Why eating fruits and vegetables in season?

Eating ingredients when in season is the best way to gain taste and health.

Indeed, eating in season means respecting the physiological time of the fruits and vegetables. In other words means eating foods high in nutritional value. But, not only, fresh seasonal products allow us to take vitamins and minerals in the proper way.

Summer season fruits and vegetables in Italy.

Italian summer is very hot and makes it necessary to take foods rich in water and fiber, such as raw vegetables. Not surprisingly, the nature offers us a wide range of products such as melons, cucumbers, watermelons, eggplants, peppers. Also tomatoes, potatoes, peaches, nectarines, apricots, figs and berries. All ingredients helpful for our body.

Where to buy fresh fruit in Rome.

Rome is a foodie-city. Moreover it is full of restaurants and trattorias. As well as citizens mostly cooking at home. Therefore, there is a plenty of places where to by your groceries. From weekly farmer’s markets selling farm to table (Km 0) ingredients to daily markets. From supermarkets to little fresh ingredients boutiques.
There are open-sky markets in the City:

• Campo de Fiori – the oldest in the city centre
• San Cosimato in Trastevere district
• Mercato Trieste in Trieste district
• San Giovanni di Dio – Monteverde

You can find indoor markets too:

• Mercato Trionfale in Prati district – close the Vatican
• Mercato Rionale in Monti district – close the Colosseum
• Testaccio in Testaccio district – close to Piramide
• Nuovo mercato Esquilino – close to termini station
• Mercato Centrale – inside Termini Station

There are also some Farm to table , generally opened during weekends:

• San Teodoro market – close Circus Maximum
• Campagna Amica at the Auditorium  – close to the Auditorium Parco della Musica

If we eat these seasonal products can benefit from an extraordinary flavor. Moreover we will protect our skin from exposure to sunlight, and we recover the minerals lost through sweating.

Discover more taking one of our guided food tours.