{"id":205,"date":"2017-07-12T14:03:46","date_gmt":"2017-07-12T14:03:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/herbs.widevalley.net\/?p=205"},"modified":"2017-07-12T14:04:06","modified_gmt":"2017-07-12T14:04:06","slug":"cumin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/widevalley.net\/index.php\/2017\/07\/12\/cumin\/","title":{"rendered":"Cumin"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Cumin<\/span><\/h3>\n<div><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Cumin is an annual herbaceous plant native to Eastern Mediterranean region and is popularly used for food flavoring, aroma.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The seeds of the plant are used in whole or powdered form in food processing industry.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Botanical Name: Cuminum cyminum<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">Family Name: Apiaceae<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">Parts Used: Seeds<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">Habitat: Mediterranean Region<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">India and Egypt are the largest cumin production regions.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Cumin seeds is also produced in Iran, Syria and Turkey but only for exports.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The global consumption of cumin seeds is quite low. US, UK, Japan, Brazil are the major cumin seeds importing countries.<\/span><\/div>\n<div>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Both whole seeds and powdered seeds are internationally traded. Cumin essential oil is also becoming popular in the western hemisphere.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Rajasthan and Gujarat are the two main producing areas of cumin, contributing 90% to the total cumin production.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #000000;\">A significant percentage of the total production is used for domestic consumption.<\/span><\/div>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Uses of Cumin<\/span><\/h3>\n<div><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Cumin is widely used in traditional and herbal medicinal system for being a natural stimulant, carminative and having antimicrobial properties.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">It is also used for flavoring dishes, biscuits, confectionery and other spicy products.\u00a0<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">It is also used in different industries for its essential oil.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Product&#8217;s Season is\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Final products: seeds.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cumin Cumin is an annual herbaceous plant native to Eastern Mediterranean region and is popularly used for food flavoring, aroma. The seeds of the plant are<span class=\"excerpt-hellip\"> [\u2026]<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":206,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/widevalley.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/widevalley.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/widevalley.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/widevalley.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/widevalley.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=205"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/widevalley.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":208,"href":"http:\/\/widevalley.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205\/revisions\/208"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/widevalley.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/206"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/widevalley.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/widevalley.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/widevalley.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}