Quality Products

Swedish Rice pride themselves in offering only the best quality rice products available in the world today. This all starts with their sourcing strategy which is principally focused on the rice fields of Thailand. Thailand is famous for the extremely high quality and consistency of their rice varieties ranging from fine Jasmine varieties to their standard, long grain rice.

Swedish Rice achieve the highest quality packed product for the consumer as a result of many factors:

1) Proper handling and storage of the raw rice received from overseas. Each shipment is thoroughly checked and tested to ensure no problems have occurred in shipment. It is then stored in clean, hygienic, dry, cool conditions until scheduled for use.

2) Raw rice is carefully transferred and discharged into the receiving hopper just prior to the milling process commencing. Again further checks arc carried out to ensure all rice is of the type, standard and moisture content required for the particular market or customer.

3) Swedish Rice have a very precise grain cleaning process that ensures all particles other than wholesome rice grains are removed prior to the actual milling process commencing. Any stones, metallic, straw, ,grain dust or other grain residues are immediately removed ensuring a 100% raw rice is ready for the processing and grading operations.

4) The whitening; and polishing technology and operations within the Swedish Rice plant are among the best in the world The vertical abrasive machines gently remove the majority of the bran and germ layer through a series of bran cutting and attrition actions ensuring the grain shape is retained, not abraded away as is common with many abrasive type whitening These machines work under very high differential pressure and are the latest and most effective whitener available today. Water mist polishing is a must in any modern rice mill seeking to produce a high quality product.

Swedish Rice acknowledged this requirement and have installed a mufti-pass system plus inter-pass tempering facilities that is second to none in the world- By providing multi-pass water mist polishing Swedish-Rice recognized the need to remove all bran and rice flour material from each grain such that each grain achieves a high gloss signifying the total removing of fine dust particles from the grain. This means a more sustainable shelf life for the rice and the consumer need not wash the rice prior to cooking in the latest rice cooker.

5) Sizing the rice particles is vital in providing a high quality, good cooking rice to the consumer. Excessive brokens in the rice product will cause a gluggy sticky cooked rice no matter what trouble is taken during the cooking process. Swedish Rice have gone to considerable trouble to install and operate grading equipment that is designed to control and eliminate broken grains to a level that does not interfere with the cooking process. Hence Swedish Rice will always cook into perfectly formed, excellent taste and texture grains.

6) Rice grains are blended to provide the best balance of taste and texture and this is done with great care to ensure the best balance and result is achieved at all times. Samples are drawn during the milling process and these are mixed in specific ratios based on knowledge of the characteristics of individual rice varieties. Each blend is cooked and tested many times before it is agreed to pack the product for the client. Samples are retained and blending ratios logged for future reference.

7) Color sorting is a vital part of modern rice milling facilities and Swedish Rice have installed the latest and most efficient machine on the market. This process is vital in achieving and sustaining the high standards of quality required in the rice market in Europe and yet rice supplied by many importing companies has not been color sorted. Color sorting guarantees against any physical impurity remaining with the processed grains and ensures that contaminate particulate is remove if it is present. Color sorting is cutting-edge technology that is guaranteeing quality and consistency of Swedish Rice: products to the consumer that was not previously achievable.

8) Hence all rice products processed and packed by Swedish Rice arc produced to the highest standards of quality and in accordance with the desires and requirements of the consumers. Being Sweden based means that all grains are freshly milled immediately prior to packing and distribution which contributes to the freshness and balanced characteristics of Swedish Rice products.

In summary, Swedish Rice can be proud of the high quality, freshly milled rice products that are processed and packed in Sweden only days before being distributed to the supermarket shelves. These means that Sweden and Northern Europe have access to quality rice products at all times that have the taste, texture and cooking characteristics desired by the consumers of those countries.