Black Truffle

What Is Black Truffle?

The black truffle is the underground fruiting body of a fungus, prized as one of the finest and most expensive foods in the world. It is also called the Périgord truffle, after the region of south-western France most associated with it ^{13,15Reference 13Allen et al. · 2021ReviewTour of Truffles: Aromas, Aphrodisiacs, Adaptogens, and More — reviewView study →Reference 15O’ReillyTuber melanosporum VittadView study →}.

Tuber melanosporum grows in partnership with the roots of oak and hazel in southern Europe, chiefly France, Spain and Italy. It is now the most widely cultivated truffle, grown on inoculated trees in Europe, Australia, New Zealand, the United States and South Africa ^{14,15,16Reference 14Epping et al. · 2022Marker Substances in the Aroma of Truffles — analyticalView study →Reference 15O’ReillyTuber melanosporum VittadView study →Reference 16Qin et al. · 2022ReviewLife Cycle and Phylogeography of True Truffles — reviewView study →}.

Its aroma is led by dimethyl sulfide and other volatile sulfur compounds ^{13,14Reference 13Allen et al. · 2021ReviewTour of Truffles: Aromas, Aphrodisiacs, Adaptogens, and More — reviewView study →Reference 14Epping et al. · 2022Marker Substances in the Aroma of Truffles — analyticalView study →}. Research on its health effects is limited to a small number of rat, mouse and cell studies of concentrated extracts, mostly on blood sugar ^{2,3,5Reference 2Zhang T et al. · 2018AnimalBlack Truffle Aqueous Extract Attenuates Oxidative Stress and Inflammation in STZ-Induced Hyperglycemic Rats via Nrf2 and NF-κB Pathways — animal modelView study →Reference 3Zhang T et al. · 2020AnimalThe Black Truffle, Tuber melanosporum, Ameliorates Hyperglycemia and Regulates Insulin Signaling Pathway in STZ-Induced Diabetic Rats — animal modelView study →Reference 5Jiang X et al. · 2018AnimalThe anti-fatigue activities of Tuber melanosporum in a mouse model — animal modelView study →}.

The Chinese black truffle, Tuber indicum, looks very similar but has little flavour or aroma. It is sometimes sold in its place, coated with truffle oil to imitate the scent ^{13,14Reference 13Allen et al. · 2021ReviewTour of Truffles: Aromas, Aphrodisiacs, Adaptogens, and More — reviewView study →Reference 14Epping et al. · 2022Marker Substances in the Aroma of Truffles — analyticalView study →}.

How Is Black Truffle Used?

• Fresh truffle — shaved very thinly over food at the table, a few grams at a time ^{15Reference 15O’ReillyTuber melanosporum VittadView study →}.
• Truffle-infused products — oils, butters and salts. Most truffle oil is flavoured synthetically, with little or no real truffle in it ^{14,15Reference 14Epping et al. · 2022Marker Substances in the Aroma of Truffles — analyticalView study →Reference 15O’ReillyTuber melanosporum VittadView study →}.
• Research extracts — water, polysaccharide and pressurised-liquid extracts, used only in laboratory and animal studies ^{2,3,9Reference 2Zhang T et al. · 2018AnimalBlack Truffle Aqueous Extract Attenuates Oxidative Stress and Inflammation in STZ-Induced Hyperglycemic Rats via Nrf2 and NF-κB Pathways — animal modelView study →Reference 3Zhang T et al. · 2020AnimalThe Black Truffle, Tuber melanosporum, Ameliorates Hyperglycemia and Regulates Insulin Signaling Pathway in STZ-Induced Diabetic Rats — animal modelView study →Reference 9Tejedor-Calvo E et al. · 2020In vitroScreening of bioactive compounds in truffles and evaluation of pressurized liquid extractions (PLE) to obtain fractions with biological activities — in vitroView study →}.

Traditional Uses

European Culinary Tradition

The black truffle’s tradition is a culinary one. Périgueux, in the Périgord, is the main centre of black truffle production ^{13Reference 13Allen et al. · 2021ReviewTour of Truffles: Aromas, Aphrodisiacs, Adaptogens, and More — reviewView study →}.

Because truffles grow underground, they have traditionally been found with animals that follow their scent. The French used sows, and trained dogs are now more common because they are easier to handle and less likely to eat the find ^{13Reference 13Allen et al. · 2021ReviewTour of Truffles: Aromas, Aphrodisiacs, Adaptogens, and More — reviewView study →}.

