Aging renders starch, proteins and vitamins less water-soluble, improving the consistency of the grains and enabling them to absorb more cooking liquid.
Acquerello is the only rice in the world enriched with its germ - the vital part of the brown rice where vitamins and micro-elements are concentrated. If the germ was planted it would grow into a new plant.
Product of Italy
Acquerello is the ultimate Carnaroli Superfine rice, produced and packed by the Rondolino family on the Tenuta Torrone della Colombara Estate, in the heart of Piedmont's Vercelli province. Acquerello's unique mathods of production are the result of a combination of extensive research, family experience and the union of tradition and innovation. After harvesting, Acquerello undergoes an aging process; then is slowly refined with a special machine called the helix and finally enriched with its own germ by a patented process.