CAN SHELF LIFE BE CONSIDERED AS A MEAN TO PROMOTE VEGETABLE PRODUCTS OF SUSTAINABLE LOCAL VARIETIES?

In connection with the increasing interest for the consumption of food products of thelocal tradition, an investigation on the behavior of the consumers were conduct out foragricultural products also used as first subject for the preparation of ready dishes. Lately,also for the prepared alimentary products, processes of substitution it is assisted withproducts of the local tradition. The consumer, in fact, also for the ready foods it declarespriority for the products food of the native saperis. In this context, particular the role of thegrain legumes. The analysis proposed in this paper purely concerns the propensity to theconsumption of legumes typical of an agricultural territory of Sicily.