The red onion

Features

Seal of quality

Typical products of Calabria

In order to enhance the variety of the famed organoleptic characteristics that make it pleasing to the palate of consumers and abroad for its sweetness, subtle spiciness and for its therapeutic and healing, and on-going project that will see this vegetable bear the mark Quality PGI (Protected Geographical Indication), as required by EC Reg 081/92.Protection under the brand I.G.P. allow consumers to easily identify and distinguish the bulbs of red Tropea from those areas particularly suited to soil characteristics and climate, from the myriad of other productions of the same species, or extra-European derivation, the quality far below that saturate very often the receptivity of our markets.

The therapeutic use of the onion is very old and frequently in herbal medicine. Was used for therapeutic purposes by the Egyptians and the Indians, during the Middle Ages and even during the Renaissance. Was for example used to help relieve headaches, against the bites of snakes and spiders, and as anesthetic stomach after booze or poisoning. Like every other vegetable, the onion is characterized by the richness in water, which constitutes more than 90% by weight of the bulb cool, and the corresponding limited content of sugars, fats and proteins, hence the importance of this food from the secondary energetically. Best known is the contribution of all the vegetables (and therefore of the onion) intake of vitamins and minerals necessary to achieve the daily requirement of these nutrients.