Meiterranean Food Style

The Greeks and Romans laid the foundations of what we now know as the Mediterranean diet with the "Mediterranean trilogy": bread, oil and wine, always present in our culture.

For the proper functioning of our body need balance in our diet. We should consume carbohydrates, proteins and lipids or fats. The latter play an important role in our diet because they are essential nutrients that provide us with energy, essential for our daily activities.

We understand that our nutrition experts say all the food groups, fats, or lipids, we will provide approximately 35% of total energy, why are preferably vegetable fats such as extra virgin olive oil, at animal. One exception is the blue fish (mackerel, tuna, sardines ...) because it is polyunsaturated and helps prevent cardiovascular problems.

The proposed Mediterranean diet olive oil as the main source of fat.

Olive oil has many properties, including many that have been agreed recently by doctors and scientists are:

:: Being a monounsaturated fatty acid, reduces LDL levels and increase levels of HDL (good cholesterol), unlike other oils, it protects against the risk of heart disease, especially myocardial infarction.

:: It is rich in vitamins A, D, F and K. and its high content of vitamin E helps prevent arteriosclerosis, cancer, and is excellent for keeping skin young and healthy.

:: I like the fat content of breast milk, so on paediatrics, the fat is appropriate for infant feeding.

:: Promotes the growth of bones and calcium absorption.

:: It is a natural remedy for ulcers, prevents diabetes and increases the body's defenses.

In addition to benefiting from these oil economy do, because its performance is higher than that of other vegetable fats, both cold and hot. We can see the heat because it increases its volume, which translates into less use for cooking. Due to the fruity flavor, smoothness and viscosity of olive oil is always less precise for cooking in cold weather.

:: A good breakfast Mediterranean: natural orange juice, coffee with milk and a slice of bread soaked in Extra Virgin Olive Oil Good Sense.

-Wine makes us twice civilized one when it produced and two when it is taken-

The food & Wine

The food that is consumed with wine has an effect on the way in which the wine knows, can the wine also have an effect on the taste of the food. The purpose of the harmonization of food and wine is to take advantage of those effects, so that both food as wine give more pleasure than that would be if they were consumed separately. Knowing these effects will help to avoid negative interactions or unpleasant.  In addition to understanding the basic taste interactions between wine and food, It is important to remember that people have different sensitivities to different the flavor and aroma components. This means, for example, that the same level of bitterness can affect a much stronger way than to another person (this does not) It is the same as the personal preferences; Some people like the  While strong reactions that others seem to them unpleasant). The harmonies, Therefore, should take into account the preferences of persons, as well as also the basic interactions between wine and food.