The Sweet & Seedless Angello pepper from Syngenta has fought off tough competition to win the Fruit Logistica award for innovation 2012.
The red baby pepper is crunchy and 25 per cent sweeter than normal peppers so it’s full of flavour and makes an appetising snack.
At the Berlin trade show, Syngenta installed a chocolate fountain so visitors could dip the Angello peppers for an intriguing treat that kept the company’s stand busy.
It was developed through conventional breeding over a period of 15 years. Different genetic sources were combined to develop pepper plants that consistently produced the seedless pepper.
Business Luciano Fioramonti and grower Benny Nir collected the award at the close of the Fruit Logistica conference in Berlin.
Nir said: “I’m very happy to be here, it’s a dream come true. I remember six years ago when I just sowed the first plant than can be considered as a seedless pepper and to see here all these peppers around, when I sowed one single plant six years ago, I am very happy to be here.
“Thank you very much to all my colleagues and my managers that pushed me to continue and I hope that they will bring more innovation to this place.”
The Sweet & Seedless Pepper is produced in greenhouses in Israel, Spain and The Netherlands. Angello is an umbrella brand created for Syngenta’s innovative produce.
Rijk Zwaan’s international social media network lovemysalad.com was runner up for its efforts to increase fruit and vegetable consumption and conversation on the topic.
The Achacha fruit from the Bolivian Amazon Basin came third. It has exotic appeal similar to the mangosteen, longan, rambutan and lychee.
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