In the early nineteenth century a French farmer, Joseph Talon, began raising truffle beds by planting acorns from trees that already produced truffles. His method was the standard way to grow the black truffle for more than 150 years, until nursery inoculation of seedlings replaced it ^{13Reference 13Allen et al. · 2021ReviewTour of Truffles: Aromas, Aphrodisiacs, Adaptogens, and More — reviewView study →}.

Mycology

The black truffle is the fruiting body of an ascomycete fungus in the truffle family, Tuberaceae, in the order Pezizales ^{13,15Reference 13Allen et al. · 2021ReviewTour of Truffles: Aromas, Aphrodisiacs, Adaptogens, and More — reviewView study →Reference 15O’ReillyTuber melanosporum VittadView study →}. Like other truffles, it has no stalk or gills, and it forms and ripens entirely underground ^{13Reference 13Allen et al. · 2021ReviewTour of Truffles: Aromas, Aphrodisiacs, Adaptogens, and More — reviewView study →}.

The fruiting body is an irregular lump, sometimes roughly round and often lobed. It is typically a few centimetres across and weighs 50–200 g, although specimens over 1 kg are occasionally found ^{15Reference 15O’ReillyTuber melanosporum VittadView study →}.

The outer skin is dark brown to black and covered in small polygonal warts separated by shallow grooves. Inside, the dark spore-bearing flesh is marbled with a random network of white veins ^{15Reference 15O’ReillyTuber melanosporum VittadView study →}. The black pigments are melanins ^{13Reference 13Allen et al. · 2021ReviewTour of Truffles: Aromas, Aphrodisiacs, Adaptogens, and More — reviewView study →}.

The spores are ellipsoidal, 29–55 × 22–35 µm, and covered in spines 2–4 µm long. The name melanosporum means “with black spores” ^{15Reference 15O’ReillyTuber melanosporum VittadView study →}.

The black truffle is ectomycorrhizal: its threads sheathe the fine roots of its host tree and trade soil nutrients for sugars ^{13Reference 13Allen et al. · 2021ReviewTour of Truffles: Aromas, Aphrodisiacs, Adaptogens, and More — reviewView study →}. Its main hosts are oaks, including cork oak, and hazel. It occasionally grows with hornbeam and pine ^{15Reference 15O’ReillyTuber melanosporum VittadView study →}.

Because it fruits underground, it cannot release its spores into the air. Instead its aroma draws animals, which dig it up, eat it and spread the spores ^{1,15Reference 1Splivallo R et al. · 2011ReviewTruffle volatiles: from chemical ecology to aroma biosynthesis — reviewView study →Reference 15O’ReillyTuber melanosporum VittadView study →}.

The black truffle has two mating types, and a fruiting body forms only when strains of both meet. The truffle’s flesh comes from the strain already living on the tree roots, and the partner strain probably comes from spores germinating in the soil ^{16Reference 16Qin et al. · 2022ReviewLife Cycle and Phylogeography of True Truffles — reviewView study →}.

Distribution

The black truffle grows wild in France, Spain and Italy, with small quantities in Slovenia and Croatia. It has not been recorded from Britain or Ireland ^{15Reference 15O’ReillyTuber melanosporum VittadView study →}. Genetic studies point to the Italian and Iberian peninsulas as its refuges during the last ice age ^{16Reference 16Qin et al. · 2022ReviewLife Cycle and Phylogeography of True Truffles — reviewView study →}.

Truffle species generally favour warm, fairly dry climates and calcareous soils ^{13Reference 13Allen et al. · 2021ReviewTour of Truffles: Aromas, Aphrodisiacs, Adaptogens, and More — reviewView study →}. Most black truffles sold today are cultivated, and plantations have been established in Australia, New Zealand, the United States and South Africa ^{14,16Reference 14Epping et al. · 2022Marker Substances in the Aroma of Truffles — analyticalView study →Reference 16Qin et al. · 2022ReviewLife Cycle and Phylogeography of True Truffles — reviewView study →}.

Cultivation

Cultivation snapshot for Black Truffle

Sourcecultivated (trufficulture)Hostinoculated oak or hazelSubstratecalcareous, well-drained soilEaseslow — 4–10 years to first harvest

• Grown through trufficulture — oak or hazel seedlings are inoculated with truffle spores in the nursery, then planted out into prepared ground.
• Demands loose, well-drained, calcareous (alkaline, limestone) soil and a warm Mediterranean climate with distinct seasons and some summer moisture.
• Slow and speculative: the first truffles usually appear only 4–10 years after planting, and yields depend on the right soil biology establishing itself.
• Harvested in winter with trained dogs (or, traditionally, pigs) that scent the ripe truffles below ground.

