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Caviar
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Published 2025
Caviar is the salted roe, or eggs, of the sturgeon. In the United States and Canada, any product labeled simply caviar must come from sturgeon. Roe from any other fish must be labeled as such (for example, whitefish caviar).
The most important caviar-producing countries have traditionally been Russia and Iran, both of which border the Caspian Sea, where the sturgeon are harvested. Sturgeon live in other waters as well, including North American waters. Production of North American caviar has been growing in recent years, in part because of difficulties obtaining caviar from the Caspian.