Black caviar is one of the most expensive delicacies in the world. Its presence on the table testifies to its high status, and the price grows more and more rapidly every year.
What is black caviar?
Black caviar is categorized into different types according to taste, size, color, aroma and, of course, fish species. The most appreciated is the silvery beluga caviar, which is distinguished by the largest eggs, refined taste and the absence of specific aromas. The dark bronze sturgeon caviar is not so large and has a noticeable characteristic smell. Least of all is valued sevruga caviar with the smallest black eggs and a strong aroma and taste.
According to the type of processing, it is customary to divide all black caviar into roe, pressed and granular. Yastichnaya is caviar that has not been peeled from the film, this type of caviar can make an unpleasant first impression on an unprepared person due to the foreign inclusions present in it. Caviar is made from the fattest sevruga grains, and in some cases from a mixture of sturgeon and sevruga eggs. Granular caviar is made from resilient, strong, uniform in color and size eggs. This game is pasteurized, antiseptics are added, which allows it to be stored closed for up to eight months.
Ninety percent of all black caviar comes from the Caspian Sea.
How much can it cost?
When buying caviar, pay attention to its packaging. All legal caviar is in characteristic tin cans of ninety grams and glass containers of one hundred thirteen, fifty six and twenty eight grams. The lids of these containers differ in color. Beluga caviar can be found under blue caps, sturgeon caviar under yellow ones, and sevruga caviar under red ones.
Since caviar is made from fresh raw materials, which does not imply a technological method of freezing, it is made by companies located in the immediate vicinity of the coast. Almost all Russian black caviar is produced at a limited number of factories located in Volgograd, Astrakhan and Kalmykia. If St. Petersburg or Moscow is indicated as the place of production of black caviar, here is a fake product that was made from frozen raw materials or diluted with artificial gelatinous caviar.
The cost of the product acts as an important source of information. For example, a kilogram of beluga caviar (the catch of which is prohibited in Russia) in Russia can cost up to a thousand euros, and abroad - up to five to seven thousand. Russian sturgeon caviar in supermarkets in Russian cities costs about five hundred euros per kilogram, in the United States you will have to pay about one and a half thousand dollars for it. The most common sevruga caviar costs about two hundred euros per kilogram in chain stores.
Black caviar contains a full set of amino acids important for the human body.
Poachers are actively engaged in the extraction of black caviar. In fact, for every legal can of caviar, there are between twelve and twenty poaching caviar. These bounty hunters are seriously reducing the stock of sturgeon fish, which inevitably affects the legal prices for caviar.
