Diario Oficial de la Unión Europea del 30/8/2023 - Comunicaciones e Informaciones
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Source: Diario Oficial de la Unión Europea - Comunicaciones e Informaciones
30.8.2023
EN
Official Journal of the European Union
C 306/31
The human factor has had a significant influence on the local unimproved population of , with long-standing expertise built up over time, as described below:
The rigorous selection of healthy seeds that meet the product specification ensures the purity of the local unimproved population.
/ Faki Eglouvis is the only lentil variety in Greece that is sown from winter to spring. Over the centuries, the human factor has thus served to protect the products specificity.
Depending on when the lentils are sown, harvesting takes place at the appropriate time, when they are ripe. The colour of the pods and the rounding of the lentils in the pods are essential indicators of ripening.
As regards drying, it is directly linked to harvesting at the right time. The ripening of the pods is the main criterion for harvesting, so the moisture content is generally low. The fact that the lentils are exposed for some hours to the warm, dry environment during harvesting helps this low moisture content to decrease still further.
Sorting is done either using the traditional method threshing - winnowing or mechanically in the vast majority of cases; the purpose is to remove foreign matter from the lentils. The human factor plays a significant role here also through double sieving and thorough examination and discarding by hand.
Accounting entries and deeds/wills attest to the fact that lentils have been grown since the 18th century and there are references to domed stone structures voltoi for lentil storage.
lentils have been mentioned by historians, folklorists and journalists, etc. since the period of Venetian rule in Greece.
Cooking lentils on 6 August is a local tradition that has been celebrated in the village of Englouvi, with its characteristic dome-shaped stone buildings voltoi, since the beginning of the 20th century.
The well-known gourmet, Ilias Mamalakis, showcased in one of his television programmes, in which he declared: In the Bible, Esau sold his birthright for a mess of pottage i.e. a dish of lentils. I would give all the delicacies of the world for a plate of lentils from Englouvi!
Reference to publication of the product specification http www.minagric.gr/images/stories/docs/agrotis/POP-PGE/2020/prod_faki_eglouvis201222.pdf
