Gourmet Products - Pasta,India price supplier

Imported by : Chenab Impex (Mumbai, India)

Pasta, pasta. Dry pasta, fresh pasta. Pasta is without doubt the most important of our national foodstuffs, it has become the trademark of Italy, the one product that the whole world identifies with our country. The vast pasta industry has a responsibility that is absolutely irreplaceable; it has the job of providing healthy nutrition at a low cost. The quality of manufactured plain pasta has improved considerably over recent years. Large scale manufacturers need no longer envy the quality of pasta produced by smaller home industries, so popular amongst spaghetti fans. This is however, only true for dry, plain, durum wheat pasta.

The situation is rather different for egg pastas and especially for freshly made egg pasta, where the magic word "fresh" has helped open a market that has been flooded with poor quality products. The pasta produced by small, home industry pasta makers has a humidity level that exceeds forty per cent and therefore it does not swell during cooking. This kind of pasta is also full of bacteria, for which the humidity and egg content provide an ideal culture medium. In addition to these drawbacks, the flour that is used is nearly always a soft wheat type and therefore has a low gluten content and poor nutritional values. The rolling process is also very limited as the pasta is often simply passed once or twice under a roller or at times even under a press.