Mediterranean Diet
Our daily bread
Our daily bread
A staple of the human diet since time immemorial. With a place in our history, in our culture, on our tables. Whatever the recipe or method, breadmaking is regarded by many as a science, or even an art – and this is the craft to which our fresh dough factory devotes itself day in, day out.
The Landscape we Eat
The Landscape we Eat
For landscape architect and university professor Paulo Farinha Marques, the landscape is the visual expression of the Mediterranean diet. The researcher compares the erosion of this knowledge to the extinction of a species.
A Plateful of Health Benefits
A Plateful of Health Benefits
One of the key features of the Mediterranean diet is its frugality. People have to adjust what they eat to what they really need. Alejandro Santos, researcher and lecturer in nutrition, explains how we can benefit from the many upsides of the Mediterranean diet.
The Culture of Togetherness
The Culture of Togetherness
Pedro Graça is committed to helping improve nutrition and health in Portugal. The researcher tells us about the Mediterranean diet’s ability to create a culture around the table and its potential for protecting us against infectious diseases.
A Legacy with a Future
A Legacy with a Future
Originating more than eight thousand years ago on the shores of a sea that has always been much more than just that, the Mediterranean diet is today a precious but fragile heirloom.
The Many Faces of Juliana
The Many Faces of Juliana
No complete meal exists in Portugal without a nutritious soup. On its 40th anniversary, Pingo Doce celebrates this delicacy with 8 recipes under the name of one of Portugal’s iconic soups: Juliana.
Soup with Character
Soup with Character
Photographer Luís Mileu explores the flavours and secrets behind the recipes of eight women in eight regions of Portugal. Guardians of a cherished tradition that must be preserved: the Mediterranean diet with a Portuguese twist.
Olive oil, the liquid gold
Olive oil, the liquid gold
The timeless tradition of squeezing the oil out of the olive gave birth to a liquid gold whose only enemy is the passage of time.
Mediterranean Diet @Jerónimo Martins
Mediterranean Diet @Jerónimo Martins
Pingo Doce, the Group’s leading supermarket chain in Portugal, adopts the principles of the Mediterranean Diet for developing its Private Brand products.