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Phytochemistry

The black truffle’s aroma comes from a blend of volatile compounds. In one analysis, dimethyl sulfide made up about 45% of the volatiles above a black truffle, and truffle dogs probably locate it mainly by dimethyl sulfide and dimethyl disulfide ^{14Reference 14Epping et al. · 2022Marker Substances in the Aroma of Truffles — analyticalView study →}.

Other aroma compounds identified in the black truffle include diacetyl, ethyl butyrate, 3-methyl-1-butanol and 3-ethyl-5-methylphenol ^{13Reference 13Allen et al. · 2021ReviewTour of Truffles: Aromas, Aphrodisiacs, Adaptogens, and More — reviewView study →}.

2,4-Dithiapentane (bis(methylthio)methane) is the marker compound of the white truffle, Tuber magnatum, where it made up about 44% of the volatiles. It is also a main ingredient of commercial truffle oils, including one sold as black truffle oil ^{14Reference 14Epping et al. · 2022Marker Substances in the Aroma of Truffles — analyticalView study →}.

The steroid androstenol, also found in boar saliva, has been reported as an odour component of truffles ^{13Reference 13Allen et al. · 2021ReviewTour of Truffles: Aromas, Aphrodisiacs, Adaptogens, and More — reviewView study →}.

Carbohydrates are the main nutrient in the black truffle, followed by protein, and its fats are mostly polyunsaturated ^{6Reference 6Tejedor-Calvo E et al. · 2021In vitroChemical composition and evaluation of antioxidant, antimicrobial and antiproliferative activities of Tuber and Terfezia truffles — in vitroView study →}. Its polysaccharides are built mainly from mannose and glucose ^{7Reference 7Guan T et al. · 2022In vitroComparison of structural and antioxidant activity of polysaccharide extracted from truffles — in vitroView study →}.

In a screen of several truffle species, pressurised-liquid extraction produced fractions containing 9.1% β-glucan and 4.5% of the fungal sterol ergosterol ^{9Reference 9Tejedor-Calvo E et al. · 2020In vitroScreening of bioactive compounds in truffles and evaluation of pressurized liquid extractions (PLE) to obtain fractions with biological activities — in vitroView study →}.

Volatile profiles vary with ripeness, origin and storage, and many published aroma figures come from other Tuber species ^{1,14Reference 1Splivallo R et al. · 2011ReviewTruffle volatiles: from chemical ecology to aroma biosynthesis — reviewView study →Reference 14Epping et al. · 2022Marker Substances in the Aroma of Truffles — analyticalView study →}.

Constituent Summary

Aroma compounds are given as a share of the measured volatiles.

Pharmacology & Research

About a dozen laboratory and animal studies have been published on Tuber melanosporum. There are no human trials.

The largest line of work is three studies in diabetic rats from one research group, testing an oral truffle extract. One of the three has since been retracted ^{2,3,4Reference 2Zhang T et al. · 2018AnimalBlack Truffle Aqueous Extract Attenuates Oxidative Stress and Inflammation in STZ-Induced Hyperglycemic Rats via Nrf2 and NF-κB Pathways — animal modelView study →Reference 3Zhang T et al. · 2020AnimalThe Black Truffle, Tuber melanosporum, Ameliorates Hyperglycemia and Regulates Insulin Signaling Pathway in STZ-Induced Diabetic Rats — animal modelView study →Reference 4Wu Z et al. · 2022In vitroBlack Truffle Extract Exerts Antidiabetic Effects through Inhibition of Inflammation and Lipid Metabolism Regulation — in vitro and animal modelView study →}. Smaller studies have tested antioxidant, anti-inflammatory, anti-fatigue, antitumour and antimicrobial activity in cells and mice ^{5,6,7,8,9,10Reference 5Jiang X et al. · 2018AnimalThe anti-fatigue activities of Tuber melanosporum in a mouse model — animal modelView study →Reference 6Tejedor-Calvo E et al. · 2021In vitroChemical composition and evaluation of antioxidant, antimicrobial and antiproliferative activities of Tuber and Terfezia truffles — in vitroView study →Reference 7Guan T et al. · 2022In vitroComparison of structural and antioxidant activity of polysaccharide extracted from truffles — in vitroView study →Reference 8Zhao W et al. · 2014In vitroIsolation and characterization of polysaccharides with the antitumor activity from Tuber fruiting bodies and fermentation system — in vitroView study →Reference 9Tejedor-Calvo E et al. · 2020In vitroScreening of bioactive compounds in truffles and evaluation of pressurized liquid extractions (PLE) to obtain fractions with biological activities — in vitroView study →Reference 10JACQUET J · 1947In vitroOn the antibiotic properties of Tuber melanosporum Vitt — in vitro. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/18900726/View study →}.

