RKR Exports

Madipakkam, Chennai, Tamil Nadu

Turmeric is the boiled, dried, cleaned and polished rhizomes of 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. The lamina is green above and pale green below and has a length of 30-40 cm and width 8-12 cm. Inflorescence is a central spike of 10-15 cm length. 1-4 flowers are born in axil of the bract opening one at a time. About 30 flowers are produced in a spike. Seeds are produced in capsules and there will be one to numerous sunken capsules in an inflorescence.

It is a native of India. Apart from India, it is cultivated in Pakistan, Malaysia, Myanmar, Vietnam, Thailand, Philippines, Japan, Korea, China and Central America. In India, it is cultivated in the States of Andhra Pradesh, Maharashtra, Orissa, Tamil Nadu, Karnataka and Kerala. Turmeric is a tropical crop cultivated from sea level to 1200 meter MSL. It grows in light black, black clayey loams and red soils in irrigated and rainfed conditions. The crop cannot stand water logging or alkalinity.

Product Specifications

Commodity:Turmeric

Variety:Finger or Bulbs/Root or Grounded

Origin:Tamil Nadu, India

Quality SpecificationsFinger or Bulbs or Hybrid

Colour:Brilliant Yellow

Length:3 cm and above(less than 15mm- 3% max)

Bulbs:2%

Moisture:12% max

Unboiled or less boiled:0.3% max

Free from:Infestation, fungus, dyes and colouring chemicals

Ground TurmericGround Turmeric 2% Curcumin

Curcumin:2% min

Particle size:50 ASTM

Moisture:5% max

Ground Turmeric 3% Curcumin

Curcumin:3% min

Particle size:50 ASTM

Moisture:5% max

Ground Turmeric 5% Curcumin

Curcumin:5% min

Particle size:50 ASTM

Moisture:5% max

Packing & Shipment Specifications

Inspection:SGS or any other agency as per your requirement for Weight and Quality.

Packing:Standard in 50 Kg Jute Bags with HDPE or PP Lining or as per customer requirements

Mode of Payment:TT, LC

Delivery:Delivered to the loading port of choice within 15 days from the date of receipt of Confirmed Purchase Order & Receipt of Advance.

Applicable Shipment Terms:FOB/CFR/CIF Inco Terms 2010 as needed by the Customer to their port of choice

Spice Uses & Other Information of Note

Turmeric is used to flavour and to colour foodstuffs. It is a principal ingredient in curry powder. Turmeric oleoresin is used in brine pickles and to some extent in mayonnaise and relish formulations, non-alcoholic beverages, gelatins, butter and cheese etc. The colour curcumin extracted from turmeric is used as a colorant.

Turmeric is also used as a dye in textile industry. It is used in the preparation of medicinal oils, ointments and poultice. It is stomachic, carminative, tonic, blood purifier and an antiseptic. It is used in cosmetics. The aqueous extracts has biopesticidal properties.

The True Cinnamon or Sri Lankan Cinnamon is the dried inner stem bark of Cinnamomum Verum. Cinnamon plants are grown as bushes. When the plants are of two years age, they typically measure at about 2 meter in high and 8-12 cm at the base. It is at this stage they are ready for harvesting.

Cinnamomum verumis mostly cultivated in Sri Lanka, Malagasy Republic and Seychelles. It has originated in the central hills of Sri Lanka. In India, it is grown in one or two locations in Kerala. Cinnamon is a hardy plant and is cultivated in Sri Lanka under varying conditions ranging from semi dried to wet zone conditions. The ideal temperature for growing cinnamon is between 20-30 degree C and rainfall between 1250 to 2500 mm. It thrives well as a forest tree at 300-350 meter above MsL.

Product Specifications

Commodity:Cinnamon

Origin:Sri Lanka or India

Quality SpecificationsCinnamon Sticks

Length:8-15 cm

Diameter:0.7 1.2 cm

Thickness:1.5-3 mm

Colour:Light brown

Moisture:12% max

Ground Cinnamon

Particle Size:35 ASTM

Colour:Light Brown

Moisture:10% max

Total Ash:7% max

Acid insoluble ash:2% max

Packing & Shipment Specifications

Inspection:SGS or any other agency as per your requirement for Weight and Quality.

