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    İpsala rice PDO

    İpsala Pirinci

    Turkish designation of origin for long, thick-grained white rice from the İpsala plain in Edirne province, at the meeting of the Meriç (Evros) and Ergene rivers. Registered in Turkey in 2016 and in the EU register in 2025.

    A pale polished rice grain, illustrated for İpsala rice PDO.
    İpsala rice PDO — representative grain study, polished, not to scale. Appearance alone does not establish variety or protected origin.

    What the specification says

    İpsala rice is white rice of Oryza sativa grown in the İpsala plain: glassy and matte in appearance, with long, thick grains 6.7–7.1 mm long and 2.6–3.1 mm wide, and a thousand-grain weight of 24–32 g. The dimensions on this page are the midpoints of those ranges. The specification links its darker, matte look and low chalkiness to sea air and saline clay-loam alluvial soils close to sea level, and reports an average protein content of 9.02%.

    The plain, irrigated by the Meriç and flooded in winter, became one of the province's largest farming areas after embankments were built along the river in the 1960s.

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