Vialone Nano
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Vialone Nano is an Italian semifino (medium-grain) rice variety. It is typical of the flat, rice-growing areas of the southern province of Verona (Bassa Veronese), in Veneto. Vialone Nano is a cultivar of the Japonica group of varieties of Oryza sativa.
Culinary uses
Riso Nano Vialone Veronese IGP
Vialone Nano rice has been grown in Italy since 1937.{{cite web |url=http://www.agrodolce.it/2014/08/01/riso-le-tipologie-utilizzarlo-cucina/ |title=Tipi di riso, varietà e usi |newspaper=Agrodolce.it |date=1 August 2014|author=Lorella Fabris|language=it|access-date= 4 July 2017}} It was developed by crossing Vialone rice with a variety called Nano because of the plant's low height.{{cite web |url=http://www.stoppato1887.com/riso.html |title=Il riso del nostro territorio|trans-title=The rice of our territory |website=Stoppato1887.com |language=it|access-date= 4 July 2017}}
In 1996 Veronese Vialone Nano rice was given the protected geographical indication (IGP), under the name of Riso Nano Vialone Veronese IGP.{{Cite web |title=Consorzio di Tutela della I.G.P. Riso Nano Vialone Veronese |url=https://www.risovialonenanoveronese.it/eng/ |website=Consorzio di Tutela della I.G.P. Riso Nano Vialone Veronese}}
The processed grain should be of medium size, round in shape and semi-long with pronounced tooth and rounded section. It should appear white in color and display an extended pearlescent core.
{{citation |title=Disciplinare di produzione e lavorazione del Riso Nano Vialone Veronese |date=2010-09-25 |journal=Gazzetta Ufficiale della Repubblica Italiana, Serie Generale |issue=225 |trans-title=Procedural guidelines for the production and processing of Riso Nano Vialone Veronese |url=http://www.gazzettaufficiale.it/eli/id/2010/09/25/10A11263/sg |access-date=13 July 2014 |at=p. 18, All. 1, art. 1 |language=it}}.
=Area of production=
Cultivation and processing of Nano Vialone Veronese IGP is conducted exclusively in the territory of the following 24 municipalities, all within the Provincia di Verona:
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- Bovolone
- Buttapietra
- Casaleone
- Cerea
- Concamarise
- Erbè
- Gazzo Veronese
- Isola della Scala
- Isola Rizza
- Mozzecane
- Nogara
- Nogarole Rocca
- Oppeano
- Palù
- Povegliano Veronese
- Ronco all'Adige
- Roverchiara
- Salizzole
- Sanguinetto
- San Pietro di Morubio
- Sorgà
- Trevenzuolo
- Vigasio
- Zevio
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See also
References
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