Eight of the World’s Most Expensive Foods

$50 per pound

This controversial delicacy is a pâté made from duck or goose liver that has been fattened.

$36-$54 per dozen

Over fishing and pollution has made this mollusk rare and this has bumped up its value.

$87 per pound

This meat product produced in Spain and Portugal, comes from free range pigs fed exclusively on a diet of acorns before butchering.

$110 per pound

This prized beef comes from any of four different breeds of Japanese cow raised to strict standards in the prefecture of Hyogo.

$350 per pound

Coffee beans eaten, partly digested and then defecated by this animal makes for a very expensive cup of Joe.

$1,030 - $1,286 per pound

These highly esteemed fungi are found in the Piedmont region of Northern Italy.

$1500 per pound

This spice is the vivid crimson stigma from a crocus flower, and is used as a coloring agent in food.

$3,200 - $4,500 per pound

This delicacy is the pickled roe of the sturgeon fish.