Natural spices
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Catalog
Star anise
Quite a popular spice. It has a distinctive, rich aroma. This plant grows in China, Japan, South Korea and Abkhazia.
Star anise is not 100% whole. The amount of scrap is 20-30%.
Star anise contains a large number of essential oils and useful substances: safol, phenol anethole, cineole, salts, zinc, magnesium, potassium, phosphorus, copper, manganese, B vitamins, vitamin C.
Useful properties of star anise
- Useful for nursing mothers, as it helps to increase the amount of milk.
- Helps to deal with bad breath.
- Star anise is a seasoning that is used to strengthen the body, stabilize the nervous system, and increase immunity.
- Useful for coughing, helps to restore a lost or hoarse voice, promotes expectoration.
- Reduces heart rate.
- A decoction of star anise is used to treat convulsions, fevers.
Cinnamon Sticks
Cinnamon (cassia) is a spice that is made from the dried bark of the cinnamon plant that grows in Indonesia. Cinnamon trees reach a height of 10 to 15 meters.
The spice is sold in the form of pieces of bark, rolled into a tube or ground.
Indonesian cinnamon has a sweet and delicate aroma, which is why it is often used in cooking and confectionery. Various cupcakes, pies, gingerbread, cakes, jams, etc. rarely do without the addition of cinnamon.
The enchanting aroma of this spice goes well with coffee, chocolate, as well as apples and pears.
Cinnamon is used to flavor various marinades, sauces, compotes, cottage cheese dishes.
Cinnamon has very beneficial properties
This spice allows you to control the level of glucose in the blood; improves digestion, speeds up metabolism, helps fight excess weight; improves blood circulation, saturates it with oxygen; has anti-inflammatory action; cinnamon helps eliminate bad breath and improves gum health; spice stimulates human cognitive abilities and is an excellent tonic. Useful properties of cinnamon are used in the treatment of various ailments, as well as for the treatment of coughs. It is consumed as a tea, which helps relieve coughs. One of the very important properties of cinnamon is its ability to prevent Alzheimer's disease. The sweet aroma of cinnamon repels such guests of our house as mosquitoes, flies, ants, insects.
Ground Ginger
Ginger is a perennial plant with a developed root. It has a rather pungent taste and a pungent smell. The spice first appeared in India, but later it was grown on the islands of Barbados and Jamaica, in Nigeria, Brazil, and China.
Ginger contains proteins, fats, carbohydrates, ash, dietary fiber, B vitamins, folic acid, ascorbic acid, calcium, magnesium, potassium, iron, phosphorus, manganese, copper, zinc.
Ginger is mainly used in cooking, medicine, cosmetics and even for making alcohol.
Useful properties of ground ginger
- The spice is great for digestion. It promotes the production of gastric juice, eliminates belching. Food with the addition of ginger is easily digestible.
- It is especially helpful in the treatment of colds, stimulates expectoration, and helps in the fight against bacteria.
- Ginger has a calming effect.
- It is used to strengthen the immune system.
- The spice fights parasites well, so it is used in the fight against worms.
- Ground ginger is a seasoning that has a very beneficial effect on blood vessels, cleanses and strengthens them, and also lowers blood cholesterol levels.
- The spice is used to treat certain skin conditions.
- It is recommended to use ginger for diarrhea, flatulence, diseases of the kidneys, gallbladder.
- The spice reduces blood pressure, strengthens memory, serves as an excellent prophylactic against thrombosis.
- Ground ginger is very effective for weight loss.
Mushroom spice mix
Mushrooms are a very nutritious, tasty, fragrant, and self-sufficient product. They can be fried, salted, marinated, boiled, baked, stewed. And to make a mushroom dish even tastier, you need to know the best mushroom seasonings.
Ingredients
Muer mushroom, ground fenugreek, ground mustard, edible salt, chopped onion, dried parsley, dried celery, ground onion, ground coriander.
Spice mix for meat
Meat dishes can be varied not only due to the methods of cooking meat, but also by changing the composition of the spices added to them. The usual set of seasonings that we use is quite narrow: pepper, parsley, dill, garlic. Meanwhile, the variety of existing spices allows the hostess to make food more tasty and healthy. The same meat cooked with different seasonings will taste significantly different. When cooking hot as a result of frying, boiling, stewing, "Spice mix for meat" is added 1 minute before the end or in the finished dish. If other processing is meant, for example, cold smoking, spices are introduced at the beginning. Spices can be put in minced meat, prefabricated meat fillings, offal.
Ingredients
Celery root, coriander grain, chopped red paprika, caraway seeds, dill seeds, coarsely ground black pepper, crushed allspice, white mustard, ground coriander, ground paprika, dried parsley, savory, crushed rosemary, granulated garlic. Without salt.