All those spices and herbs in your spice rack can do more than provide calorie-free, natural flavorings to enhance and make food delicious. They're also an incredible source of antioxidants and help rev up your metabolism and improve your health at the same time.

Suzanne Somers

DIFFERENT VARIETY AND QUALITY OF OIL SEEDS AVAILABLE AT PHINIX INTERNATIONAL

Oil seeds and oil seed meals may be used to provide nutrients in support of growth and milk synthesis. When using heat treated oil seeds or oil seed meals, it is important to ensure that proper heat treatment was applied to provide optimal protection of protein from ruminal protein degradation and inactivation of naturally occurring enzymes that interfere with digestion.

SEASONINGS AND BLENDS

Spices were among the most demanded and expensive products available in Europe in the Middle Ages,the most common being black pepper, cinnamon (and the cheaper alternative cassia), cumin, nutmeg, ginger and cloves. Given medieval medicine's main theory of humorism, spices and herbs were indispensable to balance "humors" in food, a daily basis for good health at a time of recurrent pandemics.

The main difference between lentils and pulses is that lentils are a type of pulses with lens-shaped seeds whereas pulses are the edible seeds of legumes. ... while pulses also include dried peas, chickpeas, and dried beans. Lentils and pulses are two types of edible seeds which grow inside pods.

Spice oleoresins are a liquid, semi-solid or solid residue obtained by solvent extraction and possessing the full character of natural spices. The main components of an oleoresin include essential oils, fixed oils, pigments, pungent constituents and natural antioxidants.

Jaggery and confectionery are the classical decentralized cane sweets prepared and used by many people all over the world. Both are playing an overriding role in the sugar economy by reaching the demands of export trade. Traditionally, India has been producing jaggery and confectionery for export revenues and is the foremost leading countries in exporting jaggery and confectionery since the ancient period.

Tamarind is a tree. Its partially dried fruit is used to make medicine. People use tamarind for dry eye. ... In foods and beverages, tamarind is used as flavoring. It is also widely used in Asian cooking for chutneys and curries.

A healthy intake of raisins can help relieve constipation, keep the bowel movements smooth and regular as well as help eliminate the toxins and waste products from our body. The potassium and magnesium levels in raisins help the body flush out toxins and harmful fluids from the body.

• Whole grain products are a source of fiber, vitamins and minerals.

• Whole grains can lower your risk of some diseases.

• One quarter of each of your child’s meals or snacks should be whole grains.

Since ages millets were commonly used to feed birds and animals, until the health benefits of theses superfoods were known to the world. However, in various parts of India, millets were used for a variety of dishes. Especially, for their incredible nutrient rich composition.

Salt is processed from salt mines, and by the evaporation of seawater (sea salt) and mineral-rich spring water in shallow pools. Its major industrial products are caustic soda and chlorine; salt is used in many industrial processes including the manufacture of polyvinyl chloride, plastics, paper pulp and many other products. Of the annual global production of around two hundred million tonnes of salt, about 6% is used for human consumption. Other uses include water conditioning processes, de-icing highways, and agricultural use. Edible salt is sold in forms such as sea salt and table salt which usually contains an anti-caking agent and may be iodised to prevent iodine deficiency. As well as its use in cooking and at the table, salt is present in many processed foods.

As it was the Dutch who were mainly responsible for trading tea to other European countries and beyond, the oriental beverage became known as tea or tee in English, thé in French, thee in German, te in Italian, Spanish, Danish, Norwegian, Hungarian, and Malay, tee in Finnish, tey in Tamil, thay in Singhalese

A snack is a small portion of food generally eaten between meals. Snacks come in a variety of forms including packaged snack foods and other processed foods, as well as items made from fresh ingredients at home.