Cummin Seed Powder

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Cummin is the seed of a small umbelliferous plant native to Levant and Upper Egypt and is popularly used for food flavoring and aroma. It's flavor is pungent, powerful, sharp and slightly bitter. The seeds of the plant are used in whole or powdered form in food processing industry. It is mainly used in spicy foods.

• Indian Name: Jeera
• Botanical Name: Cumminum cyminum
• Family Name: Apiaceae
• Cultivation Zone: India, Egypt, North Africa, China, Iran, Syria and Turkey and the Americas.
  

Uses of Cummin Seeds

Cummin is widely used in traditional and herbal medicinal system for being a natural stimulant and its carminative and antimicrobial properties.

Culinary Uses: Cummin is mainly used where highly spicy food is preferred. Chiefly, it features in the Indian, Eastern, Middle Eastern, Mexican, Portuguese and Spanish cuisines. It is an ingredient of most curry powders and many savory spice mixtures, and is used in stews, grills especially lamb and chicken dishes. Spicy Mexican foods such as chile con carne, casseroled pork and enchiladas with chilli sauce is incomplete without cummin. In Europe, it flavors certain Portuguese sausages, and is used to spice cheese, especially Dutch Leyden and German Munster and burned with woods to smoke cheeses and meats. In India, its popular usage is Zeera pani, a refreshing and appetizing drink made from cummin and tamarind water. Cummin together with caraway flavors Kummel, the famous German liquor and many others. It is also used in different industries for its essential oil.

Medical Uses : Cummin is known for stimulating the appetite. It is antispasmodic, carminative, stimulant, diuretic, astringent, emmenagogic and stomachic. It improves lactation and reduces nausea in pregnancy. In East, it is used more like a traditional herbal remedy. While in the Western countries, it is used as a carminative, in veterinary medicine. It is valuable in dyspepsia diarrhea and hoarseness, and may relieve flatulence and colic. It has been proved effective in treating carpal tunnel syndrome, as well as diarrhea, indigestion, and morning sickness. Cummin also shows promise as a natural way to increase breast size. Used in a poultice, it relieves swelling of the breast or the testicles.