Oryza

Oryza, born in 1999, associated of Alce Nero Mielizia group, cultivates in Piemonte 550 hectares of land under organic farming regulations, obtaining valuable varieties of rice like Baldo, Ribe, Carnaroli, Vialone Nano, Arborio, Originario.

One of the most important production is Nebbione, a special variety of original rice which, just after the crop, is ageing for 12 months. During this long maturity the rice looses humidity and improves organolepticals characteristics, becomes more "resistant" while cooking, it does not loose starch and it is very good for “risotti”.

Rice

The production and working process

After the crop the rice is dried at 50 degrees and then cooled to reduce the water content.
The rice grain is wrapped by an hard and rough shell which is mechanically kep off.

For the white rice we act by a second degree process, it means less aggressive process which permits to maintain contents of proteins, lipids and vitamins. The ‘whitening’ took off the internal cuticle, the germ and other fragments are totally removed.

Last operation is the brushing to eliminate flours that come from previous process.
Before conditioning the rice is controlled by an optical selection machine to take off the grains which show colour or shape defects in order to offer to the consumer an high quality product.

Capacity: 60,000 q/year

The controls

The rice factory executes all the analytical controls during all the process to guarantee product healthy and quality.

The production implanation has a management system certified UNI EN ISO 9001: 2000 and environment system certified under EC rule 761/2001.