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Italian term or phrase:riso semi integrale
English translation:light brown rice
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07:53 Dec 29, 2010
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Food & Dairy
Italian term or phrase: riso semi integrale
sto traducendo una dieta vegana, ma non sono sicura se la traduzione corretta sia semi-brown rice.

Grazie
babi
Local time: 12:03
light brown rice
Explanation:
another option

LIGHT BROWN RICE
In light brown rice, almost 50% of the bran is removed, whereas with brown rice, the bran layers are left intact. Brown rice is a whole grain, light brown rice is not, even though it is sometimes erroneously referred to as such. However, you will not find the Whole Grain Council’s whole grain stamp on any light brown rice product. Light brown rice was created to provide a faster cooking time—20 minutes instead of the 45 minutes for regular brown rice—by polishing off the bran layers, the rice cooks more quickly. Also, some people don’t like the nutty flavor of brown rice but want an alternative to white rice. Light brown rice also has more fiber than white rice, although less than regular brown rice. The serving sizes are the same.

Part 2 of a 6-part article all about rice, including a rice glossary of the many types of rice and the history of rice. THE NIBBLE, Great Food Finds, ...
www.thenibble.com/reviews/Main/rice/rice-glossary2.asp - Cached




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as Phil says above, this gets a lot of ghits 1,450,000

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Product Reviews / Main Nibbles / Vegetables
RiceSelect Organic Brown Rice Mixes
Side Dishes Of Tasty, Organic Brown Rice




CAPSULE REPORT: The USDA recommends three servings of whole grains daily. An easy way to get them is by serving brown rice at dinner. RiceSelect has six flavored rice mixes, based on a strain of basmati called Texmati (it’s grown in Texas). There are three 100% whole grain brown rice mixes, which do qualify for your daily allocation, and three light brown rice mixes that are more refined and don’t—but are still more nutritious than white rice. The mixes simply require water, butter and simmering for 20 minutes or more. The line is USDA-certified organic and certified kosher. The company makes a standard (non-organic) line of rice mixes along with plain brown or white organic rice, specialty rices, couscous and orzo.

Overview
Organic Rice Mix Flavors
Buy Online
Rice Glossary
Basmati, the rice variety used in India and by many fine chefs in the U.S., is a longer, more elegant grain that stays firm and separates after cooking—no clumpy rice. The makers of RiceSelect were the first to grow basmati rice successfully in the U.S., along the Texas Gulf Coast. They developed a portfolio of gourmet rice varieties, and then began to grow organic rice, available in brown as well as and white. You can purchase them in the company’s signature packaging (see photo at right) at fine food stores.

Next, to help busy people—or those who just don’t like to spend much time in the kitchen—the company developed what on their website is called “side dishes,” and we’ll call rice mixes. After all, if you’re a vegetarian, brown rice can be more of a main event than a side.

Rice Mix Flavors
While the flavor variations aren’t enormous, there’s enough differentiation among the rices to provide variety, if you wanted to have them several times a week.


Light Brown Rice Mixes

A word about light brown rice mixes: They taste good, but don’t give you the whole-grain nutrition that standard brown rice supplies. That’s because, while the endosperm is not fully milled, it’s partially milled. So these rices don’t get the Whole Grain Council’s 100% Whole Grain stamp, which you’ll see on the front of the box in the Brown Rice Mixes section...

What you do get is a shorter cooking time (half, in fact—20 minutes), and perhaps more familiarity from family members, especially young ’uns, who may not care for regular brown rice but will enjoy the soft sweetness of the light brown variety. All of the mixes look attractive, with abundant flecks of herbs throughout.



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Texmati Light Brown Rice is the quicker-cooking alternative to traditional brown rice. It cooks like white rice, yet tastes like brown and appeals to the ...
www.riceselect.com/texmati.aspx - Cached

26 Aug 2010 ... There are 160 calories in 1 serving of RiceSelect Texmati Light Brown Rice. Get full nutrition facts for other RiceSelect products and all ...
www.fatsecret.com/calories.../riceselect/texmati-light-brow... - Cached
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gallagy2
Ireland
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Grazie!
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Summary of answers provided
4 +4light brown ricegallagy2
4 +2semi whole grain rice
James (Jim) Davis
4 +1partly/partilally/half/semi milled (brown) riceShera Lyn Parpia
4half-polished rice
Juliet Halewood
4semi-integral rice
Michael Korovkin
4semi-organic rice
Tom in London
Summary of reference entries provided
Semi-brown ricecasper

  

Answers


47 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
semi-organic rice


Explanation:
In other words, rice grown in soil and with nutrients that are not entirely organic but are on the way to becoming fully organic. Quote:

"Semi-Organic Fertilizers are [...] in pellet or granule form and [..] consist of an organic base mixed with inorganic nutrients. [...] They [...] help to improve the aeration of the soil, [because] the promotion of micro-organisms helps to encourage earth worm activity.

