Description
Ajwain (pronounced uj-wine) is a seed-like fruit often used in Indian cooking as part of a spice mixture. It looks similar to fennel and cumin seeds and is highly fragrant, smelling like thyme. Its taste, however, is more like oregano and anise due to the bitter notes and strong flavor.
Grown in India and Iran, Ajwain, also known as carom seeds or bishops weed, is rarely eaten raw and instead is cooked before adding to a recipe. It is sold in both seed and powder form, although cooking with seeds is more common.
It contains essential oil, which is composed of several bioactive compounds, and therefore it has medicinal importance. Ajwain is available throughout the year. Ajwain shrub leaves are feathery. Ajwain seeds are the fruit of the shrub, which is small, oval-shaped, and pale yellow.
Ajwain seed looks like fennel and cumin. Ajwain has been used from ancient times in Indian, African, and Middle Eastern for cooking which also boosts the favor of dishes and acts as a preservative in chutneys, pickles, and jams. They contain a unique source of digestive fibers that helps in keeping good gut health.
Apart from adding flavours to our dishes, Ajwain serves several other health benefits, such as; it helps to maintain our digestive health, it treats common cold, it is good for ear and toothache, it can lessen greying of hair, it eases the pain due to Arthritis, it helps in curing constipation, helps in treating pain due to kidney disorders, helps in treating asthma, helps in treating excessive bleeding and irregular menses, and also reduces body weight.
We offer a wide variety of Natural Carom Seeds. This includes Carom Seeds ranging in purity from 99% Machine-cleaned to 99.85% Sortex-cleaned.
