San Juan Truffle
TUBER AESTIVUM VITT
It is a wonderful and stylish fungus, slightly well-known and considered by general public since it tends to be compared with the Tuber melanosporum or winter black truffle. Although both are tuber genre, they are different species, each one of them are provided with own and specific characteristics.
If the black truffle is the black diamond in the kitchen, the black gold from the Aragonese field, the summer truffle is the undiscovered Pearl.
Its harvest time is from ends of May up to ends of August. Its shape is irregular, and its size is very variable. Black on the outside, and white / yellowish shades inside, with white seams as those in its winter sister. Its aroma is subtler than the melanosporum but equally very distinctive, recalling almonds, hazelnuts and, in general, tree nuts with toasty nuances. Its flavor is elegant and more resistant to heat than other truffles.
This truffle is much used in fillings, fish, vegetables and salads. It stands heat better so we can cook it, since it leaves more taste than other truffles.
Try and use it in your kitchen, its quality and price will allow you to enrich your more elaborate dishes.
Our quality guarantee is endorsed by the strict adherence to the laws and recommendations of traceability, service and environment which accompany us in the whole process of compilation, cleanliness of truffles and elaboration of our wonderful gourmet products.
Where are our truffles born?
In case of the winter black truffle (Tuber Melanosporum), our ones with which we work are a 100 % Spanish and, in particular, from Aragon area, main worldwide producer of this fungus. (If you want to know more on the topic, please click on here). 95 % of them is from plantations since the wild one is very scarce. We focus farmings with a Sustainable Quality management system.
The summer and autumn truffles have the same origin but wild in a 100 % and their compilation is accomplished by the same Sustainable Quality criteria.
How do we work with our truffles?
On the other hand, we have always realized well that we had to be a reference regarding sanitary regulation and current food safety policies, before our company setting up, adapting all our facilities to regulations.
Every truffle is cleaned individually by hand, with special brushes and cold water which is analysed periodically. Then, cleanliness process with ultrasounds is started before a naturally drying.
Truffles preserve in cold at between 1 to 4 Cº. They are just packed in the same moment to be sent.
How do we work the rest of our products?
Salt with truffle, truffle powder, dehydrated truffle, lyophilizate truffle, risotto with truffle and boletus, scented oil.
All of them are prepared with our own truffles and with the help of collaborating companies which take a chance on, as we do, the Guarantee of Sustainable Quality.
UNIVERSO TRUFA SC Sanitaries guarantees
These numbers, granted by the Competent Health Authority of the Government of Aragon and the Government of Spain, allow us to market truffles, mushrooms and any other packaged and bulk vegetable product, as well as the rest of our delicacies.
The Sanitary Registry is a guarantee of food quality throughout the world.
We carry the traceability of each of the truffles and elaborates that enter and leave our facilities. Each shipment has a unique batch number, with which we can find out the origin, collector and the time of collection of the truffles.
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