Vijrah Agro - Spices

Red Chilly

Product Description :

Chilies show more or less the same aroma components as paprika, but their content in capsaicin (the amide of 3-hydroxy-2-methoxy-benzylamine with 8-methyl-6-noneneoic acid) and related compounds. An indispensable and probably the most popular culinary spice in the world, chilly, has a pungent flavor. India is the largest exporter of this widely used spice.

Scientific Name
Capsicum Annuum / Capsicum Frutescens

Indian Name
Lal Mirch

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Varieties and Grades Indian of Chillies :

The highly pungent 'Sannam' and the mildly pungent 'Mundu' Chilies are internationally popular varieties. India also offers 'Gospurea' Chillies and 'Byadgi' Chillies grown in Dharwad district of Karnataka and 'Tomato' Chillies grown in Warangal. Andhra Pradesh Chillies have high colour value.

Chillies come as whole, with or without stalks, fresh, dried and ground Chillies as chilly powder, dried crushed Chillies for Pizza, Oils and Oleoresins.

Different Varieties:

  • Chilly Whole without Stem

  • Chilly Whole with Stem

  • Chilly Powder Hot

  • Chilly Powder Mild

  • Chilly Powder Kashmiri

  • Crushed Chilly (Pizza)

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Turmeric Finger & Powder

Product Description :

Turmeric comes from the root of Curcuma longa, a leafy plant in the ginger family. The root, or rhizome, has a tough brown skin and bright orange flesh. Turmeric is the boiled, dried, cleaned and polished rhizomes Curcuma longa. The plant is a herbaceous perennial, 60-90 cm high, with a short stem and tufted leaf. There are 7 to 12 leaves, the leaf sheaths forms the pseudo stem.

Scientific Name
Curcuma Longa L.

Indian Name
Haldi

Availability for Export
During January – June of each year.

Varieties and Grades of Turmeric :

  • Turmeric Fingers

  • Turmeric Powder 2.5 % Curcumin

  • Turmeric Powder 3.5 % Curcumin

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Cumin Seeds & Powder

Product Description :

A basic Indian spice. Used mainly in North India. Used for its strong but very pleasing flavor. Cumin seeds are the seeds of Cuminum cyminum, which belongs to the parsley family. It is pale green in color and elliptical in shape with deep furrows.

Scientific Name
Cuminum Cyminum

Indian Name
Jeera

Export Availability
February – April

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Coriander Seeds

Product Description :

Coriander Seed is globular and almost round, brown to yellow red, and 1/5 inch in diameter with alternating straight and wavy ridges. Coriander is primitive to the Mediterranean and the Orient, and is related to the parsley family. It's known for both its seeds (actually the dried, ripe fruit of the plant) and for its dark green, lacy leaves. The flavors of the seeds and leaves do not resemble each other.

Scientific Name
Coriandrum Sativum

Indian Name
Dhania

Export Availability
Whole year

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Mustard Seeds

Product Description

Mustard Seed comes from two large Shrubs, Brassica Juncea (Brown Mustard) and Brassica Hirta (Yellow Mustard), native to Asia. Both plants produce bright yellow flowers that contain small round seeds. Mustard seeds can be traced to different areas of Europe and Asia with the white variety originating in the eastern Mediterranean regions, the brown from the foothills of the Himalayan Mountains, and the black from the Middle East.

Scientific Name
Brassica Juncea / Brassica Hirta

Indian Name
Rai / Sarson

Export Availability
February-May.

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Fennel Seeds & Powder

Fennel seeds (Foeniculum Vulgare), are greenish brown to yellowish brown oblong ovals about 6 mm (0.25 inch) long with five prominent longitudinal dorsal ridges. They contain 3 to 4 percent essential oil. In India it is known as Saunf/aniseeds.

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Fenugreek Seeds

Fenugreek is the small stony seeds from the pod of a bean-like plant. The seeds are hard, yellowish brown and angular. Some are oblong, some rhombic, other virtually cubic, with a side of about 3 mm. Fenugreek seeds are a dried, ripe seed of the herb Trigonella foenum - graecum. It is brownish-yellow in color and known as Methi in India.

Celery Seeds and Powder

Indian Name
Shalari, Ajmud, Randhuni

Seed of the celery resembles the plant itself in taste and aroma and is used as a seasoning, particularly in soups and pickles.Celery seeds are the dried fruit of Apium graviolens, which belongs to the parsley family. The seeds are very small, oval-shaped and light Green in color. They have a crisp texture subtle flavour.

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Dill Seed

Indian Name
Sowa

Product Description

The seed is light brown, winged and oval, with one side flat, with two ridges. The other side is convex with three ridges and three oil channels. Seeds are about 3.5 mm (0.15 in) long. Dill is the dried fruit of the herb Anethum graveolens, which belongs to the parsley family. Dill seeds are oval-shaped, soft and fluffy and has a pungent and aromatic flavor.

Poppy Seeds

Indian Name
Kash Kash / Posta Dana.

Poppy Seeds are tiny nutty tasting, blue-gray seeds inside capsules on Papaver omniferum, a yellowishbrown opium plant indigenous to the Mediterranean. Poppy seed is the dried seed of Papaver somniferum, an erect annual herb, 30-150 cm long with 0.5-1.5 cm thick stem. Stem is glabrous with thick waxy coating. Leaves are numerous, alternate, spreading horizontally, 15-25 cm long.

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