Food: nutritionist: the italians are nto very mediterranean at table

The Italians at table? They are less and less Mediterranean. Carlo Cannella confirmed this, the President of the National Institute of Research for food and nutrition ( INRAN). He is one of the experts working for the dossier Italy is going to present to UNESCO to have the recognition for the Mediterranean diet as cultural, immaterial world heritage. “When we speak about the Mediterranean diet – Cannella explains- we refer to a lifestyle, to a cultural heritage made of traditions and bound to the local reality which we have to protect for our future generations”. A protection that won’t be limited to the usual stamps on the multinational products, but it will aim at the protection of a selection system of food and production based on season and biodiversity. “The Italians are abandoning the Mediterranean style- he goes on-that is confined only to the fairies in the villages, and they are getting nearer the continent uses. For this reason it is important to shelter the cultural heritage bound to food: we are compared to other European countries, but this dossier represents an important step, I am very satisfied with it”. It is a dossier, the expert explained, that answers the demands of UNESCO as for the territory, with the link of the traditions and the local realities and the development of productive realities.