11 Expensive Foods That Even The Rich Think Twice Before Eating

The world's most expensive Caviar is 'Almas' that produced from the eggs of a very rare female albino sturgeon between 60 and 100 years old originally hailing from southern Caspian Sea near Iran but they are now almost extinct in their native environment. You have to pay around $34,500 ( Over 25 lakh) per kg to buy it.

Known as 'red gold' hailing from the Middle East, it is the one of the most expensive species in the world which cost around $10,000 ( Over Rs 7 lakh) per kg. Its production requires a lot of patience and many hours of manual work to extract the small pistils from each crocus sativus flower. Around 150 flowers produce just 1 gram of dried saffron.

This is one of the most expensive mushrooms which grows in Japan's Tamba region. It is associated with the beginning of autumn and is considered a delicacy in the Japanese cuisine. Especially difficult to find and fragile, it is roughly priced between $1,000 to $2,000 (Rs 75,000 to Rs 1.5 lakh) for a pound (1 pound = 1.36 kg).

The rarest and most expensive coffee in the world is made from coffee beans that are collected from the feces of the civet, a small cat that lives in some parts of Asia. The cat eats the coffee berries and excretes the whole beans. As they can’t digest the beans, workers collect their precious droppings that are then washed, pounded, dried and roasted. It cost as much as around $600 (Around Rs 44,000) per pound.

Very popular in China, swallow nests sell for a high price. The main ingredient is the nest of the swiftlet bird which is usually found in Southeast Asia. The most common are white and black-nest swiftlet nests, which run between $5,000 and $6,000 (Approx Rs 40,000) per kg. The nests are also called the “Caviar of the East ''.