The Instituto de la Grasa is a CSIC research centre that specializes in food lipids and oleaginous products, especially olives. It participates in several European projects on innovative extraction techniques, fatty amines, and bio-based products.
The Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale della Sicilia “A. Mirri” (IZSSi) is a health body of public law with administrative, managerial and technical autonomy that operates within the S.S.N. whose fundamental task is to carry out, throughout the region, health services necessary to guarantee the essential levels (LEA) of veterinary hygiene and public health.
The fruit (tunas) and the branches (nopal) are unique and of a high quality when compared to others globally, and are grown organically without chemicals or pesticides. The new varieties have become the base to create new dishes and nutritional products.