Packing:Standard in 25 or 50 Kg Jute Bags or as per customer requirements

Minimum Quantity:5 Tons.

Supply Ability:Can meet Customer Requirements

Mode of Payment:TT, LC

Delivery:Delivered to loading port of choice within 15 days from the date of receipt of Confirmed Purchase Order & Receipt of Advance.

Applicable Shipment Terms:FOB/CFR/CIF Inco Terms 2010 as needed by the Customer to their port of choice

Spice Uses & Other Information of Note

The commercial products of cinnamon are quills, quillings, featherings, chips, cinnamon bark oil and cinnamon leaf oil. Quills are scraped peel of the inner bark of the mature cinnamon shoots, joined together with overlapping tubes, the hollow of which has been filled with smaller pieces of cinnamon peels which is dried first in the sun and thereafter in the shade. Quillings are broken pieces and splits of all grades of cinnamon quills. Featherings are feather like pieces of inner bark consisting of shavings and small pieces of bark left over. Cinnamon chips are rough unpeelable barks scraped off from the thicker stems.

Cinnamon leaf and bark oil are obtained by distilling the leaf and bark separately. Cinnamon bark is a popular spice with a delicate fragrance and a warm agreeable taste. It is used in the form of small pieces or powder. It is widely used in flavouring confectionary, liquors, pharmaceuticals and cosmetics. It is found to help diabetics in digestion of sugar. It has astringent; stimulant and carminative properties and can check nausea and vomiting. The cinnamon bark oil has anti-fungal properties and cinnamon leaf oil is widely used in perfumery and cosmetics

Fenugreek seed is the ripe fruit of an annual herb. This robust herb has light green leaves, is 30-60 cm tall and produces slender, beaked pods, 10-15 cm long, each pod contains 10-20 small hard yellowish brown seeds, which are smooth and oblong, about 3mm long, each grooved across one corner, giving them a hooked appearance.

Fenugreek is a native of South Eastern Europe and West Asia, now cultivated in India, Argentina, Egypt and Mediterranean countries (Southern France, Morocco and Lebanon). In India it is grown extensively in Rajasthan, Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh, Maharashtra and Punjab. It is a cold season crop and is fairly tolerant to frost and very low temperature. It is best suited to tracts of moderate to low rainfall and is sown in all types of soil but perform better in loam and clayey loam with proper drainage. It can also be grown on black cotton soils.

Product Specifications

Commodity:Fenugreek

Origin:Maharashtra, India

Quality SpecificationsWhole Fenugreek Seeds

Particle Size:4mm-6mm

Shape:Oblong/Rhomboid

Colour:Brownish Yellow

Moisture:11% max

Total Ash:9% max

Acid insoluble ash:1% max

Ground Fenugreek

Particle Size:30 ASTM

Colour:Yellow

Moisture:6% max

Total Ash:4% max

Acid insoluble ash:0.5% max

Packing & Shipment Specifications

Inspection:SGS or any other agency as per your requirement for Weight and Quality.

Packing:Standard in 25 or 50 Kg Jute Bags with HDPE/PP lining or as per customer requirements

Mode of Payment:TT, LC

Delivery:Delivered to loading port of choice within 15 days from the date of receipt of Confirmed Purchase Order & Receipt of Advance.

Applicable Shipment Terms:FOB/CFR/CIF Inco Terms 2010 as needed by the Customer to their port of choice

Spice Uses & Other Information of Note

Fenugreek is used both as a food and food additive as well as in medicines. Fresh tender pods, leaves and shoots are eaten as curried vegetable. As a spice, it flavours food. Powder of dried leaves is also used for garnishing and flavouring variety of food. Fenugreek extract is used as a flavouring agent of imitation maple syrup. It is one of the principle constituent of curry powder.

The seeds are used in colic flatulence, dysentery, diarrhoea, dyspepsia, chronic cough and enlargement of liver and spleen, rickets, gout and diabetes. It is also use