1. Antidiabetic

In rats made diabetic with streptozotocin, a truffle extract given by mouth at 200, 400 or 600 mg/kg for 45 days lowered blood glucose, improved glucose tolerance and raised insulin. It also restored the activity of the glucose-handling enzymes hexokinase, glucose-6-phosphatase and fructose-1,6-bisphosphatase, with results similar to the drug glibenclamide ^{3Reference 3Zhang T et al. · 2020AnimalThe Black Truffle, Tuber melanosporum, Ameliorates Hyperglycemia and Regulates Insulin Signaling Pathway in STZ-Induced Diabetic Rats — animal modelView study →}.

A companion study reported lower glucose and restored SOD, catalase and vitamins C and E, with Nrf2 and NF-κB gene expression brought back to normal levels ^{2Reference 2Zhang T et al. · 2018AnimalBlack Truffle Aqueous Extract Attenuates Oxidative Stress and Inflammation in STZ-Induced Hyperglycemic Rats via Nrf2 and NF-κB Pathways — animal modelView study →}.

⚠ A third study, reporting improved blood lipids and lower TNF-α and IL-6, was retracted in 2024 ^{4Reference 4Wu Z et al. · 2022In vitroBlack Truffle Extract Exerts Antidiabetic Effects through Inhibition of Inflammation and Lipid Metabolism Regulation — in vitro and animal modelView study →}.

All three share one design, one model and one comparator, and come from the same research group ^{2,3,4Reference 2Zhang T et al. · 2018AnimalBlack Truffle Aqueous Extract Attenuates Oxidative Stress and Inflammation in STZ-Induced Hyperglycemic Rats via Nrf2 and NF-κB Pathways — animal modelView study →Reference 3Zhang T et al. · 2020AnimalThe Black Truffle, Tuber melanosporum, Ameliorates Hyperglycemia and Regulates Insulin Signaling Pathway in STZ-Induced Diabetic Rats — animal modelView study →Reference 4Wu Z et al. · 2022In vitroBlack Truffle Extract Exerts Antidiabetic Effects through Inhibition of Inflammation and Lipid Metabolism Regulation — in vitro and animal modelView study →}.

Gap: the active preparation is a concentrated water extract at 200–600 mg/kg in rats, which is not what eating truffle delivers, and there are no human data.

2. Antioxidant

In a chemical comparison of ten Tuber and Terfezia species, the white truffle, T. magnatum, had the highest phenolic content and the strongest antioxidant activity. T. melanosporum ranked lower ^{6Reference 6Tejedor-Calvo E et al. · 2021In vitroChemical composition and evaluation of antioxidant, antimicrobial and antiproliferative activities of Tuber and Terfezia truffles — in vitroView study →}.

Purified polysaccharides from T. melanosporum and from the summer truffle, T. aestivum, both protected pig intestinal cells from hydrogen-peroxide damage. The T. aestivum polysaccharide was more effective, and it was the one that raised the cells’ superoxide dismutase and catalase ^{7Reference 7Guan T et al. · 2022In vitroComparison of structural and antioxidant activity of polysaccharide extracted from truffles — in vitroView study →}.

In diabetic rats, the truffle extract restored SOD, catalase and vitamins C and E ^{2Reference 2Zhang T et al. · 2018AnimalBlack Truffle Aqueous Extract Attenuates Oxidative Stress and Inflammation in STZ-Induced Hyperglycemic Rats via Nrf2 and NF-κB Pathways — animal modelView study →}.

Gap: the activity comes from polysaccharides and phenolics common to many edible fungi, and in the comparative studies other truffle species were stronger.

3. Anti-Inflammatory

A pressurised-liquid truffle extract enriched in (1→3)-β-glucan and ergosterol reduced IL-1β secretion by about 40% and IL-6 by about 60% in stimulated THP-1 human immune cells ^{9Reference 9Tejedor-Calvo E et al. · 2020In vitroScreening of bioactive compounds in truffles and evaluation of pressurized liquid extractions (PLE) to obtain fractions with biological activities — in vitroView study →}.

