Ingredient Overview
Black truffle is an underground fungus best known for its distinctive culinary aroma. Tuber melanosporum supplies the fruiting-body material for this extract.
Black truffle extract is made from Tuber melanosporum fruiting bodies. The fruiting body develops below ground, giving black truffle a very different natural form from above-ground mushrooms. Its culinary reputation provides the background to this concentrated ingredient. The extract offers a way to feature the named truffle species in a dry formulation; its character will depend on the extraction used.