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  • ICAR and TNAU E-Course Summarized

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  • Cardamom is……..

    Question: Cardamom is……..

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    Major spice
    Minor spice
    Aromatic spice
    Seed spice

    ✅Explanation: Cardamom is considered a major spice due to its high demand, widespread use in various cuisines (especially Indian), and significant economic value.

    🔑Key Points:

    • Cardamom:
    -It is also known for its medicinal properties.
    -Cardamom or Elettaria Cardamomum Maton is one of the most highly prized and is known as the “queen of spices”.
    -It is the seeds of the plant.
    -It is also commonly referred to as the “green cardamom” or the “true cardamom”, and belongs to the family of ginger.
    -This is one spice that is simply unbeatable in taste, flavour, and aroma.
    -Originally, cardamom grew wildly along the Western Ghats in South India.
    -This region even to this day is known as Cardamom Hills.

    🛑 🔴Additional information::
    Saffron: 
    -Saffron, golden-coloured, pungent stigmas (pollen-bearing structures) of the autumn crocus (Crocus sativus).
    -It is used as a spice to flavour foods and as a dye to colour foods and other products.
    -Saffron has a strong, exotic aroma and a bitter taste and is used to colour and flavour many Mediterranean and Asian dishes.
    -Also known as red gold.
    -The colour, flavour and aroma of saffron are mainly due to crocin, picrocrocin and safranal, respectively.
    -Due to its very high crocin content and rich aroma, the Kashmir saffron is famous worldwide
    -Saffron is cultivated chiefly in Iran but is also grown in Spain, France, Italy (on the lower spurs of the Apennines Range), and parts of India.
    Cinnamon: 
    -Cinnamon is a spice produced from the inner bark of many varieties of trees in the genus Cinnamomum.
    -It is used primarily as an aromatic condiment and flavouring ingredient in a wide variety of desserts, sweet and savoury desserts, breakfast cereals, snack foods, tea, and traditional foods.​

    • Turmeric:
    -Botanical Name- Curcuma long
    -Family- Zingiberaceae
    -Origin- South East Asia
    -Turmeric is the dried underground rhizome of the perennial herbaceous herb.
    -Curcumin is the golden-yellow pigment present in turmeric.
    -India is a leading producer and exporter of turmeric in the world.
    -In France, it is of course called "Saffron from India" but also "Souchet from India", "Souchet from Malabar", " Saffron root " or " Culcuma ".

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