Cumin Seeds
Earthy Flavor. Global Kitchens
Didwaniya Group exports premium-grade cumin seeds and cumin powder, carefully sourced from India’s top cumin-producing regions. Renowned for their intense aroma, distinctive flavor, and high essential oil content, our cumin products are cleaned, processed, and packed to meet the exacting standards of international food and spice industries.
Cumin is the dry, greenish-gray seed of an annual herbaceous plant belonging to the Apiaceae family. The seeds are oblong-oval in shape, typically measuring between 2 to 6 mm in length. Known for its robust aroma and earthy flavor, cumin offers a strong, pleasant spicy scent with a slightly bitter and sharp undertone, making it a staple in spice blends across the world.
Native to the Middle East and North Africa, cumin has been cultivated and traded for thousands of years, dating back to ancient Egyptian and Mesopotamian civilizations, where it was used for both culinary and medicinal purposes.
India remains the world’s largest producer and exporter of cumin, followed by China. Indian cumin is particularly valued for its high essential oil content, intense aroma, and flavor profile.
Characteristics
Taste: Spicy
Appearance (structure): The seeds are oblong in shape.
Smell: Aromatic
Characteristic of cumin
Mass fraction of moisture, %, not more than: 12.0
Mass fraction of essential oils, %, not less than: 2.0
Color: Yellowish green
Application
In the food industry, cumin is used in spice mixtures, sauces, for flavoring meat dishes, pork, lamb, in baking bakery products, in confectionery. Cumin is an integral ingredient of most types of "curry" and "garam masala". It is certainly put in pilaf. It gives an interesting taste to the simplest vegetable dish, goes well with minced meat, poultry. Cumin is added to other products where an aromatic, but unusual "oriental" note of taste is needed.
Storage conditions
Store in dry, clean, well-ventilated warehouses free from pests, at a relative humidity of no more than 75% and a temperature of no more than 20°C.