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Despite growing the 2nd most expensive spice in the world Vanilla farmers face a tough existence. From corporate greed to vanilla thieves, these are the challenges they face.
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ORO VERDE è un'azienda artigianale che affonda le sue radici negli anni '50 e che è stata poi ricostituita nel 2013 dai fratelli Andaloro, ispirati dal loro spirito imprenditoriale e dalla passione ereditata dai nonni per la natura; l’azienda si pone al centro di una filosofia che coniuga tradizione e innovazione, in linea con i principi della dieta mediterranea.
PRODUZIONE ARTIGIANALE E TECNOLOGIA. Specializzata nella produzione e trasformazione di pistacchi, mandorle, pomodori ed erbe aromatiche, ORO VERDE adotta un approccio unico alla produzione, proponendosi di emergere come protagonista nel settore. Ponendo l'accento sulla qualità e dedicandosi sia nella preservazione delle tradizioni che nel progresso tecnologico, l'azienda mantiene tecniche tradizionali tramandate di generazione in generazione per garantire la qualità delle materie prime, combinando al contempo l'utilizzo di macchinari all'avanguardia. Questa combinazione di maestria artigianale e tecnologia moderna consente ad ORO VERDE di offrire prodotti di alta qualità che conservano sapori autentici e caratteristiche tradizionali.
INNOVAZIONE E ADATTAMENTO AL MERCATO. ORO VERDE abbraccia l'innovazione e ricerca costantemente percorsi fuori dall'ordinario per lo sviluppo dei propri prodotti, comprendendo l'importanza di adattarsi alle mutevoli preferenze dei consumatori e alle abitudini alimentari, in sintonia con le esigenze nutrizionali dei nostri clienti attenti alla salute, in particolare rispettando i principi della dieta mediterranea.
LA DIETA MEDITERRANEA COME PRIORITÀ. Riconosciamo che i consumatori cercano sapori deliziosi, ma conferiscono anche la priorità alla salute e al benessere. I nostri prodotti a base di pistacchio e mandorle, per esempio, sono ricchi di nutrienti essenziali, tra cui vitamine, minerali, fibre e acidi grassi essenziali, che sono componenti fondamentali della dieta mediterranea. Miriamo a offrire ai nostri clienti non solo un'esperienza gustativa eccellente, ma anche un'opzione salutare e nutriente che sostenga il loro benessere.
ORO VERDE si distingue come un'azienda artigianale che dedica attenzione alla qualità, adotta un approccio scrupoloso nella produzione e si impegna a fondere tradizione e innovazione, offrendo una gamma di prodotti selezionata che non solo deliziano il palato, ma che supportano anche un'alimentazione sana e nutriente, in linea con i principi salutari della dieta mediterranea. Mentre continuiamo a crescere ed evolverci, il nostro obiettivo è fornire prodotti selezionati di eccellenza che incarnino al meglio l'armonioso connubio tra tradizione e progresso tecnologico, nel rispetto dei principi salutari della dieta mediterranea.
The world’s first food made from plastic waste - according to its developer - is vanilla ice cream.
Despite being locked in a freezer in London, she hopes it kickstarts a heated debate about the future of food and the plastic pollution crisis.
The ice cream is actually an art installation called ‘Guilty Flavours’ by artist and designer Eleanora Ortolani, 27, intended to challenge the way we think about plastic waste and what we are - and are not - prepared to eat.
"Guilty Flavours is what I believe is the first sample of ice cream made from plastic waste,” Ortolani told Reuters at Central Saint Martins, part of the University of the Arts London.
“It's coming from the same plastic as we can find in bottles, plastic bottles,” she said.
The process, developed by scientists in Edinburgh, harnesses the metabolic power of bacteria and enzymes to behave as eco-friendly factories to digest polyethylene terephthalate (PET) and turn it into vanillin, the molecule that gives vanilla its flavour.
“There are certain enzymes which do certain chemical reaction,” Dr Joanna Sadler, a biotechnologist at the University of Edinburgh, told Reuters.
“So if you plug those together, you can get through to lots of different chemical products," she said.
Plastic is made of a string of molecules bonded together into what are known as polymers.
Sadler broke those bonds with a hungry microbe, leaving her with molecules that were no longer plastic.
That former PET-soup was then easily processed by another bacteria into vanillin.
Sadler's research, published in the Journal Biochemist in December 2021, focuses on degrading and upcycling plastic and using it as feedstock for microbial growth.
She produced the specially engineered bugs for Ortolani's project but was at pains to point out that the student's ice cream is very much a research project.
It's not currently for human consumption.
"I've even had members of the public email me saying it's irresponsible to encourage people to eat plastic," Sadler said.
"It is really important that we take the safety side of it really, really seriously and we make it very clear that this has to go through exactly the same regulatory processes and food standard processes as any other food ingredient.
And only once it has been through all of those would it go anywhere near any kind of consumer product."
Ortolani, who is from Verona, Italy, said Guilty Flavours was inspired by her frustration with the failure of the recycling system to stop plastic polluting the environment.
It is locked away to highlight what she says is a looming global food crisis.
“We have the tools today to rethink the food system we're living in,” she said.
“This is ready now and today but nobody can really touch it or interact with it because it's not tested for safety yet."
Vanilla, sometimes called 'green gold', is the second most expensive spice in the world after saffron.
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UK designer recycles plastic into vanilla ice cream
27 September 2023
Introducing the world's first food made from plastic waste... vanilla ice cream!
Named Guilty Flavours, the ice cream has been designed to provoke viewers into thinking about plastic waste.
The ice cream was developed by scientists in Edinburgh, who used bacteria and enzymes to digest PET plastic and turn it into vanillin -- the molecule that gives vanilla its flavour.
The ice cream is still in its research phase and currently not for human consumption.