A white truffle weighing in at a massive 4.16 pounds (1.89 kilos) when discovered sold at at Sotheby's New York to a food and wine lover from Taiwan bidding by phone for $61,250; the white truffle sets the new world record for the Largest white truffle, according to the World Record Academy.

The Guinness World Records world record for the largest truffle is a Tuber magnatum pico weighing 1,483.596 grams (52.3323 oz) owned by food retailers Luigi and Angelo Dattilo of Appennino Food Spa in cooperation with Vittorio Palombo and Miram Ben Cetic of CTM S.r.l. Campobasso (all Italy). The white truffle was found by an anonymous truffle hunter and his dog in the Apennines woodlands around Savigno, near Bologna, Italy, on 4 November 2014.

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Source: http://www.worldrecordacademy.com/