SPICES 
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   CUMIN SEEDS

Cumin seeds are the seeds of cuminum cyminum, which belongs to the parsley family. It is pale green in color and elliptical in shape with deep furrows. Cumin seeds has a penetrating flavour and aroma.

Description
Cumin is the dried, white fruit with greyish brown colour of a small slender annual herb. The surface of the fruit has 5 primary ridges, alternatively has 4 less distinct secondary ridges bearing numerous short hairs. The plant is 15 to 50 cm high. The aromatic seed like fruit is elongated, ovoid, 3 to 6 mm long, slightly bitter and has a warm flavour. The flowers are white or rose coloured in small umbels.

Origin and Distribution
Cumin is indigenous to Northern Egypt, Syria, the Mediterranean region, Iran and India. It is also cultivated in Mexico, China, Sicily and Malta. Cumin is a tropical plant and is cultivated as a rabi crop in areas where atmospheric humidity during February-March is low.
 
Uses
Cumin seed have an aromatic odour and bitter taste. It is used as a condiment, and is an ingredient in curry powders, seasonings of breads, cakes and cheese. It is employed in native dishes of Central and South America. In medicine, it is used as a stimulant, carminative, stomachic and astringent. Cumin seed oil is used in perfumery and for flavouring liqueurs and cordials.
Botanical name Family name Commercial part
Cuminum cyminum L. Apiaceae Fruit


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    FENNEL SEEDS

Fennel Seeds (Sauf) are very effective for digestive problems. These seeds can be chewed upon or had as a tea decoction for beneficial effects upon the stomach. In India, these are routinely chewed upon after meals to aid in digestion after a rich meal while acting as a herbal mouth freshener.

Fennel seeds often provide quick and effective relief from many digestive disorders. They help to overcome gas, cramps, acid indigestion, and many other digestive tract maladies.

Fennel is a perennial, pleasant-smelling herb with yellow flowers. It is native to the Mediterranean, but is now found throughout the world. Dried fennel seeds are often used in cooking as an anise-flavored spice. But don’t confuse fennel with anise; though they look and taste similar, they are not the same. Fennel’s dried ripe seeds and oil are used to make medicine.

Fennel is used for various digestive problems including heartburn, intestinal gas,bloating, loss of appetite, and colic in infants.It is also used for upper respiratory tract infections,coughs, bronchitis, cholera, backache, bedwetting, and visual problems.

Some women use fennel for increasing the flow of breast milk, promoting menstruation, easing the birthing process, and increasing sex drive.

Fennel powder is used as a poultice for snakebites.

In foods and beverages, fennel oil is used as a flavoring agent.

In other manufacturing processes, fennel oil is used as a flavoring agent in certain laxatives, and as a fragrance component in soaps and cosmetics.

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   RED CHILLIES


We are one of the leading supplier of fine quality red chilly, which is famous for its aroma and rich red colour. The red chilly brought in our firm is kept in appropriate conditions within our warehouse so as to maintain its freshness, crispiness and its distinct smell. Chosen from the best of farms located in selected regions. We are offering different kind of chilly grounded / powder, chilly flakes (Kibbled-Pizza Cut) in assorted heat value (Schouville) & color index (Asta).

We offer all Indian varieties of red chillies like 334, S-4, S7(Bird Eye & Semibird Eye), S9 (Round-Mundu). Also known as red pepper with different schouville values & Asta colour. Red chillies are used in different cuisines to make the food more delicious and tasty.

Chilli is the dried ripe fruit of the genus Capsicum. Capsicum annum is an annual sub –shrub, the flowers of which are borne singly and fruits usually pendent, which provide red peppers, cayenne, paprika and chillies and sweet pepper (bell pepper) a mild form with large inflated fruits.

Capsicum frutescence is a perennial chilly with small sized pods which are highly pungent. It is commonly known as ‘bird chilly’ and ‘Tabasco’. 

Botanical name Family name Commercial part
Capsicum annum L.,
Capsicum frutescens L.
Solanaceae Green as well as ripe and dried pod (fruit)


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   CORIANDER SEEDS

Among one of the first spices used by mankind, coriander seeds, is the seed of coriandrum sativum, which belongs to the parsley family. The coriander seeds are almost oval in shape and greenish to yellowish in color.

It is a fragrant spice, with a mild, distinctive taste. It is widely used as a condiment in foods, beverages, marinades, desserts and sweet pastries and American cigarettes. It is also valued for its medicinal properties.

This fragrant spice is known for its medicinal properties and used as a condiments in curries; as fresh leaves for garnishing of curries, and in chutney as an appetiser.

