Biscotti della Salute are a kind of diagonally cut biscuit, light, crumbly and aniseed-scented.
The ingredients are wheat flour, sugar, natural yeast, vegetable fats, salt and flavorings.the origin of this typical sweet is lost in time.
The method for its production, based on natural leavening, has always been guarded by a few people. The distribution, which remained local for a long time, was revolutionized by the railwaymen who, transporting them in large tin boxes, began to sell them in many cities of northern Italy.
After the Second World War, some new entrepreneurs from Ovada started the industrial production of
industrial production of "Salute" biscuits and, together with other typical sweets, they marketed them in a more widespread
more widespread way.
