ONLY PRODUCTS COVERED BY THE PROTECTED DENOMINATION OF ORIGIN ARE AUTHENTIC GUIJUELO AND THE TERM "GUIJUELO" IS FOR THE EXCLUSIVE USE OF THEM.
The Protected Designation of Origin GUIJUELO verifies compliance with the Specifications for certifying hams and shoulders of differentiated quality.
This DOP protects a name originating from a specific place "GUIJUELO".
The area of livestock production of pigs is linked to the dehesa and to the extensiveness, its star product being the acorn.
The production area has climatic conditions that allow natural drying, which admits reducing the salting times to a minimum, obtaining a product with a "sweet" and very little salty flavour.
These traditional methods involve slow, measured curing processes, which promote the quality of the protected products.
The traceability of each piece is individually guaranteed with a tamper-proof, unique and numbered security seal, label and back label.
The protection for GUIJUELO extends to the entire EU territory and to 16 countries outside the EU such as Canada, South Korea, Japan, etc., with Singapore being the latest country to have granted this protection.
"IF IT IS NOT PRODUCT DOP, IT IS NOT GUIJUELO"