• Fenugreek Seed (Methe)

  • HS Code
    :    0910 99 12
  • Indian Name
    :     Methe
  • English Name
    :     Fenugreek Seed
  • Family Name
    :     Fabaceae
  • Botanical Name
    :     Trigonella foenum-graecum L.
  • Common Name
    :     Methe, Mentulu, Alholva, Fenugrec, Bockshorklee, Hulba, Fieno Greco
  • Commercial Part
        Fruit

Product Description :

Fenugreek is majorly used as a food and food additive as well as in medicines preparations. Fresh tender pods, leaves and shoots are eaten as curried vegetable. 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, diarrhea, dyspepsia, chronic cough and enlargement of liver and spleen, rickets, gout and diabetes. It is also used as a carminative, tonic, and aphrodisiac. Fenugreek oil is used in the manufacture of hair tonics.

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