Styria PDO Austria EU/Europe International
conventional
From mung beans to lentils
Pulses long ago shook off their image of being a “poor man’s food” mentioned only in historical footnotes. They bring diversity, colour and their own special taste to the table – in the form of speckled scarlet runner beans, black beans, mung beans, pinto beans or lentils.
PDO
Protected designation of origin
Vegan
European vegetarian union
IFS
International Food Standard
Food Defense
Comprehensive food defense
FIC compliant
EU Food Information for Consumers Regulations
Our product range
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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