Spices

Distribution & Uses

India mostly exports chilli, turmeric, cumin, coriander, pepper, fenugreek, ginger, fennel, nutmeg & mace, celery, small and large cardamom, garlic to the United States, United Arab Emirates, Bangladesh, Pakistan, the United Kingdom, Japan, Nigeria, Nepal, Germany, France, England, Japan, and Australia. Spice canvases and oleoresins, as well as mint products, reckoned for 35 of total import earnings. Chilli reckoned for 24 of the aggregate, with cumin account for 11, pepper account for 9, and turmeric account for 5. When compared to the same time previous year, the import of Cardamom( Large), chilli, turmeric, coriander, cumin, fenugreek, garlic, other eclectic seeds, vanilla, curry greasepaint, spice canvases & oleoresins, and mint products has increased in both volume and value.

Spices are essential in boosting the flavour and taste of processed meals. Furthermore, the pharmaceutical business is a significant user of spices. Spice shall mean or be applied to any dried, fragrant, aromatic, or pungent, edible vegetable or plant substance, in whole, broken, or ground form, that contributes flavour; whose primary function in food is seasoning rather than nutrition, and which may contribute relish or piquancy to foods or beverages that are true to name, and from which no portion of any volatile oil or other flavouring principle has been purposefully removed, or from which no additive or spent spice has been removed, or which no additive or spent spice has been removed Spices can be the bark, buds, bulbs, flowers, fruit, leaves, rhizome, roots, seeds, stigmas, and styles or the entire plant top.