Specifications
Type : Dried
Shelf Life : 12 Months
Grade : Food Grade
Color : Green
Drying Process : Sun Drying
Place Of Origin : India
Moisture : 3%
Admixture : 1%
Coliform : <30/g
India's love affair with fennel needs no introduction. This powder dominates a variety of Indian preparations. It possesses numerous benefits such as regulating blood pressure and containing a multitude of minerals.
It is a hardy, perennial herb with yellow flowers and feathery leaves. It is a highly aromatic and flavourful herb with culinary and medicinal uses. It is one of the most important spices in certain parts of India and its neighbouring countries. Fennel seed are exported mainly to countries like USA, Malaysia, UAE, Singapore, Saudi Arabia and Sri Lanka.
India is the largest exporter of fennel seeds, widely known as saunf. Fennel seed symbolizes longevity, courage and strength. In addition to its use as medicinal values, fennel indeed has health benefiting nutrients
We are offering Fennel. Fennel seeds indeed contain numerous flavonoid anti-oxidants like kaempferol and quercetin. These compounds function as powerful anti-oxidants by removing harmful free radicals from the body thus protect from cancers, infection, aging and degenerative neurological diseases.
BSS Worldwide Private Limited is the largest supplier of Agro Commodities, Oil Seeds, Spices and Agro Produces from India. We are the largest Indian exporter having direct tie-ups with manufacturers, suppliers and agents. Our all suppliers are selected as per strict guidelines of quality parameters only. Our products have been widely appreciated by our customers for their different features like superior quality, freshness, purity, pricing, delivery in time etc. Our objective is to enhance customer satisfaction by consistently providing a quality of service that meets or exceeds customer expectations.
Fennel is a biennial, aromatic, stout, glabrous, 1.5 to 1.8 mtr high. The ripe fruit (seed) is small, oblong, cylindrical, 6.8mm long, straight or slightly curved, greenish yellow, deeply furrowed, 5 ridged and having agreeable aroma.
Origin and Distribution
It is a native of Europe and Asia Minor. It is cultivated extensively in Northern India as a cold weather crop. It comes up well in fairly mild climate. The dry and cold weather favours high seed production. Prolonged cloudy weather at the time of flowering is conducive to diseases and pests.
Uses of Fennel Seeds
The leaves of fennel is used for garnishing. Leaves and stalks are used in salads. It is an essential ingredient in Italian sausages, widely used to sprinkle on pizza. Dried fruits have fragrant odour and pleasant aromatic taste and therefore used as a masticatory. They are also used for flavouring soups, meat dishes, sauces, pastries, confectionaries and liquors. The fruits are aromatic, stimulant and carminative.
Fennel is a perennial, pleasant-smelling herb with yellow flowers. It is native to the Mediterranean, but is now found throughout the world.
Dried fennel seeds are often used in cooking as an anise-flavored spice.
But don't confuse fennel with anise, though they look and taste similar, they are not the same. Fennel's dried ripe seeds and oil are used to make medicine.
Product origin : Sri Lanka / ceylon
Minimum Order Size and Packgaing details : Depends on the requirement
Fennel is highly aromatic and flavorful herb with culinary and medicinal uses. Fennel seed look like cumin seeds, only greener, and have an aniseed flavor and a warm, sweet aroma. They are oblong, elliptical, straight and slightly curved with prominent ridges. The seeds emit a pleasant odor, are highly aromatic and have a pungent flavor.
Seeds of the fennel plant are widely used in many culinary traditions of the world. They are used in spice mixes such as Chinese five spices and the Indian panch puran. Fennel is also used as a flavoring in some nature toothpastes. In many parts of India and Pakistan, fennel seeds are consumed as an after-meal digestive and breath freshener.