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SABORS D'ORIGEN
It's Im-perfect ®
They are a vegetable preserves brand committed to environmental sustainability and social justice.
In their workshop they make vegetable pates, jams and sauces with local fruits and vegetables discarded from the commercial circuit due to being imperfect (different shapes or sizes, stains, marks or being too ripe), due to price drops (when the market price falls below production and harvesting costs, forcing producers to leave the harvest in the field), or due to production surpluses.
At es im-perfect® they reinvent them and give them new value through a sustainable model based on the principles of the circular economy.
A project by the Espigoladors Foundation
Es im-perfect® is the employment and food transformation company of the Espigoladors Foundation, a non-profit organization that acts on three social needs through an innovative and empowering model: fighting for food use, guaranteeing the right to healthy and sustainable food for the entire population and creating job opportunities for groups at risk of social exclusion.
In 2018, they inaugurated the es im-perfect® brand workshop in the Sant Cosme del Prat de Llobregat neighborhood. Thus, a few kilometers from the Baix Llobregat Agricultural Park -known as “the pantry of the metropolitan region of Barcelona”-, a space for socio-labor insertion and innovation for food use was born that consolidated the circular model of Espigoladors.
The Es Im-perfect ® manifesto
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They take advantage of fruits
and vegetables that are not
they usually sell at
commercial circuit.
Some are
related to
aesthetic criteria and,
others derive from the dynamics of the current agri-food model.
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They bet on the
circular bioeconomy
as the only paradigm
production
sustainable as possible.
They recover discarded food from the commercial circuit and transform it into high-quality products, avoiding the loss of these and the resources used in their production.
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They offer job and training opportunities in their workshop.
for people at risk of social exclusion.
They are very clear that for a product to be sustainable it must be socially responsible and must be produced in a decent workplace.
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They fight for
the use
food.
1/3 of the food produced worldwide that is fit for human consumption ends up being discarded. Wasting food has very serious economic, environmental and social implications and consequences.
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We promote natural, healthy and quality food.
They make all their preserves using an artisanal process where they treat all the ingredients with great care to guarantee their quality.
All im-perfect® products are natural, free of artificial colors and preservatives.
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Defensen la pagesia
local i el
producte de proximitat.
Visibilitzen i defensen la tasca imprescindible que fa la pagesia als territoris. Totes les fruites i verdures de les seves conserves provenen de productors i productores locals. Consumint productes locals i de temporada, aposten per una alimentació més sostenible.
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Aposten per una transformació del sistema agroalimentari.
La seva lluita està alineada amb la voluntat d’avançar cap a models més sostenibles i locals, que garanteixin l’accés a una alimentació saludable per a tothom i la sobirania alimentària dels territoris.
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They want to inspire an attitude towards life: imperfect, conscious and sustainable.
Moving forward towards food security and social justice requires the collaboration of all.
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