# How Is  FAKE Caviar made?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-is-fake-caviar-made/354363>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [April 26, 2006, 9:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-is-fake-caviar-made/354363 "2006-04-26T21:39:17Z")\
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**Author:** ![ralph124c](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/8797f3/32.png) [@ralph124c](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ralph124c)\
**Post date:** [April 26, 2006, 9:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-is-fake-caviar-made/354363/1 "2006-04-26T21:39:17Z")

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I just sample some-not bad! Same crunch as your teeth pop the little eggs-and the taste is pretty close to the rel thing. Given the cost of the real stuff, I find the synthetic stuff quite acceptable. I was also wondering: this stuff looks like sturgeon caviar, can they make synthetic salmon caviar?

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**Author:** ![WhyNot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c77e96/32.png) [@WhyNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WhyNot)\
**Post date:** [April 26, 2006, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-is-fake-caviar-made/354363/2 "2006-04-26T21:52:22Z")

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[Cavi\*Art](http://caviart.dynamicweb.dk/Default.asp?ID=41) does indeed make a salmon “caviar”. Their vegan synthetic caviars are made of seaweed.

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**Author:** ![Shalmanese](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shalmanese](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shalmanese)\
**Post date:** [April 27, 2006, 2:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-is-fake-caviar-made/354363/3 "2006-04-27T02:43:48Z")

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Ferran Adria makes an [Apple Caviar](http://starchefs.com/events/lo_mejor_de_la_gastronomia/2003/html/apple_caviar_f_adria.shtml). I don’t know if it’s the same process as fake caviar.