Always attentive to the territory

Among the excellences proposed by the territory of the municipality of Cicala, the chestnut is undoubtedly the product of greatest prestige and diffusion. The country has always had a strong chestnut vocation implemented with passion amply repaid by the quality of the fruits obtained. Attentive to the agricultural productions of the territory, Sapori Antichi company has therefore decided to devote to the Calabrian chestnuts in Cicala a line of specific products. We produce and sell chestnut cream, chestnut flour, chestnuts cooked in syrup, dried chestnuts and chestnuts in the oven.

Chestnuts have accompanied the life of human communities since time immemorial. Used as a source of food particularly by mountain communities and more generally during the cyclical phases of famine, the chestnut is also known as the bread of the poor. An appellation used not by chance, since the flour derived from the milling of dried fruit represented the main substitute for wheat flour. Among the producing regions, Calabria is perhaps the one that hosts the most prized varieties and particularly appreciated for the peculiar organoleptic characteristics of which they are rich.

Chestnuts are a fruit of many qualities to be discovered. For example, although they are assimilated at a nutritional level to cereals such as barley and wheat, chestnuts do not contain gluten. Particularly calories are then an excellent energy reserve for adults and children, to be used perhaps to dispose of the consequences of an influence. The minerals of which they are rich make them particularly suitable as tonic, to strengthen the muscles, as an antiseptic and disinfectant, as a support for digestion and to regenerate the nervous system. Finally, the vitamin C contained in them, stimulates the formation of collagen, essential for slowing down skin aging.