Author: Neeru Khan

A food that can be consumed in a thousand ways: naturally, in juices, compotes, jams, fruit salads, salads, creams, purees, skewers, tortillas, sauces, pistos … In reality, its consumption basically depends on our imagination, always following the recommendation eating five pieces a day. And, given the versatility of these foods in their use in the kitchen, the […] A food that can be consumed in a thousand ways: naturally, in juices, compotes, jams, fruit salads, salads, creams, purees, skewers, tortillas, sauces, pistos … In reality, its consumption basically depends on our imagination, always following the recommendation eating five pieces a…

The industrial bakery and pastry market registered its first decline in ten years in 2020, as a result of the crisis caused by COVID-19. The increase in sales in the food distribution channel was insufficient to offset the significant drop in demand for frozen dough in the hotel and catering industry. It is one of the main conclusions drawn from the study Industrial Bakery and Pastry Sectors recently published by the INFORMA DBK Sector Observatory, which collects that the market value of industrial bakery and pastry products registered a decrease in 2020, penalized by the measures decreed to face the…

After the usual process of audits, the Spanish Association of Wine Cities (ACEVIN) has approved the incorporation of Gran Canaria to the Wine Routes of Spain, a new adhesion to this product club, which already has thirty-three wine tourism destinations throughout the entire country. Thus, the main wine-growing areas of Spain have formally constituted Wine Routes, created with their own quality model: Alicante, Arlanza, Arribes, Bullas, Calatayud, Campo de Cariñena, Cigales, El Bierzo, Garnacha-Campo de Borja , Gran Canaria, Jumilla, La Mancha, La Manchuela, Lleida-Costers del Segre, Madrid, Marco de Jerez, Montilla-Moriles, Navarra, Penedès, Rías Baixas, Ribera de Duero, Ribera…

Asturian gastronomy is very rich and balances tradition and innovation in all kinds of dishes and creations. One of the greatest riches of gastronomic Asturias is the pantry of the land and the sea, in addition to the tasty and healthy products that are made at home, based on autochthonous breeds.Asturias is an orchard, with faba as queen, a local product that is the main base of the most emblematic spoon dish of Asturias: fabada. The richness of the Asturian garden means that the spoon dishes, ideal for autumn-winter, are of exceptional quality and very varied: the different versions of…

The Regulatory Council of the DO Vinos de Madrid has unanimously approved a new labeling of bottles, in the same line that Denominations such as Bierzo or Cava are already following, which will be able to inform and detail the origin of the grape when it is covered by the designation of geographic units smaller than their own delimitation. With this new labeling design, still pending approval by the Community of Madrid, zoning categories are created that refer to the origin of the grapes. In this way, in addition to the traditional aging categories —Crianza, Reserva and Gran Reserva—, the…

Study on the value chain of packaged milk The Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food has published the study of the value chain of long-term packaged liquid milk corresponding to the campaigns from 2018 to 2020, whose objective is to contribute to the analysis of the price formation of such a basic product and important in the shopping cart like milk. The study – which is part of the Ministry’s commitment to update the value chains of the different agri-food products – analyzes the income, costs, benefits or losses that are generated in the different links of the chain and…

Spain is a country with coasts, a territory surrounded by two seas and an ocean that allow you to enjoy the multiple fishing resources that they offer every day. And, in addition, Spain is the leader in the European Union in terms of aquaculture production, with more than sixty commercial species. Something increasingly important, since thanks to aquaculture, it is possible to supply to a great extent in a responsible and sustainable way the growing market demand for fishery products. Because the fish that have been raised through aquaculture are very fresh specimens – in less than 24 hours, since…

At its meeting on June 28 and 29, the EU Agriculture and Fisheries Council, made up of the agriculture ministers of the different member states, agreed on the need to establish a specific protection objective for honey bees against Pesticides. For this, the Member States have taken into account the most recent guidelines provided by the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA), which present the general lines of a new approach to assess the consequences of pesticides on bee populations. melliferous. Under this approach, a maximum reduction of 10% in the size of hives would be established across the EU. Ministers…

Honey is a one hundred percent natural food, a great substitute for sugar. A food as old as the human being himself, which already appears in the cave paintings of more than fifteen thousand years ago in which people were represented collecting it, and which throughout history has continued to be present in different civilizations such as the Sumerians, Egyptians, Phoenicians, Greeks, Romans, or the Arabs. Its elaboration begins when the bees absorb the nectar from the flowers and return to the hive to deliver it to the worker bees, who dehydrate it for days until it becomes honey. During…