Rosa, rose, so appetizing... In Argentina, about ten edible flowers have already been incorporated into the food code, inc

Cristian López is a professor of the Department of Horticulture and Floriculture at the Faculty of Agrarian Sciences of the University of Lomas de Zamora. But he doesn't just teach how to produce flowers, but also how to eat them. For years, he has been convinced that there is a new productive sector, which Argentina should take more advantage of, that of edible flowers. "Although I specialized in everything related to horticulture and floriculture, I also have a small farm in San Antonio de Areco. There we experiment, test, and use the flowers, of course in our own dishes," commented the university professor, who celebrated a fundamental step that Argentina has just taken to generate a legal framework for those, like him, who believe that flowers are not only ornamental but also have food properties that should be explored. Indeed, a few days ago, officials from the Ministry of Agriculture and its counterpart from the Ministry of Health, who are in charge of updating the ...