In diabetic rats, the truffle extract brought NF-κB expression back to normal ^{2Reference 2Zhang T et al. · 2018AnimalBlack Truffle Aqueous Extract Attenuates Oxidative Stress and Inflammation in STZ-Induced Hyperglycemic Rats via Nrf2 and NF-κB Pathways — animal modelView study →}.

Gap: the effective fraction is a concentrated β-glucan and ergosterol preparation, not the food, and no inflammatory model beyond diabetes has been tested.

4. Anti-Fatigue

In BALB/c mice, two weeks of T. melanosporum raised liver and muscle ATP and glycogen after a 30-minute swim, and lowered serum lactic acid and lactate dehydrogenase. It also lowered reactive oxygen species and malondialdehyde and raised superoxide dismutase and glutathione peroxidase ^{5Reference 5Jiang X et al. · 2018AnimalThe anti-fatigue activities of Tuber melanosporum in a mouse model — animal modelView study →}.

The same study found changes in sex hormones that differed between male and female mice ^{5Reference 5Jiang X et al. · 2018AnimalThe anti-fatigue activities of Tuber melanosporum in a mouse model — animal modelView study →}.

Gap: one unreplicated mouse study using a whole extract.

5. Antitumor

Polysaccharides from Tuber cultures grown in fermenters, including T. melanosporum, slowed the growth of several human cancer cell lines (HepG2, A549, HCT-116, SK-BR-3 and HL-60). They were more active than polysaccharides from the fruiting bodies of three other species, T. indicum, T. himalayense and T. sinense ^{8Reference 8Zhao W et al. · 2014In vitroIsolation and characterization of polysaccharides with the antitumor activity from Tuber fruiting bodies and fermentation system — in vitroView study →}.

In the ten-species screen, the extracts that slowed cancer-cell growth came from Terfezia and T. gennadii, not from T. melanosporum ^{6Reference 6Tejedor-Calvo E et al. · 2021In vitroChemical composition and evaluation of antioxidant, antimicrobial and antiproliferative activities of Tuber and Terfezia truffles — in vitroView study →}.

Gap: the T. melanosporum fruiting body that people eat has not been tested in these studies, and all the work is in cell lines.

6. Antimicrobial

A 1947 report described antibiotic properties in Tuber melanosporum ^{10Reference 10JACQUET J · 1947In vitroOn the antibiotic properties of Tuber melanosporum Vitt — in vitro. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/18900726/View study →}.

In the ten-species screen, five extracts, including one from T. melanosporum, slightly inhibited bacterial growth ^{6Reference 6Tejedor-Calvo E et al. · 2021In vitroChemical composition and evaluation of antioxidant, antimicrobial and antiproliferative activities of Tuber and Terfezia truffles — in vitroView study →}.

Gap: weak inhibition in one screen, with no testing against a clinically relevant set of pathogens and nothing in animals.

Mechanisms

Most of the activity studied in black truffle belongs to its polysaccharides, β-glucans and phenolics. These have been studied for their effects on antioxidant enzymes through Nrf2, and on inflammatory signalling through NF-κB.

The volatile sulfur compounds that give the truffle its aroma have not been studied for any health effect.

Clinical Trials

No clinical trials of Tuber melanosporum have been registered.

Last checked: September 2026.

Dosage

Black truffle is eaten as food and has no medicinal dose. The figures below are the extract doses used in animal research.

Traditional Dosage

Safety & Pregnancy

Black truffle is an ordinary food, eaten in small amounts.

Full Safety Detail

As food. Black truffle is eaten shaved, a few grams at a time. A 2025 study of extracts made from black truffle trimmings found low heavy-metal content and no toxicity to human Caco-2 intestinal cells ^{12Reference 12Sebastià A et al. · 2025In vitroChemical characterization and safety assessment of black truffle (Tuber melanosporum) leftovers extracts obtained through non-conventional extraction techniques — in vitroView study →}.

Extracts. No human safety study has been done on concentrated truffle extracts, and no drug interactions have been reported.

Allergy. As with any food, an individual allergy is possible.

Truffle oil. Most products sold as truffle oil are flavoured synthetically. One oil sold as black truffle oil was built mainly on methanethiol and 2,4-dithiapentane, the markers of the white truffle ^{14Reference 14Epping et al. · 2022Marker Substances in the Aroma of Truffles — analyticalView study →}.

References

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