Origin and Distribution
It is a native of Mediterranean and commercially produced in India, Morocco, Russia, East European countries, France, Central America, Mexico, and USA. Coriander is a tropical crop and can be successfully cultivated as a rabi season crop in an area free from severe frost during February when the crop flowers and sets its seeds




Botanical name
Family name Commercial part
Coriandrum sativam L. Apiaceae Leaf and seed


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   FENUGREEK SEEDS

Fenugreek seed whole consist of dried ripe seed of trigonella foenumgraecum. The colour is carramel to light brownish-yellow. Odour and taste are typical, a bit of cellery and bitter. Free from foregn odour and taste, such as mustiness or rancidity . Fenugreek has a strong, pleasant and quite peculiar odour.  

Fenugreek seed is the ripe fruit of an annual herb. This robust herb has light green leaves, is 30-60 cm tall and produces slender, beaked pods, 10-15 cm long, each pod contains 10-20 small hard yellowish brown seeds, which are smooth and oblong, about 3mm long.

Origin and Distribution
Fenugreek is a native of South Eastern Europe and West Asia, now cultivated in India, Argentina, Egypt and Mediterranean countries (Southern France, Morocco and Lebanon). In India it is grown extensively in Rajasthan, Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh, Maharashtra and Punjab.It is a cold season crop and is fairly tolerant to frost and very low temperature. It is best suited to tracts of moderate to low rainfall and is sown in all types of soil but perform better in loam and clayey loam with proper drainage. It can also be grown on black cotton soils.



Botanical name
Family name
Commercial part
Trigonella foenum-graecum L.
Fabaceae
Fruit


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   DILL SEEDS

Dill is the dried fruit of the herb anethum graveolens, which belongs to the parsley family. Dill seeds are oval-shaped, soft and fluffy and has a pungent and aromatic flavor. Dill seeds have been used since ancient times.

Description
Dill is a herbaceous annual with pinnately divided leaves. The ripe, light brown seeds emit an aromatic odour. The leaves have pleasant aromatic odour and warm taste. Both seeds and leaves are valued as spice. 

Origin and Distribution
European Dill (Anetheum graveolens) is indigenous to Europe and is cultivated in England, Germany, Romania, Turkey, USA and Russia. The Indian dill (Anetheum sowa), a native of Northern India is bolder than the European dill. It is cultivated as a cold weather crop in many parts of India. 





Botanical name Family name Commercial part
Anethum graveoluns L. Apiaceae Fruit


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    BLACK PEPPER

We are exporting high quality Black pepper in bulk quality as per client requirements. The Black pepper that we export is hygienically packaged and is free from impurities. Our customers can avail Black pepper from us in packs of different quantities as per their requirements.

Black Pepper is the dried mature berries of Piper Nigrum grown in South India, garbled, dark brown to dark black in colour nearly globular, with a wrinkled surface.

Light berry contents to be tested by floatation method in alcohol or methylated spirit of 0.80 to 0.82 specific gravity at room temperature (around 25°C).







Botanical name Family name
Piper nigrum Linn Piperaceae


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    TURMERIC


The whole turmeric is a tuberous rhizome, with a rough, segmented skin. The rhizome is yellowish-brown with a dull orange interior that looks bright yellow when powdered. Our high quality turmeric acts as a mild digestive, being aromatic, a stimulant and a carminative. An ointment base on the spice is used as an antiseptic, its water is used as a cosmetic applied to impart a golden glow to the complexion. We are specialized in turmeric of assorted varieties of curcumin value.

Turmeric, The primary rhizomes, round in shape are called 'bulbs', while the thin, long secondary rhizomes are 'fingers'. It has a characterized fragrance, peppery aroma & it’s slightly bitter in taste with a musky flavor.

Origin and Distribution
It is a native of India. Apart from India, it is cultivated in Pakistan, Malaysia, Myanmar, Vietnam, Thailand, Philippines, Japan, Korea, China, Sri Lanka, Nepal, East & West Africa, South Pacific Islands, Malagasy, Caribbean Islands and Central America. In India, it is cultivated in the States of Andhra Pradesh, Maharashtra, Orissa, Tamil Nadu, Karnataka and Kerala.

Turmeric is a tropical crop cultivated from sea level to 1200 meter MSL. It grows in light black, black clayey loams and red soils in irrigated and rainfed conditions. The crop cannot stand water logging or alkalinity

Botanical name

Family name
Commercial part
Curcuma longa L.
Zingiberaceae
Rhizome or underground stem