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Knowing Your Caviar

By: Joe Brainchild

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Caviar is fish eggs, called roe that are specially processed and is taken from certain types of fish, most notably the sturgeon which is the black caviar and salmon which is red caviar. It is marketed worldwide as a delicacy and is eaten as a garnish or a spread with horsdoeuvres.
This luxurious entrée is a sieved fish roe that is salted lightly. Sturgeon caviar is a premium type of caviar and is considered the original. There are three main types of caviar; beluga, oestra and sevruga. The best is from the beluga sturgeon that swims in the Caspian Sea, which is bordered by Russia and Iran. Caviar manufacturing is a key business for both countries. Beluga type caviar is valued for its soft, pea-size eggs and comes in a variety of colours from pale silver-gray to black. The medium-sized, gray and brownish coloured oestra, gray sevruga caviar which is smaller, is said to be the next in quality. The minute “golden sterlet” caviar is always in short supply that back in the day it was only given to Russian Czars, Austrian emperors and Iranian shahs. Other cheap and popular types include what is called the lumpfish caviar, which are small, hard black eggs, the whitefish caviar that also has small eggs, but they are yellow, and the salmon that is commonly called the red caviar which is medium-sized and the eggs are generally a light orange to a dark red in colour.
The word malossal on the label is not trying to tell you the type of caviar, it is merely stating that the roe is made with very little added salt; malossol is actually the Russian word for little salt. Caviar must be refrigerated continuously until it is finished because it is very unpreserved, although there is the pasteurized caviar, which is roe that has been partly cooked, thus giving the eggs a faintly different texture. It does not spoil as easy and may not need refrigeration before it is opened. “Pressed caviar” is made up of eggs that are damaged or can be damaged easily and may be a mixture of many different roes. Ensure that the label is read in order to obtain information regarding the handling of the caviar that you bought. Even though a spoonful of caviar supplies the adult daily necessity of vitamin B-12, it's also high in cholesterol and salt. You can however acquire roe that cost less, but is still popular, and has the quality of caviar from the North Atlantic salmon and the Whitefish; they are presently being sold due to the dwindling fish population that as resulted from pollution and over fishing.
Since August 1st, 2007 the harvest and sale of black caviar has been banned in Russia. The ban has been extended to 10 years, but scientific research and the synthetic breeding of black caviar fishes are exempted.
Commercial caviar production usually involves striking the fish (usually by clubbing its head) and taking the ovaries. The processes have since been upgraded.

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