Preservation
Cold instead of preservatives.
Cold does the work that additives do elsewhere.
A preservative-free product that lasts eighteen months sounds like a contradiction. It isn’t: it is simply a question of speed.
As soon as they are made, the panelle undergo a rapid freezing process designed to preserve their characteristics as well as possible. It is the speed of chilling that makes the difference — a difference you can see under a microscope.
The principle
The recipe comes before the technology.
4ingredients: nothing that needs stabilising
No machine can improve a bad batter. The reason our panelle need no additives is not the cold: it is that there is almost nothing inside to stabilise.
Chickpea flour, water, salt, a herb. Four things that keep well on their own, if you treat them with respect. Technology comes afterwards, and its job is to spare us from adding anything else.
How it works
Two ways to freeze. Only one good result.
When food cools slowly, the water inside it forms large ice crystals that rupture the fibres. On thawing, the product falls apart, loses water and loses flavour — and to compensate, the industry adds stabilisers.
Rapid freezing instead creates microcrystals, which leave the structure intact. No damage to repair, no additive to add.
It is a traditional recipe, carefully preserved and enhanced by technology.
The supply chain
Italian raw materials, suppliers with a name.
A four-line label only works if every one of those lines is good.
From the chickpea flour to the parsley: a short supply chain and selected suppliers. When there are four ingredients, there is nowhere to hide — the quality of each one is felt in the finished product.
Origin of the chickpeas, origin of the potatoes for the crocchè and any certifications: to be completed with final data.
Few ingredients, all of them readable.
If you can’t recognise it on the label, we don’t put it in the product.
Nothing to compensate for.
We take nothing out of the recipe, so nothing is needed to replace it.
Short supply chain.
Italian raw materials and selected suppliers, not the day’s market.
Technology removes, it does not add.
Cold exists precisely so that we never need additives.
Questions about the product or supply?
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