APULIA AND THE MEDITERRANEAN DIET

From more than 10.000 years, the world has learned to know the Mediterranean diet, its foods and its benefits, becoming nowadays the most popular and mostly recognized from researchers as best model to feed for healthy and traditional values.

Becoming symbol of the Mediterranean diet and suitable as "preliminary concept of the traditional Mediterranean diet", the food pyramid contains in itself the useful nourishing elements to the model, defining some of the rules; abundant consumption of fruit and vegetable, dry fruit, wheat, bread, pasta, couscous, polenta, olives and olive oil as principal fat, limited amounts of lean red meat and cheese products and the yogurt, moderate quantities of fish and poultry, all accompanied by the wine.

Kissed by the sun and bathed by the waters of the Mediterranean Sea, Apulia offers a variety of yields of the earth that fully answer to the present foods in the pyramid.

Preserving the authenticity that earth offers and avoiding therefore sophistications for the maintenance of the foods, this country boasts a singular tradition for gourmet Food and wine. The most important rule is the use of the olive oil, monounsaturatedvegetable fat, that doesn't raise the level of cholesterol in the blood contrarily of the animal fats and therefore healthier. Besides we can assert the oil produced in the Apulian country owns the added value of the intense and savory taste and the aromas that distinguish it.

In same thing we can tell about the wine, of which Apulia boasts a great variety, delicious to drink with the traditional gastronomic recipes.

Not last the vegetables, that thanks to the favorable climatic and geographical conditions of the Apulian country, enjoy of an indistinguishable taste.

Therefore, we can conclude that, being given by the earth and subsequently used according to a natural use in the Apulian gourmet food tradition, these products  guarantee an observance of the Mediterranean diet, feeding model defined as "Gold Stardard", or rather the way to eat in healthy way and with taste.

Autore / Fonte: STAFF