Top 5 vegetables with familiar names but the most expensive in the world
Why would anyone pay a fortune for a root pulled from the ground? The vegetables on this list are not your average grocery store staples, and millionaires and billionaires are willing to pay astronomical prices for them. Why are they so expensive? For example, Japanese produce like Yamashita spinach, Matsutake mushrooms, and wasabi root require meticulous farming and harvesting methods, which drives up their prices.
1. Pink Lettuce - 230 thousand VND/pound
Pink Lettuce or Pink Lettuce is a recent vegetable that looks like a red cabbage but is extremely light in weight and has a slightly more bitter taste.
It is a completely natural vegetable and is expected to become more expensive as it becomes more popular on social media.
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2. Yamashita - 300 thousand VND/pound
Asafumi Yamashita is a vegetable grower born in Tokyo but raised in France. Yamashita’s vegetables are a highly regulated commodity, as they are sold to only seven clients, all of whom are Michelin-starred chefs. Yamashita’s vegetables take years to perfect, with a meticulous, meticulous care that is second to none. And that’s why he can charge $13 a pound for spinach.
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3. Wasabi - 1.6 million VND/pound
Only at high-end sushi restaurants can you enjoy fresh ground wasabi instead of processed. Wasabi is so expensive because the production process is so laborious that the plant is scarce. Wasabi only grows in the mountainous environment of Japan. Therefore, wasabi fields are often located on rugged mountain slopes, forcing farmers to trek for more than an hour along mountain roads to reach them. High-end sushi restaurants must get the root directly from Japan or from a wasabi farm in Europe.
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4. La Bonnotte Potatoes - 7.2 million VND/pound
La Bonnotte potatoes are known as the “king of potatoes” because of their high price and unique flavor. They are rare because they are only grown on one island off the coast of western France — Noirmoutier. Only 100 tons of potatoes are produced each year. Each potato must be picked by hand, so the work is very laborious. All La Bonnotte potatoes are fertilized by hand. They are only served in exclusive restaurants in France, and once you have tasted them, you will know why they are so expensive.
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5. Hops buds - 9.7 million VND/pound
Hop buds are the most expensive vegetable in the world today. These are the parts of the hop plant that are not used to make beer. They have a mild flavor, similar to kale.
The reason hop buds are so expensive is because of their scarcity and the elaborate harvesting process. Hop buds bloom only once a year in the spring, around March and April. They have to be picked by hand and are hard to find because they do not grow in rows. In addition, the hop buds are very small, so farmers have to pick hundreds of them to fill a bag.
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