The price of authentic bird's nest ranges from 20 yuan a gram to more than 100 yuan a gram, and a catty of bird's nest costs from 10,000 yuan to more than 50,000 yuan. Among them, the bird's nest purchased from the big brand Tongrentang, for example, costs around 80 yuan per gram, and a catty costs about 40,000 yuan.

Why is bird's nest so expensive

The reasons why bird's nest is sold at an expensive price are mainly caused by the following points:

1. Imported mainly

Bird's nest is less self-produced in our country, mostly produced in the Philippines, Malaysia, Indonesia and other island countries, and wherever imported commodities are imported, it is because of transportation as well as taxes that will increase its price.

2, not suitable for transportation

First of all, bird's nests are produced in the island countries, and the transportation is mainly by sea, and secondly, dried bird's nests belong to the damaged items, and the cost is too high in the transportation back and forth, so the selling price is naturally high.

3, Rare is expensive

Bird's nest is the nest of swiftlet, the production itself is relatively small, a swiftlet to do a bird's nest needs to spend 30-40 days, and about 3 a year, this low production of high demand for food leads to high prices of bird's nest.

4, Bird's Nest Picking Difficulty

Consumers can purchase bird's nests that are carefully selected, with no impurities and no fine hairs, and these selection processes are time-consuming and finely done by manual labor. It is said that a skilled worker can only pick 7-8 bird's nests in a day, so on a single bird's nest, the labor cost is also occupied by quite a lot of people.