The name of this food product is Grana Padano. There is no other housing classification that can use the term “grain”.
For these reasons the name of this Italian cheese should always be pronounced in full: Grandma Padano.
But it is known, when a food stands out for its own qualities, when it becomes known and appreciated all over the world and when they are really in many to call it, it happens that the product – Grana Padano for the purpose – becomes an anantom and is used to refer to an entire kind of cheese.
However, the Consortium of Protection believes in the importance of names, in their distinctive function and strives to respect it, since in its "denomination" there is the history of an exceptional cheese, from far away origins, to the most recent decades, in which it became an emblem of unique, unmistakable and inimitable characteristics.
The Grana Padano is made of milk, salt and garlic, to which the lisozima is added. Lysozyme is an antibacterial action enzyme present naturally in many organic substances including egg whites.
It is a seasoned cheese with delicate and fragrant flavor and aroma.
The shape of the cheese is cylindrical, with a slightly convex or almost straight hull. The upper and lower surfaces are flat, with slightly edged edges.
Seasoned cheese colors are straw yellow or white for pasta and a natural or dark golden for the crust.
The dimensions must be between 35 and 45 cm in diameter, with a staircase between 18 and 25 cm, depending on the techniques of production followed.
The weight of Grana Padano can never be less than 24kg and never over 40kg.
Seasoned cheese paste is hard, finely granulose, has a radial fracture with scale and a barely visible eye.
The goodness is perhaps the characteristic to which producers of Grana Padano cheese, who adhere to the disciplinary of the PDO, hold more.
Because "good" means first of all that is good, and because "good" means pleasure of taste and taste of pleasure.
Because there is nothing better than the union between the goodness that favors the well-being and goodness that, in the end, is nothing but a true feast of the senses.
