Cumin is panicum miliaceum, also known as cumin or cumin in Umbelliferae, and fennel in southern Xinjiang. It is very harsh on the growing environment and conditions, and is generally planted in humid, cool, ventilated, fertile and loose sandy loam with low salinity. Cumin is native to Central Asia and Iran, and mainly distributed in India, Iran, Turkey, China and other Central Asian regions.

Cumin type

Cumin is also known as cumin or cumin celery, and fennel in southern Xinjiang. It is native to Central Asia and Iran, and mainly distributed in India, Iran, Turkey, Egypt, China and Central Asia of the former Soviet Union.

Cumin attribute

Cuminum cyminum L. is panicum miliaceum of Cuminum cyminum L. of Umbelliferae, and its growing environment and conditions are very strict. Generally, it is planted in sandy loam with moist and cool, good ventilation, fertile and loose soil and low salinity.

What does cumin look like?

1, Cumin shape: Cumin is an annual or biennial herb. Gardenia plants are 20~40 cm tall, smooth and hairless, with oblong petals and pink or white colors.

2. What are the leaves of cumin: the petiole of cumin is1~ 2cm long or nearly sessile, with a narrow lanceolate sheath, and the leaves are bipinnately divided, with a length of1.5 ~ 5cm and a width of 0.3 ~ 0.5mm..

3. Cumin color: Cumin mostly floats on the water, and the water only turns pale yellow, but the plant is still transparent.

Function and value of cumin

1, Cuminum cyminum L. is rich in essential oil, protein, polyphenols, dietary fiber and other nutrients, and has health-care effects such as regulating qi, stimulating appetite, dispelling cold and removing dampness, resisting allergy, resisting oxidation, killing bacteria and inhibiting bacteria, resisting cancer, resisting platelet aggregation and diabetes.

2. Cumin contains a certain amount of apigenin, which has a certain effect on cancer cells. In addition, apigenin also has antioxidant, sedative and sedative effects.