Detailed Product Description

ScientificClassification:

Kingdom:  Plantae

Division:   Magnoliophyta

Class:      Liliopsida

Subclass  Zingiberidae

Order:      Zingiberiles

Family:     Zingiberaceae

Genus:     Curcuma

Species:   C.Longa

Binomal Name: Curcuma longa

Turmeric (Curcuma longa)is a rhizomatous herbaceous perennial plant of the ginger family, which is native to tropical South Asia. Itneeds a temperature between 20 and 30 degree C. and a considerable amount ofannual rainfall to thrive.

Plants are gathered annually for their rhizomes, andre-seeded from some of those rhizomes in the following season.

It is also often misspelled (or pronounced) as .Sometimes in Asia is also known as kunyit or haldi.

Its rhizomes are boiled for several hours and then dried in hot ovens, afterwhich they are ground into a deep orange-yellow powder commonly used as a spicein curries and other South Asian cuisine, for dyeing, and to impart color to mustardcondiments. Its active ingredient is and it has an earthy, bitter, peppery flavor and has a mustardy smell.

Sangli isa town in the southern part of the state of Indiais the largest and most important trading centre for turmeric in or perhaps in theentire world^.

Our Turmeric Fingers are available in dry and is of Myanmar origin.

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Partly quoted from Wikipedia about the Turmeric.