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Icelanders are very proud of the quality of their lamb meat, which they often claim is more of a game than farmed animals. This, of course, has to do with the fact that sheep in Iceland spend most of the year roaming the hills of the Icelandic wilderness, feeding on whatever vegetation they can find such as heath etc.
Research has indicated that lambs, fed and raised under disparate circumstances differ in taste. Two Icelandic farmers now want to try and raise their sheep on wild angelica to find out if the outcome is a meat with a distinct angelica flavour that might appeal to today´s increasingly health conscious customers. Some varieties of angelica are grown as a flavoring agent and for their medicinal properties.
The most notable of these is Garden Angelica (A. archangelica) which is commonly known simply as angelica. Natives of Lapland use the fleshy roots as food and the stalks as medicine. The role of Matís in this interesting project will be to study the effects og the angelica on the taste, texture and other properties of the meat.
