{"id":16041,"date":"2017-04-14T14:17:32","date_gmt":"2017-04-14T12:17:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.visitsicily.info\/?p=16041"},"modified":"2025-11-18T10:30:00","modified_gmt":"2025-11-18T09:30:00","slug":"the-mediterranean-diet","status":"publish","type":"sapore","link":"https:\/\/www.visitsicily.info\/en\/sapore\/the-mediterranean-diet\/","title":{"rendered":"The Mediterranean Diet"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box fusion-builder-row-1 fusion-flex-container nonhundred-percent-fullwidth non-hundred-percent-height-scrolling\" style=\"--awb-border-radius-top-left:0px;--awb-border-radius-top-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-left:0px;--awb-flex-wrap:wrap;\" ><div class=\"fusion-builder-row fusion-row fusion-flex-align-items-flex-start fusion-flex-content-wrap\" style=\"max-width:1248px;margin-left: calc(-4% \/ 2 );margin-right: calc(-4% \/ 2 );\"><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-0 fusion_builder_column_1_1 1_1 fusion-flex-column\" style=\"--awb-bg-size:cover;--awb-width-large:100%;--awb-margin-top-large:0px;--awb-spacing-right-large:1.92%;--awb-margin-bottom-large:0px;--awb-spacing-left-large:1.92%;--awb-width-medium:100%;--awb-spacing-right-medium:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-medium:1.92%;--awb-width-small:100%;--awb-spacing-right-small:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-small:1.92%;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-flex-justify-content-flex-start fusion-content-layout-column\"><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-1\"><p>Through its ingredients and dishes, the Mediterranean diet narrates two thousand years of history and cross-cultural influences. It has become, at the same time, a nutritional inspiration for the world, an ideal model to follow for its beneficial effects on longevity and health. For these reasons, in November 2010, it was recognised by<a href=\"https:\/\/www.visitsicily.info\/brochure\/siti-unesco\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> UNESCO<\/a> as an intangible cultural heritage site.<\/p>\n<p>The region is presented through its simple and genuine products: olive oil, cereals, fresh and dried fruit, honeys, vegetables, fish and a moderate amount of meat and dairy products, together with local wines. These ingredients, imaginatively combined, create delicacies rich in the flavour of the sun and the sea, to be enjoyed unhurriedly and with the joy of being together at the table.<\/p>\n<p>This <a href=\"https:\/\/www.visitsicily.info\/itinerario\/tour-nella-cucina-vegetariana-della-sicilia\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">tour of Sicily&#8217;s vegetarian cuisine<\/a> will take you on a discovery of countless dishes based on vegetables, pulses, spices and cheese. And who knows what other <a href=\"https:\/\/www.visitsicily.info\/sapori\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">flavours<\/a> Sicily has in store for you!<\/p>\n<p>Try your hand at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.visitsicily.info\/ricette\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">recipes<\/a> selected to bring Sicily directly to your table.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":39486,"template":"","categories":[1928,1936,1924],"luogo":[],"stagione":[1874,1877,1875,1876],"class_list":["post-16041","sapore","type-sapore","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-territorio-en","category-unesco-en","category-sapori-en","stagione-autumn","stagione-spring","stagione-summer","stagione-winter"],"acf":{"galleria":false,"localizzazione":"<div class=\"leaflet-map\" data-height=\"400\" data-map=\"leaflet\" data-map-lng=\"14.1778564\" data-map-lat=\"37.4486966\" data-map-zoom=\"7\" data-map-layers=\"[&quot;CartoDB.Voyager&quot;]\" data-map-markers=\"[]\"><\/div>\n","paragrafo_1":"<blockquote><p>The essence of a place also encompasses its scents and flavours.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Few places in the world manage to encapsulate so many scents and flavours together as Sicily.<\/p>\n<p>This is why the Mediterranean diet manages to express the essence and the most profound synthesis of this island and symbolises its quality of life. It is not for nothing that the word &#8220;dieta&#8221;, from the Greek <em>diaita<\/em>, means &#8220;lifestyle'&#8221;.<\/p>\n","titolo_paragrafo_1":"Details","sottotitolo":""},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>The Mediterranean Diet - Visit Sicily<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The Mediterranean diet manages to express the essence and the most profound synthesis of this island and symbolises its quality of life\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.visitsicily.info\/en\/sapore\/the-mediterranean-diet\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The Mediterranean Diet - Visit Sicily\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Mediterranean diet manages to express the essence and the most profound synthesis of this island and symbolises its quality of life\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.visitsicily.info\/en\/sapore\/the-mediterranean-diet\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Visit Sicily\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/visitsicily.info\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2025-11-18T09:30:00+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.visitsicily.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/dieta-mediterranea.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"749\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"448\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@VisitSicilyOP\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.visitsicily.info\/en\/sapore\/the-mediterranean-diet\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.visitsicily.info\/en\/sapore\/the-mediterranean-diet\/\",\"name\":\"The Mediterranean Diet - Visit Sicily\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.visitsicily.info\/en\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.visitsicily.info\/en\/sapore\/the-mediterranean-diet\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.visitsicily.info\/en\/sapore\/the-mediterranean-diet\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.visitsicily.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/dieta-mediterranea.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2017-04-14T12:17:32+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2025-11-18T09:30:00+00:00\",\"description\":\"The Mediterranean diet manages to express the essence and the most profound synthesis of this island and symbolises its quality of life\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.visitsicily.info\/en\/sapore\/the-mediterranean-diet\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.visitsicily.info\/en\/sapore\/the-mediterranean-diet\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.visitsicily.info\/en\/sapore\/the-mediterranean-diet\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.visitsicily.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/dieta-mediterranea.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.visitsicily.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/dieta-mediterranea.jpg\",\"width\":749,\"height\":448,\"caption\":\"La dieta mediterranea - ph. 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