Mint Plant Herb / Mint leaves / Menta Piperita / Dried Peppermint / Dry Mentha Piperita
Family: Lamiaceae
Botanical name: Mentha piperita
Origin: Egypt
Packing: 20 kg pp bags
Hs Code: 12119040
Cultivation: common (conventional)
Application: essential oil / food / Herbal Tea
What are the uses of peppermint?
1) We can use fresh and dried leaves of peppermint in making useful herbal tea.
2) Due to its distinctive flavor and smell, peppermint is commonly added to make ice cream, fruit preserves, alcoholic beverages, candy, and gums.
Peppermint is also used as an aromatic component in the production of some health care products such as toothpaste, shampoos, soaps, and skin care goods.
Spices are the essential part of every household and we provide spices which are custom made to suit customer requirement and taste. Also spices can be used for for other purposes, such as medicine, religious rituals, cosmetics, perfumery or eating as vegetables. For example, turmeric is also used as a preservative; liquorice as a medicine; garlic as a vegetable. In some cases they are referred to by different terms. In the kitchen, spices are distinguished from herbs, which are leafy, green plant parts used for flavouring purposes. Herbs, such as basil or oregano, may be used fresh, and are commonly chopped into smaller pieces.
Spices, however, are dried and often ground or grated into a powder. Small seeds, such as fennel and mustard seeds, are used both whole and in powder form. Implementing advanced methods of extraction, blending, mixing etc., we manufacture and export wide range of basic ground spices as well as blended masalas. All our products comply with international health & safety standards. All our products are quality certified by quality control department before being dispatched for the marketplace. We ensure to deliver all our products in convenient packaging and within stipulated time frame.
Ground Spices:
Turmeric Powder
Nutmeg and mace spice contains many plant-derived chemical compounds that are known to have been anti-oxidant, disease preventing, and health promoting properties.
The spicy nut contains fixed oil trimyristin and many essential volatile oils such as which gives a sweet aromatic flavor to nutmeg such as myristicin, elemicin, eugenol and safrole. The other volatile-oils are pinene, camphene, dipentene, cineole, linalool, sabinene, safrole, terpeniol.
The active principles in nutmeg have many therapeutic applications in many traditional medicines as anti-fungal, anti-depressant, aphrodisiac, digestive, and carminative functions.
This spice is a good source of minerals like copper, potassium, calcium, manganese, iron, zinc and magnesium. Potassium is an important component of cell and body fluids that helps control heart rate and blood pressure. Manganese and copper are used by the body as co-factors for the antioxidant enzyme, superoxide dismutase. Iron is essential for red blood cell production and as a co-factor for cytochrome oxidases enzymes.
It is also rich in many vital B-complex vitamins, including vitamin C, folic acid, riboflavin, niacin, vitamin A and many flavonoid anti-oxidants like beta-carotene and cryptoxanthin that are essential for optimum health.
