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What gives IndiaOrganix spices their flavour?

posted on Monday, August 11, 2008 10:57 PM

Through spices, nature provides an incredible variety of colours, textures, aromas and flavours that add interest and depth to our meals.

The many and varied flavours in spices are held in the volatile oils that naturally occur in spices. Some of these flavours are apparent in the fresh spice, for example in ginger.

Other spices either change or only develop their true flavour on drying. One dramatic example is vanilla, a green tasteless bean that grows on a tropical climbing orchid. It is only after drying and curing that the enzyme reactions which take place actually form the vanilla flavour.

In a similar manner, when peppercorns are picked green, the enzyme reaction that occurs upon drying turns them black and creates the pepper flavour we all know so well.

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