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Healthier the hens, healthier the eggs!

24 Apr, 2024 | Biological, Blog_EN, Nutrition, Sustainability

Part two: the real hens’ welfare Last time we talked about two kinds of hens’ intensive rearing:• Battery hens intensive rearing• free-range hens intensive rearing This time we’ll talk about two other rearing methods:• outdoor-raised hens• organic outdoor-raised hens...

Healthier the hens, healthier the eggs

24 Apr, 2024 | Biological, Blog_EN, Nutrition, Sustainability

Battery hens, free-range hens, outdoor-raised hens, and organic outdoor-raised hens. What kind of chicken do you want? Or rather, what kind of chicken do you want to lay the eggs you consume? Today, declaring the use of eggs coming from free-range hens is a real...

Mayonnaise in 3 steps

24 Apr, 2024 | Biological, Blog_EN

Samuele, our QC, is smiling: the mayonnaise will be delicious! Dear friends, we took a break and we are now ready to make an amazing mayonnaise with and for you!Let’s recall the steps we did until now:• We squeezed the sunflower seeds and obtained the oil.• We got our...

False! Handicrafted products cost more than industrial ones

24 Apr, 2024 | Blog_EN, Lifestyle, Nutrition

It often happens to find on the shelves of stores and supermarkets almost similar food products.One offered by a large company, perhaps a multinational company, and another one by a small artisan company. As a rule, the artisan product costs more than the industrial...

7 reasons to distrust “natural” food

24 Apr, 2024 | Blog_EN, Nutrition

We are literally submerged by the term “natural” or, even worse, “100% natural” that we find on the labels of a considerable amount of food products. The term is raging even on the TV and magazines. Even pet food is considered “natural”. Here they are the 7 reasons to...

Send me to the judge!

24 Apr, 2024 | Biological, Blog_EN, Sustainability

The Calvé mayonnaise, made by Unilever, doesn’t have it.Not even Hellmann’s mayonnaise, another Unilever trademark, neither Kraft sauces, nor is the mayonnaise from the multinational Heinz.In Italy, mayonnaise and Formec sauces don’t have it, neither does Biffi.And...

Modified starch: we say NO!

24 Apr, 2024 | Blog_EN, Lifestyle, Nutrition

Modified starch is a topic particularly important to us. We are not necessarily talking about a GMO, in case it is not actually made from a GMO cereal. It is a chemical-physical modification, and is generally made from corn, rice and tapioca.Modified starch is...

Proteins & Laughs

24 Apr, 2024 | Biological, Blog_EN, Lifestyle, Nutrition

The Gladiator – 2000 directed By Ridley Scott and starring Russell Crowe Meat? Proteins? The typical diet of gladiators consisted in legumes, barley and a particular “supplement” to recover strength. Gladiators are real myth of ancient Roma, symbol of strength and...

Bio as real safeguard for environment and livestock health

24 Apr, 2024 | Biological, Blog_EN, Lifestyle, Sustainability

There has been said a lot recently about organic farming. In general terms: it is good, it is good for health, it does not contain pesticides and chemical fertilizers, and for these reasons organic product consumption is growing in large-scale distribution too. That...

Biodiversity and the mass extinction of plants and seeds

24 Apr, 2024 | Biological, Blog_EN, Sustainability

Biodiversity is fundamental for our life on Earth: it includes the whole variety of animals, plants, and microorganism. It is the key for the productivity of every ecosystems, both the natural ones and the agricultural ones. What will happen on our planet if we lose...