PHOTOS: Gigantic Black Truffle Found in Istria
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Giancarlo Zigante with his black truffle (Facebook)
Istrian restauranteur Giancarlo Zigante has discovered a gigantic black truffle in Istria, Croatia which weighed nearly 5 kilograms.
Zigante would not reveal the exact location of the enormous find this week but the black truffle weighed just over 4.8 kilograms.
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The truffle weighed nearly 5 kg (Facebook)
In 1999, Zigante also found one of the largest truffles in the world near Buje in Istria. That truffle weighed 1.31 kilograms and has entered the Guinness Book of Records.
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Zigante did not say what he will do with this truffle, but he never sold his Guinness Book of Records truffle, which would have earned him a tidy sum, but instead served it to over 100 guests at a dinner he hosted to celebrate the find.
Most truffles grow to be about 30-60 grams in size, and according to the internet, the largest known black truffle found was 1.5 kg in Australia in 2016.