01.What is Star Anise?

Illicium verum, commonly called star anise, star aniseed, or Chinese star anise is a spice that closely resembles anise in flavor, obtained from the star-shaped pericarp of Illicium verum, a medium-sized native evergreen tree of northeast Vietnam and southwest China.

02.Use?

The star-shaped fruits are harvested just before ripening. Star anise oil is a highly fragrant oil using in cooking, perfumery, soaps, toothpastes, mouthwashes, and skin creams. 90% of the world's star anise crop is used for extraction of a chemical intermediate used in the synthesis of oseltamivir.

03.Main constituents

The dried fruits may contain 5 to 8% of essential oil, which domi­nated by anethole (85 to 90%). The other com­ponents, methylchavicol, phell­andrene, linalool, safrole and terpineol, have only small effect on the aroma. Traces of 1,4 cineol can be used to distinguish star anise from anise, which (like most other spices) is free of this compound.

04.Cinnamon

is a spice obtained from the inner bark of several trees from the genus Cinnamomum that is used in both sweet and savoury foods. While Cinnamomum verum is sometimes considered to be "true cinnamon", most cinnamon in international commerce is derived from related species, which are also referred to as "cassia" to distinguish them from "true cinnamon"

05

Cinnamon is the name for perhaps a dozen species of trees and the commercial spice products that some of them produce. All are members of the genus Cinnamomum in the family Lauraceae. Only a few of them are grown commercially for spice.

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Sunday, April 12, 2015

Broken Cassia

Specifications:
Length: ength minimum 5cm and up,
Color: bright & brown,
Fully dried,
Moisture: 13.5% max,
Admixture: 1% max, without others barks, not insect.
packing net 10 kgs/carton
Quantity per 40'fcl: 17.5-19.0 MTs

Whole Cassia

Specifications:
Length: 35-45cm
Thickness: 2-3.5mm
Moisture: 13.5% max
Foreign matters: 1%max
Oil content: >=2%
Color: Bright yellow
Odor: Aromatic
Taste: Hot Spicy
Well dried, clean, no mould or fungus
Packing: 10kgs carton
Quantity: 10 MT more.

Split Cassia

Specifications:
- Length: 35-45cm
- Thickness: 0.7-1.8mm
- Moisture: 13.5% max
- Foreign matters: 1% max
- Oil content: >=2%
- Color: Bright yellow
- Odor: Aromatic
- Taste: Hot Spicy
Well dried, clean, no mould or fungus
Packing: 10kgs carton