Wild Truffles
There are also some wild truffle and truffle-like mushrooms in Finland. Find information about them.
JUVA TRUFFLE CENTER
Research
Juva Truffle Center is an active player in the world wide truffle research network.
Truffle art
Waad Krouna, who worked at Truffle center, has created magnificent art inspired by truffles.
Welcome to Juva Truffle Center
Juva Truffle Center was established at the city of Juva, Finland, in 2007. JTC was founded with an idea to cultivate truffles, making it a non-traditional and sustainable agro-industry that would benefit the rural economy. JTC has established several truffle orchards in Finland and has attempted to study the effect of the boreal environment with long winters and low winter soil temperatures on seedling survival, growth, and development of truffle ectomycorrhiza. Currently, there are 32 truffle orchards in Finland. One of these orchards is located in the Finnish President Summer castle. Apart from its goal to develop methods to cultivate truffles in Finland, JTC also aims at transferring the know-how of truffle orchards to landowners and other members of the business chain. The researchers at JTC also carry out fundamental research on truffles with the aim of using them for industrial and health applications. Juva Truffle Center is the only research center specialized in truffles in Finland.
The worth of truffles
Truffles are known for their intoxicating flavor and aroma and are a prized culinary ingredient. Truffles can add to a fine-dining experience, or could be used to create a flavorsome experience from the simplest foods. Despite their culinary appeal, truffles are rare to find, and most of the truffles available come from the wild. This makes truffles exquisite.
Truffles: not just a delicacy
Truffles are not just the palatable food that we know them for. Truffles have also been known for their various health benefits. We, at Juva Truffle Center, have begun our research on various health benefits of truffles. Our research has shown the possible use of truffles in treating diabetes, inflammation, as well as cancer. Truffles have also long known to be an aphrodisiac.
Why grow truffles?
The rare nature of truffles makes them valuable to the agricultural market. Growing truffles in rural areas provides employment opportunities as well as an extra income source to farmers. The use of various host plants to grow truffles also adds to afforestation, tackling some of the environmental issues. One could even grow truffles as a hobby.
Trained dogs are important for truffle hunting. Here’s our trained team discussing work.