Lenticchie di Villalba - Az. Agricola Messina

The Messina farm falls into the ancient ""Micciché"" fiefdom.
is located in a hilly landscape at 600-800 meters above sea level, characterized by the presence of large seminative and olive surfaces renowned for the quality of the product. The company, in particular, starts its production address between legumes, olives and Sicacagno tomato. The olive grove is mainly composed of Plants of Nocellara del Belice to a lesser extent, of Biancolilla. These are two of the most valuable varieties of olive tree in Sicily. They provide qualitatively more than satisfactory results

among the cultivated legumes are of particular relevance the lentils of Villalba, an ecotype that stands out for its peculiar organoleptic and nutritional characteristics, due to the concomitance of several factors. The culture, which normally prefers loose soils, from which the most abundant productions are drawn, is instead practiced in tendentially clayey-calcareous soils, typical of the place. The soils used are at an altitude between seventeenth and eight hundred meters above sea level, Ciಠensures a good percentage of humidity and sufficiently low temperature even in the hottest months. In addition, the conformation of the soil of these areas is excellent being rich in clay and sand with characteristics of good agronomic fertility and water regulation in periods of drought. Ciಠcharacterizes the product by determining in it an intense and particular taste, a protein and iron content higher than the average and avoiding the flaking during cooking. It is a large, macrosperm, green seed lentil (green tag with yellow cotyledons) markedly flat. The diameter of the seed (about 8 mm) makes it the most important ecotype in the field of the supergiant class, since no other eco -like or other cultivated variety reaches these dimensions.

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