
Beluga caviar
Huso huso
50 g tin
- Name
- Beluga is reserved for Huso huso under Codex CXS 291 §7.1.1
- CITES code
- HUS. Beluga is CITES Appendix II and trades only with a valid label and permit
- Colour
- Light to dark grey, sometimes almost silver
- Character
- The largest bead, thin-skinned, creamy, almost no iodine
- Farming
- Aquaculture-raised; the fish matures for 15 years or more
- Salt
- Malossol, lightly salted. Codex CXS 291 sets 3–5 g of salt per 100 g; malossol itself has no legal definition
- CITES
- All sturgeon are CITES Appendix II. Every tin carries the universal label: species code / source / country / year / plant / lot
- Tin
- 50 g, opened in front of you; never decanted in advance
- Service temperature
- Served on crushed ice at 0–4 °C



