Pasta is the Covid dish of the year with the historical record of exports for a value of more than 3.1 billion in 2020 thanks to a jump of 16%, in sharp contrast with the general trend of Made in Italy.
This is revealed by an analysis by Coldiretti on Istat data, which highlights "that never before has so much Italian pasta been consumed on world tables".
The agricultural organization stresses that "with the pandemic, the United States has become the world's largest consumers of Italian pasta outside national borders, thanks to a record increase of 40% which allows it to overtake France (+ 4.3%) and Germany. (+ 16%), but Great Britain is also running (+ 19%) despite Brexit ".
Growth in other continents is also significant, with an increase of 39% in Australia while in Asia, there is a leap in Japan (+ 16%) and China (+ 23%).
"Pasta also wins at home with Italians who have increased purchases in value by 10% in 2020 with peaks of 29% for that produced only with tricolor wheat", says Coldiretti.
The organization also recalls, on the basis of its analysis on Ismea data, the home boom of 'do-it-yourself' that has made the consumption of flour (+ 38%) and eggs (+ 14.5%) soar, with the mixer has become an indispensable tool in the kitchen, so much so that it even officially enters the Istat basket in 2020.
Italy - concludes Coldiretti - is "the country with the highest consumption of pasta for a quantity of 23.5 kilograms each against 17 in Tunisia, second in this special ranking, followed by Venezuela (12 kg), Greece ( 11 kg), Chile (9.4 kg), United States (8.8 kg), Argentina and Turkey tied (8.7 kg).