http://tinyurl.com/3346jln

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also see "Semi Organic Rice Farming In Central Java"

http://www.searca.org/web/e_library/scholars-thesis/abstract...
http://tinyurl.com/3ykh4s6

Tom in London
United Kingdom
Local time: 11:03
Works in field
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 48

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Wendy Streitparth
10 mins
  -> thank you Wendy

neutral  Valeria Sciarrillo: I don't know... "Integrale" can refer to both organic and regular farming. In fact, it's advisable to choose *organic* whole grains, because industrial ones might have pesticides in the bran, which is not so healthy.
2 hrs

disagree  philgoddard: Integrale doesn't mean organic. It's about how much of the hull has been removed.
7 hrs
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5 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +2
semi whole grain rice


Explanation:
A bit strange "semi". I suppose it is really just brown rice .

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&safe=off&q="semi whole gr...

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&safe=off&q="whole grain r...
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&safe=off&q="semi whole gr...

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Whole grain rice, is usually the same as brown rice. It has the chaff removed, because it is inedible, but the bran and the germ of the seed remain. Semi whole grain rice is probably "rice with germ" (but without bran) on the wiki page.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rice


Generally people who eat whole grain or brown rice prefer organic food, but whole grain rice can be grown with or without chemical fertilisers and pesticides. Indians always ate, brown or whole grain rice before the British colonised it.

James (Jim) Davis
Italy
Local time: 12:03
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 18

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Maria Sometti: right, i dont think we should call it organic, like in the response below. everything natural is organic.
1 hr

agree  Ernestine Shargool
2 hrs

neutral  philgoddard: This is technically correct, but it gets almost no Google hits, which is why I think Gallagy's answer is correct.
8 hrs
  -> I think you are right on this one. I'll leave it up anyway.
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6 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
semi-integral rice


Explanation:
or, the opposite, which is, of course, the same: "partially threshed/refined rice"

Michael Korovkin
Local time: 12:03
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish, Native in RussianRussian
PRO pts in category: 10
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20 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +1
partly/partilally/half/semi milled (brown) rice


Explanation:
It can be said in several ways. Maybe semi-milled is closest to your original.

see
http://www.mindbranch.com/listing/product/R307-105467.html
http://www.alibaba.com/product-free/212404424/Semi_Milled_Ri...
http://www.bharatbook.com/detail.asp?id=146199&rt=The-World-...
http://www.foodsubs.com/Rice.html

also:

Undoubtedly, brown rice is significantly better for you than milled rice, but many people still prefer the lighter taste of white rice.
http://www.wisegeek.com/what-is-milled-rice.htm

Brown rice (or "hulled rice") is unmilled or partly milled rice, a kind of whole, natural grain.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brown_rice

People in Japan eat rice virtually every day and rice -- especially the brown and only partially "polished" varieties -
...
Located between the white center of the grain and the brown fibrous outer layer, this sub-layer of rice is loaded with oligosaccharides (complex carbohydrates known to benefit the digestive system) and dietary fibers. But when brown rice is polished to turn it into white rice, this subaleurone layer is ripped off, taking away some of the nutrients. However, the subaleurone layer is preserved not only in brown rice but also in two types of rice popular in Japan -- half-milled (Haigamai) rice or incompletely-milled (Kinmemai) rice.
http://www.naturalnews.com/028705_brown_rice_high_blood_pres...

The objective of commercial rice milling is to reduce mechanical stresses and heat buildup in the grain, thereby minimizing grain breakage and producing uniformly polished grain.
http://www.knowledgebank.irri.org/rkb/index.php/rice-milling...


Shera Lyn Parpia
Italy
Local time: 12:03
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 68

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Juliet Halewood
3 hrs
  -> Thanks!
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1 day5 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
half-polished rice


Explanation:
another alternative

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or semi-polished rice

Juliet Halewood
Local time: 12:03
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Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
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6 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +4
light brown rice


Explanation:
another option

LIGHT BROWN RICE
In light brown rice, almost 50% of the bran is removed, whereas with brown rice, the bran layers are left intact. Brown rice is a whole grain, light brown rice is not, even though it is sometimes erroneously referred to as such. However, you will not find the Whole Grain Council’s whole grain stamp on any light brown rice product. Light brown rice was created to provide a faster cooking time—20 minutes instead of the 45 minutes for regular brown rice—by polishing off the bran layers, the rice cooks more quickly. Also, some people don’t like the nutty flavor of brown rice but want an alternative to white rice. Light brown rice also has more fiber than white rice, although less than regular brown rice. The serving sizes are the same.

