7 Stinkiest Foods In The World

Producer: Mehak Pal Editor: Aparna Singh August 28, 2024

Can delicious-tasting food smell stinky at the same time? Here's a look at some of the stinkiest foods in the world.

1

Suranache Ful (Goa)

It is the flower of elephant foot yam or suram. It is cooked as a delicacy in Goa but it smells like rotting flesh.

2

Blue Cheese (Europe and USA)

It is the stinkiest cheese that looks unappetising but it is considered a delicacy.

3

Durian (Southeast Asia)

The smell of this fruit has been described as a combination of sulfur, sewage, fruit, honey, and roasted and rotting onions.

4

Surstormming (Sweden)

It is a canned, salted, and fermented herring that has a mixed smell of rotten cheese that meets perspiration and sweat.

5

Hongeo-Hoe (South Korea)

It is a fermented skate dish from South Korea with an ammonia-like odour.

6

Natto (Japan)

It is a super healthy and popular breakfast made with fermented soybeans and smells of old socks.

7

Century Egg (China)

They are fermented eggs that look and smell rotten.