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• Date of review: 25/05/2010
• Category: Food Products

Arriving in June.. Carnaroli and Boldo rice varieties from the world renowned Cascina Veneria Estate.

Cascina Veneria is the only important Italian rice farm with a fully integrated production process. That includes the cultivation of several varieties of rice, the harvesting, the processing, the packaging as well as the marketing. The result is high quality rice that keeps all the nutritious elements and is not stressed by whitening treatments.

So what makes one rice superior to another in quality? For one thing, it must be carefully milled to separate out the indigestible parts of the grain, as well as dirt and debris, damaged and broken grains. By law up to 5% by weight can be broken grains, and the rice still be sold as premium quality, but due to lack of controls and oversight , the actual amount may reach 7-8% in many commercial varieties.
Cascina Veneria imposes an upper tolerance of 3% of broken grains for its product. Also, due to special secondary milling techniques, every grain is certain to be perfectly cleaned, hulled and uniform (an optical separator removes individual grains of discolored and damaged rice to be sold for animal feed, along with the husks, bran and other discarded parts of the grain). After milling, the rice is held in silos where it is treated with carbon dioxide for 148 hours to insure that no pests will infest the finished product. It is then bagged in brown paper sacks for sale. No plastic is used in the packaging as it could affect the aroma of the rice.