Cumin Seeds

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Brown Cumin Seeds is a name given to Jeera plant seeds, also called cumin seeds. Jeera or cumin seeds are the main medicinal part of cumin plant. Jeera churna (ground cumin powder) is used in ayurvedic medicine and seeds as a whole can be used in food as condiment. Jeera is the Indian word for cumin seeds. So Jeera Rice is simply rice cooked with cumin seeds & ghee or butter. Other whole spices like cardamoms, bay leaf, cloves, cinnamon & mace are also sautéed in ghee to impart deeper flavors. The resulting dish is super fragrant with a warm & earthy aroma infused by the cumin seeds.
Cumin is the dried seed of the herb Cuminum cyminum, a member of the parsley family. The cumin plant grows to 30–50 cm (12–20 in) tall and is harvested by hand. It is an annual herbaceous plant, with a slender, glabrous, branched stem that is 20–30 cm (8–12 in) tall and has a diameter of 3–5 cm (1+1⁄4–2 in).[11] Each branch has two to three sub-branches. All the branches attain the same height, so the plant has a uniform canopy. The stem is colored grey or dark green. The leaves are 5–10 cm (2–4 in) long, pinnate or bipinnate, with thread-like leaflets. The flowers are small, white or pink, and borne in umbels. Each umbel has five to seven umbellets.[11] The fruit is a lateral fusiform or ovoid achene 4–5 mm (1⁄6–1⁄5 in) long, containing two mericarps with a single seed.[11] Cumin seeds have eight ridges with oil canals.[11] They resemble caraway seeds, being oblong in shape, longitudinally ridged, and yellow-brown in color, like other members of the family Apiaceae (Umbelliferae) such as caraway, parsley, and dill

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Black Cumin Seeds, which expands in virtually every region of europe and also finds many growing locations on the planet, is a thin-leaved and herbaceous field plant. The black tiny sesame seeds made use of as black cumin are seeds in capsules that grow on the branches of the plant.