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# This Caviar May Be the Most Expensive Food in the World


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A fish farmer in Austria is offering a caviar dish that he says is worth $114,000 per kilo.

The white caviar “Strottarga Bianco” concoction includes rare albino sturgeon dried roe sprinkled with gold leaf, [according to the website](http://www.gruell-salzburg.at/de/caviar%5Fund%5Fkaviar/trottarga%5Fund%5Fstrottarga.php "undefined") for Walter Gruell’s fish farm. The dish is only available on customer order.

“It is certainly not a product for everyone, but there is definitely a market for extremely exclusive products especially when they are something new,” said Gruell’s son Patrick, who helped develop the caviar, according to Yahoo News.

According to the [Guinness World Records](http://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/world-records/most-expensive-caviar/ "undefined"), the most expensive food on record is also a caviar: Almas, from the Iranian Beluga fish, sells for roughly $35,000 per kilogram.

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