Part 2 of a 6-part article all about rice, including a rice glossary of the many types of rice and the history of rice. THE NIBBLE, Great Food Finds, ...
www.thenibble.com/reviews/Main/rice/rice-glossary2.asp - Cached




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Note added at 1 day8 hrs (2010-12-30 16:09:47 GMT)
--------------------------------------------------

as Phil says above, this gets a lot of ghits 1,450,000

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Note added at 2 days12 hrs (2010-12-31 20:28:22 GMT)
--------------------------------------------------

Product Reviews / Main Nibbles / Vegetables
RiceSelect Organic Brown Rice Mixes
Side Dishes Of Tasty, Organic Brown Rice




CAPSULE REPORT: The USDA recommends three servings of whole grains daily. An easy way to get them is by serving brown rice at dinner. RiceSelect has six flavored rice mixes, based on a strain of basmati called Texmati (it’s grown in Texas). There are three 100% whole grain brown rice mixes, which do qualify for your daily allocation, and three light brown rice mixes that are more refined and don’t—but are still more nutritious than white rice. The mixes simply require water, butter and simmering for 20 minutes or more. The line is USDA-certified organic and certified kosher. The company makes a standard (non-organic) line of rice mixes along with plain brown or white organic rice, specialty rices, couscous and orzo.

Overview
Organic Rice Mix Flavors
Buy Online
Rice Glossary
Basmati, the rice variety used in India and by many fine chefs in the U.S., is a longer, more elegant grain that stays firm and separates after cooking—no clumpy rice. The makers of RiceSelect were the first to grow basmati rice successfully in the U.S., along the Texas Gulf Coast. They developed a portfolio of gourmet rice varieties, and then began to grow organic rice, available in brown as well as and white. You can purchase them in the company’s signature packaging (see photo at right) at fine food stores.

Next, to help busy people—or those who just don’t like to spend much time in the kitchen—the company developed what on their website is called “side dishes,” and we’ll call rice mixes. After all, if you’re a vegetarian, brown rice can be more of a main event than a side.

Rice Mix Flavors
While the flavor variations aren’t enormous, there’s enough differentiation among the rices to provide variety, if you wanted to have them several times a week.


Light Brown Rice Mixes

A word about light brown rice mixes: They taste good, but don’t give you the whole-grain nutrition that standard brown rice supplies. That’s because, while the endosperm is not fully milled, it’s partially milled. So these rices don’t get the Whole Grain Council’s 100% Whole Grain stamp, which you’ll see on the front of the box in the Brown Rice Mixes section...

What you do get is a shorter cooking time (half, in fact—20 minutes), and perhaps more familiarity from family members, especially young ’uns, who may not care for regular brown rice but will enjoy the soft sweetness of the light brown variety. All of the mixes look attractive, with abundant flecks of herbs throughout.



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Note added at 2 days12 hrs (2010-12-31 20:36:33 GMT)
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Texmati Light Brown Rice is the quicker-cooking alternative to traditional brown rice. It cooks like white rice, yet tastes like brown and appeals to the ...
www.riceselect.com/texmati.aspx - Cached

26 Aug 2010 ... There are 160 calories in 1 serving of RiceSelect Texmati Light Brown Rice. Get full nutrition facts for other RiceSelect products and all ...
www.fatsecret.com/calories.../riceselect/texmati-light-brow... - Cached


Example sentence(s):
  • Part 2 of a 6-part article all about rice, including a rice glossary of the many types of rice and the history of rice. THE NIBBLE, Great Food Finds, ...
gallagy2
Ireland
Works in field
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 3
Grading comment
Grazie!

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  philgoddard
2 hrs
  -> thanks Phil

agree  James (Jim) Davis
2 hrs
  -> many thanks Jim

agree  Joel Schaefer
4 hrs
  -> Many thanks Joel :-)

agree  Shera Lyn Parpia: it does get a lot of ghits, however if you look at them carefully, you will see that they are part of terms such as light brown rice bread/loaf/protein shake etc. referring often to the colour of the end product.
1 day13 hrs
  -> thanks, yes, this light brown rice is a relatively new process to speeden up cooking times while keeping nutrients i.e half the bran is kept. Happy New Year:-)
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Reference comments


2 hrs
Reference: Semi-brown rice

Reference information:
Semi-brown rice seems to be a menu setting on a rice cooker
http://www.zojirushi.com/ourproducts/how_and_chart/howtochos...

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Brown Rice
Rice which has the chaff removed.

Semi-Brown Rice 30%
Rice which has had about 30% of the Bran and Germ removed.


Semi-Brown Rice 50%
Rice which has had about 50% of the Bran and Germ removed.

Semi-Brown Rice 70%
Rice which has had about 70% of the Bran and Germ removed.

http://www.cutleryandmore.com/images/zojirushi/ns_lac05.pdf



Here is the HTML version of the above PDF file
http://shortify.com/11675

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