Description :
Turmeric powder is a bright yellow spice powder made from dried turmeric rhizomes. While its slightly peppery and warm flavour; vibrant colour; and preservative properties make it a great culinary ingredient, the presence of 'curcumin' makes is suitable for cosmetic and medicinal purposes too.
Turmeric is a fruit that resembles "Saffron” noted Marco Polo. Its dried root gives flavour and a golden yellow colour to many Indian dishes. Turmeric Powder is manufactured from one of the finest quality ‘spotless’ Turmeric from select Indian farms, twice polished to enhance taste, colour and flavour.
Haldi powder has many benefits. Apart from adding a rich, gold colour to the food. Turmeric is a yellow spice powder which is made from dry turmeric. Apart from using it in food, turmeric powder is consumed in milk as well. Haldi milk is best to boost immunity. You can use turmeric powder for home-based beauty treatments also.
In India, turmeric has been known and appreciated for more than 4000 years where it is used in cooking, during religious ceremonies, and in many home remedies. It grows in Southeast Asia where people prefer to cook it fresh, especially in Thai cuisine. In Thailand, it is grated and cooked in soup, fried food, snack, and dessert. In eastern Indonesia, it is used to prepare stews and curries.
Its properties are universally recognized, so much so that its rhizome is marketed all over the world and it is now cultivated in India, Africa, tropical Asia, Jamaica, and the West Indies.
Its high nutritional value is partly due to its content of curcumin, a very powerful active ingredient. Many other active molecules participate in the virtues and properties of this extraordinary spice. In cooking, the rhizome (underground part of the plant) is dried and then reduced to powder to form a spice.