diet of acorns before butchering.
Iberico Ham
$110 per pound
This prized beef comes from any of four different breeds of Japanese cow raised to strict standards in the prefecture of Hyogo.
Kobe Beef
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$350 per pound
Coffee beans eaten, partly digested and then defecated by this animal makes for a very expensive cup of Joe.
Civet Coffee
$1,030 - $1,286 per pound
These highly esteemed fungi are found in the Piedmont region of Northern Italy.
White Truffle
$1500 per pound
This spice is the vivid crimson stigma from a crocus flower, and is used as a coloring agent in food.
Saffron
$3,200 - $4,500 per pound
This delicacy is the pickled roe of the sturgeon fish.
Caviar
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