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It’s surprising how most of our meals contain food ingredients that we do not even know about. Different flavorings are used to rekindle our taste buds and most of these flavorings and preservatives are derived mainly from spices, herbs and condiments.

It does not matter if you are a housewife, or a chef or just someone looking for information. The aim of this blog is to ensure that you will be able to know, at least for the sake of knowledge of the power of these various condiments. You will be surprised that they are not just things that are used to give your meals the ’spicy’ feeling. They are a lot more than that.

For instance, who would have known that Turmeric, a popular spice that is popular and is grown mainly in the Southern-eastern of Asia could be used to relieve flatulence. As funny as it may sound, turmeric is used in most Indian based dishes as well and has many healing properties.

Of course, the aim here is just to provide knowledge and I am not a physician and thus cannot recommend the use of these medicinal properties of spices and other condiments. It will be interesting to see how these mere things could be of great assistance.

I would like to work on individual spices one by one and post up research materials and information on where they are grown and their medicinal values and so on, and would love to publish something new every week hoping to make this blog a useful one for anyone who is interested in finding out more about these powerful condiments.