The Production
RAGUSA Company follows agricultural cultivation techniques based on integrated fight method, safeguarding high quality agriculture according to echo-sustainability; chemical products use is very reduced and it is integrated with agronomic echo-compatible methods.
RAGUSA COMPANY policy inspires to these points:
- High-quality standards
- Healthy products
- Environment care
Lancelot tomato
Lancelot tomato is a "San Marzano" hybrid and is singularly cropped with red maturation. In "Sir Elyan" kind is very productive, with indeterminate growing and medium energy.
Fruits have round-long shape, round top and smooth skin. They are very homogeneous, big size, full and with a very thick pulp that make them very tough and high endurance after the harvest.
Lacelot tomato has an high brix degree, so it very good to taste and can be offered in different maturation stages and colors (green, with various pigmentation and red) thanks to excellent organoleptic properties.
Bunch red tomato
Bunch red tomato with round shape, red brilliant color and maturation. Homogeneous and regular bunch, with uniform maturation 6-8 fruits. Excellent consistence and split resistance, long-lasting shelf on the plant.
It is rich of vitamins and minerals and perfect for sport people, because of potassium that prevents cramps. Latest researches shown the presence of an anti-oxidant substance protecting aging cells contrasting free radicals: lycopene.
This kind of tomato is really good for Mediterranean courses preparation and in agroindustrial field for juices, sauces and toppings.
Piccadilly tomato
Hybrid tomato plant, with indeterminate step, medium energy and high productivity. These oval shape tomatoes are very sweet, with excellent consistence and high endurance after the harvest. Intense and brilliant red color make Piccadilly tomato attractive for the consumer.
It can be harvested in red bunch or singularly and it is very much appreciated to make sauces, because you can blend it or cook with peel.
Piccadilly tomato has an high fiber level, a good sugar content and carotenoids. High proteins and C vitamin content, good lycopene content.
Long and round eggplant
The scientific name is solanum melongena and belongs to Solanacee family as tomato, pepper and potato. The plant is a small bush, some metres high, with thin fluff leaves and lilac flowers.
Eggplant is a self-pollinating plant with a good cross-pollinating as well and it contains vitamins and mineral salt, important phytonutrients with anti-oxidant activity. Eggplant is gluten free so celiac people can eat it.
It is a very versatile vegetable and you can cook it in different ways, fried with breading, steam cooked, baked in oven, grilled, for stuffing, rolls and tasty eggplant Parmigiana.
Red, yellow and green pepper
Pepper is a fresh vegetable belonging to Solanacee family, the same family of tomatoes, potatoes and eggplants.
Peppers types differ for taste, shape and color that can be yellow for more tender and juicy peppers; or red for crisp, thick and sugar content peppers; or green for peppers harvested before their full maturation.
Pepper is a vegetable with very low calorie count and, for this reason, it is particularly suggested in low calorie slimming diets. This vegetable is full of A and C vitamins, calcium, phosphorus and potassium as well, due to substances such as lecithin, capsaicin and pectin. Uncooked pepper gives basic substances, such as minerals, fats, sugars, proteins and vitamins.