Zolfino bean is a typical product of agriculture in some areas of Tuscany. It is also called the bean of the hundred because it is sown on the centenary of the year, or bean bean. The zolfino is small and round, until the 80's of the last century it was possible to find only a few farmers in the hilly area around Loro Ciuffenna.
Today it has been rediscovered and valued up to the IGP recognition request, and currently they produce almost 20 tons in the "typical" area of ​​the Pratomagno valley of Valdarn, at 250, 300 meters and up to 600 meters high.
Its name comes from the pale yellow color, similar to sulfur. The characteristics that exalt it are the finest peel (a peculiarity that makes it very digestible), in addition to the dense and creamy consistency, the intense flavor, the ability to hold the baking.
Loves poor land and does not survive on the plain, because her radical - extremely superficial - apparatus does not tolerate the slightest stagnation of water. It is generally sown in April, often on the terraces beneath the olive trees, so that the water slips away, among the dry stone stones.