The eat clean trend is also conquering Italy: which is undoubtedly good news. The eat clean diet is in fact a lifestyle, and not a diet in the strict sense: via industrial foods, for only natural alternatives. Via the ready-made preparations, from biscuits to soups to frozen foods, for homemade alternatives with ingredients as raw and wholemeal as possible: from honey to stone-ground wholemeal flour, from meat to local and organic fish, from organic and farmed eggs ground up to raw milk cheeses.

From legumes to fruit to vegetables. The important thing is that the food is as clean as possible, that is, in the most primitive, uncontaminated state. From this trend of eat clean, which in Italian we could translate as a natural diet or a “clean” diet, also comes the philosophy of the Paleodieta. The advantages of this way of eating are numerous: the palate gets used to more genuine, less sweet, less counterfeit flavors. We also avoid taking a series of substances, including additives and preservatives, which are not really good for the body. Furthermore, the eat clean diet or natural diet has a lower glycemic index than a normal diet full of industrial foods. Away with hidden sugars, away with salt. There are already many Italians who, without resorting to this definition, fall within this framework. I myself eat a healthy diet as much as possible from this point of view: in my house there are no snacks, packaged biscuits and many other industrial products. However this is my tendency.I don’t go into a rage if I buy ladyfingers to make a tiramisu. If I use regular sugar for once, no tragedy happens. But precisely: when this tendency to eat a natural diet becomes instead a way to limit one’s life and ruin one’s relationship with food?