Taste and use

That's what makes these Andalusian pomegranate seeds so special:

• Taste: The dried kernels are crunchy and have a pleasant sweetness.
• Quality features: These are seeds from ripe, untreated pomegranates that have been gently dried.
• Use: The pomegranate seeds are a wonderful addition to muesli, as a topping on salads or simply as a snack between meals.

Cultivation and ecology

This is how pomegranates are grown:

• Cultivation method: Organic farming. In addition to pomegranates, figs, olives, carob and grapes are also grown.
• Producers: Together with his family, Manolo Jiménez Perez runs his small one-hectare organic farm in the Valle del Guadalhorce near Málaga. He is working intensively on how the scarce resource of water can be used as sparingly as possible and is working on a system to collect the naturally available moisture in the Guadalhorce Valley. He is also adapting his crops step by step to the location and climatic changes. Instead of withered avocado trees, he has planted fig trees, as well as pomegranate and carob trees, which cope comparatively well with the prevailing climate. He grows wild vines and grafts them with varieties he has selected to create plants that are as resilient as possible. Manolo also likes to experiment with symbiotic relationships between crops and learns from year to year. Manolo is a member of Guadalhorce Ecológico, a cooperative that has joined Tierra y Libertad, our partner cooperative in Andalusia.

This is how the price is made up

Cultivation & processing CHF 5.94

• Cultivation and harvesting: Manolo Jiménez Perez
• Processing: Guadalhorce Ecológico, Tierra y Libertad

Transport & logistics CHF 2.26

• Export and logistics: Unilogistics
• Fees: Customs
• Quality assurance: Laboratory
• Packaging: Zurich plant
• Shipping: Post

Procurement & distribution CHF 3.04

• Coordination, communication, online market: Crowd Container