CUMIN GODI SUSMITHA CUMIN Scientific Name :

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CUMIN GODI SUSMITHA CUMIN Scientific Name : Cuminum cyminum L. Family : Apiaceae/ Umbelliferae English name : Cumin Indian name: Jiro, Jeera, Zira or Safoid Jeero or Zeera (Hindi), Sofaid Jiro or Zeera (Bengali and Punjabi), Jiru or Jeeru (Gujarati), Jeerige (Kannada), Zyur (Kashmiri), Jeerakam (Malayalam), Jeregire ( Marathi), Jira, Jeera (Oriya), Jiraka, Jiro (Sanskrit), Zero(Sindhi), Ziragam or Jeeragom (Tamil), Jidakara, Jikaka (Telugu IMPORTANCE AND USES: Cumin or Safaid jeera (Cuminurn cyminum L.) is one of the oldest spices known to mankind. It is the ripe fruit of a slender herb. Cumin seeds are yellowish to greyish-brown and have an aromatic odour due to the presence of an aromatic alcohol, cuminol, and a spicy somewhat bitter taste, and are extensively used as a condiment. Cumin is used as an essential ingredient in all mixed spices and curry powder for flavouring soups, pastries, stews, sausages, pickles, cheese and for seasoning bakery products such as bread and cakes . Cumin oil is used in soaps, perfumery and for flavouring liquors and cordials. The absolute is superior to the oil for flavouring. Cumin aldehyde is also used in perfumery. Cumin seeds yield a volatile oil (2.5 to 4.5 %), the chief constituent of which is cuminaldehyde (20-40%) which is used in perfumery. In addition to this, seeds also contain a fixed oil (10%) with a strong aromatic flavour. It is also used as a ingredient in many Ayuruedic medicines. It is prescribed as a stimulant and carminative in indigenous medicines. It is an astringent and is useful in flatulence and griping, and in conditions of diarrhoea and dyspepsia. Cumin seeds are now chiefly used in many veterinary drugs. The distillation-residue water of the oil is given to children as carminative and is useful in flatulence and griping. The residue left over after the extraction of volatile oil contains 17.2% protein and 30% fat. It can be used as a cattle feed. The fixed oil could also find use in the oil, fat and soap industries Origin and distribution Cumin is a native of Egypt, Syria, Turkey and the Eastern Mediterranean region. It is an important cash crop of India, Argentina, Cyprus, Denmark, Mexico, USSR, Pakistan, Syria, Iran, Morocco, Turkey, China, Southern Russia, Indonesia and Japan. Iran is the major world exporter of the cumin seed known as 'green cumin'. In India, it is cultivated on a commercial scale in Rajasthan, Gujarat, Tamil Nadu