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Luxury food items can be rare and aren't often found at the local food mart. So which one takes the cake for the most expensive food item on our pantry shelves? Well, caviar and saffron are two of the most expensive.

Caviar is the salted roe (eggs) of the sturgeon. The roe from other species, eg salmon, is used to make mock caviar. Caviar is priced up to $2,400 for a one-pound tin of black fish eggs. After eating that caviar you can then wash it down with a $750 bottle of Krug Clos du Mesnil. While saffron is an "Old World crocus having purple or white flowers with aromatic pungent orange stigmas used in flavoring food " from "A corm-producing plant (Crocus sativus) native to the Old World, having purple or white flowers with orange stigmas." [A 'crocus' is A solid, swollen part of a stem usually found underground] Saffron spice has built a reputation for being more expensive than gold - fetching up to $2,700 per pound in recent years.

 

And then there's the $1.65 million fruitcake with 223 small diamonds from Tokyo, Japan. The cake is part of an exhibit called "Diamonds: Nature's Miracle." The fruitcake is edible (once the diamonds are removed of course) and took six months to develop and one month to make.

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