KernAkuell December 2020, News
The 2020 mushroom harvest
An unusual and good mushroom year
After a below-average harvest the previous year, this year’s European mushroom harvest benefited from the rainy summer months and turned out very well in terms of quantity, although middling in quality.
As a result of ample supplies and wide availability, purchase prices were somewhat lower than last year. Estyria has already warehoused around 100 tonnes of frozen mushrooms and 40 tonnes of dried mushrooms. This year supply is therefore well able to meet demand.
Natural and reliable
To ensure that end products of the very highest product safety are ultimately obtained from what are at the outset good-quality resources, the mushrooms are sorted by hand in the Paldau works with much skill and sensitivity. In this way Estyria guarantees a reliable, tasty natural product that meets high quality standards and due diligence principles.
Numerous large orders both from the food retail trade and the discount sector demonstrate yet again that decades of expertise, diligence and quality manual work remain sought-after even in unusual times such as these.
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The biggest contract grower
of oil pumpkins PGI
Alwera AG, Estyria’s parent company, is responsible for production of the raw goods via a contract farming system. The two companies have for some years maintained the largest PDI area of oil pumpkin in Austria and they know the fields and the farmers personally.
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Traditional Styrian
stamp press process
While modernity has brought progress in many areas, the traditional Styrian stamp press process is still the best way of making pumpkin seed oil. The main difference between this and other pressing methods is that we work with open roasting pans. At our plant, people check when the pumpkin seeds are perfectly roasted and so will yield the very best oil. This enables our experienced oil millers to produce the pumpkin seed oil that has won more prizes than any other – and which as a result of this type of pressing retains all the natural constituents. The untreated oil is not filtered; the particles that make it cloudy settle naturally when the oil is left to rest.
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