Bellavita Expo Set to Showcase the Latest in Italian Free-From Food

With an enormous rise in customers opting for free-from products - including gluten or lactose-free - and an increase in followers of vegetarian and vegan diets, free-from products are becoming essential items to stock in the UK hospitality and grocery industries. Bellavita wishes to cater to the trend by showcasing some of Italy’s most sought-after free-from products:

Casanova Food is the creator of gluten-free pasta, Pasta di Venezia, which includes a full range of both flat and filled pastas. Its products are also completely organic.

Other gluten-free products at the show include Compagnia del Pesto Genovese, which is an artisanal gluten-free basil pesto. Also, Fraccaro Spumadoro SPA has created the first organic and gluten-free panettone and organic gluten-free colomba made with natural yeast. With pannetone being the most popular and traditional Italian gift and dessert to buy for Easter and Christmas, this is an important advancement that reflects the needs of the modern customer, says Bellavita.

Fidani SRL goes a step further by creating fine baked, hand-cut sweets that are both lactose and gluten-free,vegan and contain no chemical preservatives, additional emulsifiers, palm oils or margarine. Other key free-from confectionery products include vegan cakes made by the Toschi family. Established in the mid-1980s, the family bakery has begun to create cakes especially for the vegan market using no palm oil or margarine.

Aldo Mazzocco, CEO of Bellavita Expo said, “We pride ourselves on seeking out the most innovative independent Italian producers to bring their latest products to the UK. Free-from is of huge importance in the UK and Bellavita Expo is the ideal platform for producers to showcase them.”