About – Perhaps one of the most expensive fungi worldwide, because they are difficult to grow and find – they grow underground. They are prized for gourmet cooking. Truffles are hunted by pigs or dogs, who can smell the truffle beneath the surface of the ground.

There is a difference between the European Black Truffles and Oregon Black Truffles. The European ones are considered higher quality, no matter where they are grown.

Culinary Use – Black truffles are not something that is generally served at the dinner table, but rather, in high end restaurants where the price of the dish is more than this month's rent, and then they are used more for seasoning than as a feature food - which explains why truffle flavour and aroma are so highly prized (they have to go a long way!).

Tastes Like - Truffles have both pleasant notes, and unpleasant notes to me, and the flavour is overpowering if very much is used. It has a sweet almost chocolatey aroma, combined with a particular odor and flavour that is distinctive to truffles, and which most truffles possess in varying balances. I find the smell and flavour to be undescribable, but it is strong enough that if you have a ripe truffle in your fridge, your butter, and anything else not sealed tightly, will become flavoured with the truffle!

Medicinal Use – Truffles may help reduce the risk of heart disease, in men especially. They have not been used as extensively for medicine as other mushrooms because of their rarity.

Where to Find it- You can find Black Truffles of several varieties through specialty stores, and through a few stores that ship fresh, frozen, or dried mushrooms, online. You won't find them at the corner market, and most of the time you'll only find them in specialty stores in the larger cities.

Growing Info - Black Truffles are traditionally grown in orchards or forests, and are a Mycorrhizal mushroom – they grow in symbiosis with tree roots. They traditionally take 10-15 years to bear after inoculating the soil or tree roots in a forest or orchard. There may be methods for speeding up the process using natural alternatives. Truffles are a fairly complicated mushroom to grow, and not something that you should do if you cannot follow instructions and be patient.

Truffle Oil, one of the best ingredients in any chef’s kitchen because of its unique aroma and flavour. Apart from that it has numerous health benefits.

According to Gordon Ramsay (British Chef and Restaurateur), Natural Truffle Oil is “A Chef’s Dream”. Let’s know more about Truffle Oil and reason behind its popularity.

Health benefits

 It is a good source of high protein. Truffles have high protein content ranging from 20 to 30 percent for each serving. Experts say that truffles are excellent sources of high protein content which it very ideal because these contain all the amino acids necessary to good nutrition for humans. For people who don't consume fats and carbohydrates- specially to people who are having Western diets-truffles are very ideal since it is a fantastic source of protein.

It is in addition a moderate source of carbs. The main element of truffles and mushrooms in the main is carbohydrates derived from glycogen and chitin or also called the fungus cellulose which is a functional proponents of the fungal cell wall. All the same, compared to other vegetables, truffles have lower proportions of carbohydrates. This is in addition very good for people suffering from diabetes because truffles have low value of energy.

It is low-fat. As it is vegetable, truffles are ideal for individuals who cannot and do not want to consume too much fat. When dried, it has only about two to eight percent of fat which are mostly crude fat and lipid compounds such as fatty acids, sterols, phospholipids, glycerides and linoleic acid.

It is cholesterol free. This is probably the largest benefit to health of truffles. Through the years, cholesterol has been thought to be of the risk aspects of coronary heart conditions and other associated diseases. If you are inclined to stroke or heart attack or you have a family history any heart complaint, it would be great to consume cholesterol free food such as truffles to help you decrease your total cholesterol levels.

Synthetic Truffle oil has very little health benefits as it is made up of olive oil as a base oil and synthetic Easter but Real Truffle oil has more health benefits as it is made up of olive oil and original Truffles. Truffles have some health benefits which are given below:

Truffles are strong antioxidants

They are antibacterial

Truffles are anti-tumours

Now you came to know about different health benefits of Truffle oil, let’s know about it’s uses in day to day life