{"id":14340,"date":"2023-02-13T18:47:20","date_gmt":"2023-02-13T16:47:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/itacpro.develacq.startgoconnection.es\/?p=14340"},"modified":"2023-02-13T18:47:20","modified_gmt":"2023-02-13T16:47:20","slug":"almonds-in-professional-and-industrial-confectionery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.itac-professional.com\/en\/blog\/almonds-in-professional-and-industrial-confectionery\/","title":{"rendered":"Spanish almonds in professional and industrial confectionery"},"content":{"rendered":"

Paco Torreblanca, winner of the award for best pastry chef in the world, presents us the origin, history and evolution of three well-known pastry recipes and how almonds are the key ingredient in all of them.\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n

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After working on different projects, together with Michelin-starred chefs, hotel and catering schools and technological centres specialising in gastronomy, we present <\/span>a new information dissemination proposal by Itac Professional <\/span>aimed at professionals in a segment of great interest when it comes to the use of our nuts: confectionery.<\/span><\/p>\n

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We are now developing a project within the framework of our new <\/span>Hub of Inspiration<\/b>: Innovation and creativity in the use of nuts for food service and food industry professionals. On this occasion, we will focus on almonds, a fundamental ingredient of the Mediterranean diet.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Almonds, as an ingredient of the nuts category, are a key product in many countries’ food industries<\/span>.<\/span> If we look back at their history, it was the Arabs who introduced them into the Mediterranean diet that we enjoy today in Spain. However, even before the Iberian Peninsula’s Arab period, almonds crushed with honey were already being used to make cakes and other confectionery products.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Our almonds, their varieties, quality and different properties in terms of flavour, texture and appearance capture the attention of great professionals of the industry from all over the world. Whether whole or in the form of their various derivatives, <\/span>almonds are used<\/span> in artisanal production processes that can be taken to scale.<\/span><\/p>\n

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As <\/span>suppliers of almonds<\/span><\/a> for the <\/span>food service channel<\/span><\/a> and the <\/span>food industry<\/span><\/a>, we at <\/span>Itac Professional<\/b>, Importaco’s B2B brand, have more than 80 years of experience working with Spanish varieties. <\/span>As part of this new project that aims to disseminate information about nuts<\/b>, we wanted to explore the use of this ingredient in three of the most globally recognised <\/span>industrially-produced confectionery recipes<\/span>: <\/span>tejas<\/span><\/i>, macarons and financiers.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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