Caviar is one of the most expensive foods in the world. There's a good reason for that: the Caspian sturgeon that the eggs come from are rare and getting even more so as the demand for caviar grows. One way to to alleviate the strain on those giant fish is to create an imitation caviar, and that's what one Japanese company has done.
According to Inventor Spot, the Hokuyu Company makes an imitation called Cavianne that looks very similar to the original. They say that it is also lower in calories than black caviar (which I had no idea was high in calories), in addition to being a way to stop the poaching and pollution that go into obtaining the real thing.
Cavianne has been around for a few years, now, but it's mainly sold wholesale to restaurants and hotels in Japan. Apparently the taste isn't quite up to snuff, but its inventor, Susumu Mikami, says that if he can get the taste of Cavianne closer to the real thing then his company will try to export it globally.
What do you think? Would you buy faux caviar?
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