Info about Caviar
Caviar production worldwide
We all know nothing defines better a luxury event than caviar and champagne.Caviar has been since its appearance on the market the image of luxury and it’s considered to be a delicacy.The caviar prices are extremely high,depending on the place it is coming from that determines their taste,colour,consistency and size.The most common places to get caviar are in the Caspian Sea,from the wild sturgeon species in countries like Russia,Azerbaijan and Iran.
A kilo of caviar can reach prices like US $ 7000 or even US $ 13 000 depending on its quality and the event it is used at.Because the caviar production is going so well there have quickly appeared imitations of it,but the taste can make the difference because the real caviar taste is unique.Caviar is imported world wide due to its popularity of consumption as a delicacy.The species of sturgeon that produce caviar are quite rare and its number is decreasing every year that is why people have tries to capture the four types of sturgeon Beluga,Sterlet,Ossetra and Sevruga and grow them on their own,but this idea is not a very good one because nothing compares to their natural habitat in the Caspian Sea.Wild caviar productions are popular only in AzerBaijan and Russia while other species are commercialized in the other contries that are related to the Caspian Sea.The pollution of the waters lately has made the caviar prices decrease with a few percents,but that depends on the area where the sturgeon is caught.Fresh sturgeon caviar is the most expensive of all,but there are other types of commercialized caviar,like the pasteurized one,which is cooked only by half and refrigerated,or the pressed one composed of eggs that might be damaged that have been pressed while salted and treated.A small amount of caviar,like a spoonful is a good source of B-12 vitamin,but this delicacy is not only full of benefits because it is known they are a source of cholesterol and salt,which are harmfull for the organism.
The biggest caviar producer is now Iran which exports every year more than 300 metric tones of it.It is followed by Rusia,that makes a lot of profit from the caviar productions.These countries have the biggest number of caviar farms where the process of producing it involves extracting the caviar from the sturgeon by surgical methods,which helps to female staying alive and producing more eggs in the future.This is a measure used due to the decreasing number of the sturgeons in the last few years.