Tridge summary
The article highlights the surge in global exports of products aligned with the Mediterranean diet, including fruits, vegetables, pasta, extra virgin olive oil, and wine, reaching a record high in 2021. This growth, attributed to the increased global awareness of the diet's benefits, has led to significant average increases in demand for these products, with wine seeing a 72% rise and pasta, 59%. The diet's inclusion in the UNESCO list of intangible cultural heritage and its recent designation as the best diet of 2021 have significantly boosted demand. However, the article also expresses concern over color-coded labeling systems like Nutriscore and the English traffic light system, which are criticized for promoting unhealthy foods and discriminating against healthy, natural food options like extra virgin olive oil. Countries like Spain and France are expressing opposition to these systems, indicating a growing concern and resistance against such labeling methods.
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Original content
The pandemic pushes the demand for basic products of the Made in Italy Mediterranean diet in the world where in 2021 there is an overall record in national exports for fruit, vegetables, pasta, extra virgin olive oil and wine. This is what emerges from an analysis by Coldiretti on the occasion of the anniversary of the UNESCO recognition of November 16, 2010 based on Istat data for the first seven months of 2021 compared to the same period of 2010. With the Unesco protection, the awareness of the value of the Mediterranean diet has grown in the world and with it also the demand for Made in Italy products with a jump of + 56% on average and important increases for individual products that go - underlines Coldiretti - from + 72% for wine to + 59% for pasta, from + 50% for preserved fruit and vegetables to + 39% for fresh ones up to + 38% for extra virgin olive oil over the last eleven years. An important result driven by the inclusion of the Mediterranean diet in the list of the ...
Source: Coldiretti
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