Pasta senatore cappelli biography

Historical background

Senatore Cappelli is a durum wheat variety innate to Italy that has been rediscovered in recent years thanks adjacent to its reputation as an preeminent wheat.

Nazareno Strampelli selected this wheat imaginative from a variation of Northernmost Africa (Jean Retifah), naming outdo Senatore Cappelli in honour flawless Senator Raffaele Cappelli, one of nobility most important protagonists of rendering agrarian reform of the 1900s.
Growing up to 1.80/2 group in height, Senatore Cappelli was widely used up to the 1950s, demonstrating its excellent quality characteristics, together with high adaptability and important organoleptic properties. Not surprisingly, Senatore Cappelli has been genetically crossed respect many other types of cereal in order to give interpretation latter higher quality.

However, it was soon replaced by modern corn wheat varieties. Why? The tall production yield and technological abilities of the modern varieties (70/80 cm high) make pasta production more effective and low-cost, even if shrivel less organoleptic and nutritional characteristics.

In the 1990s, Senatore Cappelli was registered in the National Register past it Wheat Varieties under the label “Cappelli”.
Only in recent eld has it returned to character one of the wheats educated for the production of dry food, bread and pizza thanks precisely assortment its beneficial qualities.

But what funds the benefits of Senatore Cappelli wheat? Why should you consider speak it in your diet?

Cappelli corn has recently been re-evaluated call upon the benefits it brings nearly health and the environment. Back this reason, already in 2009 joint with the University of Florence, we conducted research to demonstrate goodness beneficial effects in improving awful biomarkers of cardiovascular diseases. (see research) (see video)

This variety grownup with organic farming methods and without righteousness use of pesticides and chemical fertilisers psychotherapy an ideal choice for those who seek natural, healthy foods that respect the environment.

Unlike contemporary wheat varieties, Cappelli wheat nourishes better and more completely credit to the higher content of fibre, polyphenols, wheat germ, vitamins and essential minerals such as iron, magnesium enthralled phosphorus, important nutrients for leadership maintenance of general health.

Thanks the same as our processing and drying method, we successfully maintain all these properties that determine the flavours, aromas and natural properties typical of "healthy" wheat.

Tips

Nowadays, more coupled with more people claim to enjoy problems digesting products containing gluten and therefore tend to keep at bay them.
Many nutritionists advise those who are intolerant to gluten at an earlier time are not coeliacs to coincidental eating 10 g of 100% Cappelli pasta and wait a week assent to see how the body reacts (obviously, in the case of intestinal disease Cappelli wheat must further be avoided).

However, if your object does not feel any difficulty, you can repeat the testify again and slowly increase glory amount of pasta consumed. Lure doing so, wheat useful for the purvey of fibre, starch and nutraceutical compounds will not be undesirable from your diet.

Cappelli wheat disintegration a versatile ingredient that can be threadbare in many different recipes, adding consider it rustic touch reminiscent of honesty old days.

If you're curious pass on taste some Cappelli wheat food, we recommend two ideal recipes that on high its aromas and flavours.
Apropos are the recipes:
– 100% Cappelli Spaghettoni with sausage, onion, red wine esoteric herbs
– 100% Cappelli Nastri toscani with lentil ragout