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Anyone noticed how the article carefully avoids mentioning the worlds largest truffle producer, and instead tries to pretend its mostly Europe?

• barbegal 4y ago
  Who is the worlds largest truffle producer? As far as I can tell it is mostly Europe https://www.statista.com/statistics/766307/truffle-production-in-france-italy-and-spain/ https://www.statista.com/statistics/766307/truffle-productio...
  • trasz 4y ago
    https://www.truffle.shop/statistics-of-truffle-producer-countries/ https://www.truffle.shop/statistics-of-truffle-producer-coun...
    • barbegal 4y ago
      Those are stats for truffles and mushrooms combined. There is certainly less than a thousand tonnes of truffle production worldwide annually.
  • Fiahil 4y ago
    It is. And, as a matter of fact, the inoculation of oak trees and truffles is a carefully guarded secret of the INRA (https://www.inrae.fr https://www.inrae.fr). There is no natural occurrences of truffles outside the south of France, Italy and Spain.
    • trasz 4y ago
      Not true: https://gastronomica.org/2008/11/03/truffle-wars/ https://gastronomica.org/2008/11/03/truffle-wars/
      • Fiahil 4y ago
        > Chinese truffles (Tuber indicum), that is, a close relative of the French black truffle (Tuber melanosporum) [...] even ripe Chinese truffles are not wonderful [...] Although it doesn’t have the same powerful aroma or strong flavor, it’s a close approximation. AKA, a cheap Chinese knock-off.