Turanicum wheat, or Khorasan wheat

Why choose Turanicum pasta or Turanicum wheat-based flours?
Because Khorasan, or Turanicum wheat is an ancient variety:

• Highly digestible.
• Cardiovascular supporter.
• Intestinal health supporter.
• Which improves the blood risk profile of diabetic subjects.
• Which acts in an anti-aging function.

From a nutritional point of view, it is also one of the most nutritionally complete grains due to its higher amount of Vitamin E, amino acids, and elements such as selenium, zinc, magnesium and potassium.

The characteristics and the benefits of Turanicum wheat

As proven by a study conducted by the University of Florence, a diet of Khorasan wheat compared with other grains has positive effects:

• on the cardiovascular risk
• on the symptoms of irritable bowel syndrome,
• on the levels of insulin and blood glucose.

In this study, some diabetic volunteers (type 2) were asked to eat, over two periods of 8 weeks each, two different types of wheat, but without being told which one. One was a type of modern wheat, the other Khorasan wheat.

At the end of the test, the results of the study showed that with Turanicum wheat the following was achieved:

• a decrease in total cholesterol (- 4 percent) and LDL cholesterol (- 7.8 percent)
• a decrease in blood glucose (-4 percent)
• improvement of symptoms such as the intensity and frequency of abdominal pain, bloating, fatigue, and abdominal distension.

In addition, compared to other grains, Turanicum wheat contains a high percentage of selenium, a trace element which is essential for eliminating free radicals and defending cells from the oxidative damage.
More broadly, it counteracts cellular aging.

The history of Turanicum wheat

Like many grains, this extraordinary ancient grain originated in the “fertile crescent,” that cradle of civilization between the Mediterranean and the Persian Gulf where the domestication of grains took place some 8,000 years ago.

Our Turanicum wheat takes its name from Tūrān, a vast region of Asia between the Iranian Plateau (once Persia), the Caspian Sea and the Kyrgyz steppe.

The other name, Khorasan, is also very evocative: in fact, in Persian it translates to “where the sun originates.”

Like all ancient grains, it has not undergone the modern grain selection required by industrial production to make them more resistant and productive, or to obtain “stronger” flours: on the contrary, it has remained as pure and authentic as it was millennia ago: fortunately, given its important characteristics which include a protein composition that makes it particularly digestible..

Capoccia Bio Turanicum wheat

Much in the same way as millennia ago, we continue to cultivate it in our controlled supply chain: using seeds free from economic monopolies and freely reusable, turning it into good and health-promoting foods such as the “Turanicum” flours and pasta line.

In the June 07, 2021 episode the TV program Report addressed the issue of the ancient wheat variety Khorasan registered in the U.S. and marketed worldwide as organic wheat under the brand name “Kamut®,” revealing that the analyses of imported Kamut®-branded Khorasan wheat at one point no longer matched those of actual organic wheat. And one of the leading Italian pasta manufacturers, which was using it, simply downgraded it from organic to conventional wheat.

In our fields, our life around the ears of wheat, which are still green today, speaks for itself: this is the Khorasan wheat we grow that will become “Turanicum” flour and pasta.

Organic and without any trickery, because we really believe in it.