Truffle foods

In this category you can find creams, sauces, butter, salt truffle-based, made by Italian companies.

The truffle is a fungus that grows underground. The variety of truffles is defined according to the harvest period and their value depends on the greater or less availability. The truffle is very rare, is spontaneous and not cultivated and is collected in modest quantities only in some areas of Italy. The main edible varieties are the following:

• White Truffle (Tuber magnatum Pico)
• Black Truffle (Tuber melanosporum Vittad.)
• Black Winter Truffle (Tuber Vittad.)
• Black Summer Truffle (Tuber aestivum Vittad.)
• Bianchetto Truffle (Tuber albidum Pico or Tuber borchii Vittad.)