Alb-Leisa

"Eco-producer association Alb-Leisa"), secondly a trade name and thirdly traditional varieties of lentils from the Swabian Jura, Germany.

The Alb-Leisa was included in the Ark of Taste at Slow Food Deutschland in 2012.

[2] In 1908, the daily newspaper Tübinger Chronik reported an increase in cultivation on the Alb.

For this reason, the organic farm Mammel and later the producer's association cultivated the French Le Puy green lentil.

In 2006, in the gene bank of the Vavilov Institute in St. Petersburg the classic Swabian lentil varieties were accidentally discovered and brought back to Germany.

[4] At present, three genotypes of these lentils are used in the Swabian Jura, which are protected by the producers' association under the name of Alb-Leisa.