Blood orange marmalade

Cascina Bonfiglio Blood Orange Marmalade - Typical Sicilian product

Start your day with a slice of bread and orange marmalade! Red Oranges, rich in antioxidant and anti-inflammatory properties and excellent allies of the immune system, give us a Jam that represents the essence of Sicily. Its flavor and texture reveal the genuineness of the Sicilian IGP blood oranges used in the preparation. To make it even more fragrant and tasty is the addition of the peel, left in cold water for a couple of days.

Fruit: best varieties of PGI blood orange from Sicily such as Moro, tarocco and Sanguinello, or the precious and ancient Belladonna

Harvest: manual, within the first ten days of March

Method of preparation: as soon as it is picked, the fruit is peeled by hand and cooked at very low temperatures and vacuum-packed to preserve all its properties. The peel, left in cold water for a couple of days, is also added to the preparation to give it more flavor

Color: deep red

Bouquet: citrus with a perfect balance between sweet and pungent

Taste: enveloping with its natural sugary notes in contrast with the sporadic peaks of bitterness

Consistency: pulpy, melts in the mouth and reveals all the juiciness of oranges

Average nutritional values ​​per 100 g

- Energy: 2178 kJ / 522 kcal

- Protein: 6.5 g

- Carbohydrates: 49.3 g of which sugars 49.3 g

- Total Fats: 33.2 g of which saturated 20.3 g

- Fiber: n.d.

- Sodium chloride: <0.05 g

Use: excellent to spread on a slice of bread for breakfast, to fill a tart or to accompany fresh cheeses

Storage: after opening, store in the refrigerator

Produced and Packaged by C.C.I.A.A. 56698 Gagliano (EN) ITALY