Over 1,000 new food products at Cibus in Parma

From Apulia comes spaghetti - made from 100% local grains - cooked in just two minutes thanks to ad hoc grooves. While among the new entries in the beverage sector is the craft beer brandy from the Italian agricultural chain.

Somewhere between green and wellness is tomato flour, which, 'recovered from the tomato puree production process, promotes a circular economy'.
A reinterpretation of a traditional Italian recipe such as farinata then becomes a snack with the crispy chickpea puffs. But there are also 'potato crispy-veg' and 'gnocchi-pops to use as an alternative to crisps' or, again 'roasted chocolate-covered legumes'.

The sauces and condiments range from onion soy mayonnaise to truffle or raspberry rosé balsamic dressing to saffron sauce.

From Cibus, the first courses include pink rice - 'the result of processing a particular variety of black wholemeal rice that, when husked, gives its grains a distinctive pink colour' - and among the cheeses, 'the blue cheese with fruits of the forest in Sicilian pomegranate puree and the pecorino aged under walnut leaves'.

Made-in-Italy (often PDO) delicacies are then combined, as in the case of Genovese basil with lardo di colonnata. The Squacquerone di Romagna is served with wild herbs and the gourmet taralli with Parmigiano Reggiano and the burrata with 'nduja. Finally, one (in)discussed protagonist of the last year could not be missing:the blue crabmeat..

Cibus is also a journey through flavours and ingredients from around the world, which often encounter some certified Italian food products. Like the first chutney made with IGP balsamic vinegar from Modena or Himalayan pink salt with black summer truffle and Taggiasco oil with Madagascar bourbon vanilla.

From sweet to savoury there is then the so-called comfort first, 'where food becomes a pleasure and products become curious, such as musical lollipops, a mix of technology and candy'. Or the Tartufami, a truffle salami with a parmesan covering. The world of comfort first also presents colourful edible red rose petals, cold-dried. "Among the novelties," they continue from the Fair, "are the drops in finger format, the plum cake enriched with yoghurt and the cricket powder and red prawn butter from Mazara del Vallo.