Paprika Žitava

Paprika Žitava, also known as Žitavská paprika, is the first product from the Slovak Republic to acquire the prestigious PDO (Protected designation of origin) quality mark. It takes its name from the Žitava River valley where these peppers were first grown, but since then, it has spread across the Danubian lowlands.

The product is a sweet paprika powder made by grinding the dried peppers that are harvested when ripe. It has an intense, orange to red color, due to the oil that gets released from the seeds in the final stage of the grinding process. Its flavor is delicately sweet and intensely deep, reminiscent of sweet peppers, with no bitterness at all.