Caraway Seeds

Caraway seeds feature warm, sweet, and slightly peppery aroma when squeezed between index and thumb fingers. To keep their fragrance and flavour intact; caraway seeds roasted gently under low flame and ground just before using them in a recipe works well.

Here are some serving tips:

• Caraway gives a pleasant aroma to bread, cakes, biscuits, and cheese. 1/2 a teaspoon in your next loaf will flavour you bread beautifully.
• Caraway seed employed widely as a savoury spice. It’s principally added in cooking as a condiment and flavouring base.
• It features in savoury dishes, including sauerkraut, soups and salads.
• Also, along with other spicy items, they are being used to season sausage and other meat preparations.

Ingredients: Caraway
Nutritional Information: (Per 100gm Serve)
Energy 1393kJ
Protein   19.77g
Fat Total 14.59g
-saturated 0.62g
Carbohydrate  49.9g
-sugars   0.64g
Dietary Fibre  38g
Sodium  17mg

Benefits of Caraway Seeds:

• In addition to their utility as remedial items in the traditional medicines, caraway seeds have their own food value, and indeed, have many health benefiting nutrients, minerals, vitamins and antioxidants.
• Caraway seeds are a rich source of dietary fibre. 100 g seeds provide 38 g of fibre, 100% of daily recommended intake of fibre. The soluble as well as insoluble dietary fibre increase the bulk of the food and help prevent constipation by speeding up its movement through the gut.
• Also, dietary fibre binds to the toxins in the food and helps protect the colon mucosa from cancers. Further, dietary fibres bind to bile salts (produced from cholesterol) and decrease their re-absorption in the colon, and thus help in reducing serum LDL cholesterol levels.
• Caraway contains health benefiting essential oils. Principle volatile compounds are carvone, limonene, carveol, pinene, cumuninic aldehyde, furfural, and thujone. These active principles in the caraway seeds known to have antioxidant, digestive, carminative, and anti-flatulent properties.
• Caraway has health benefiting flavonoid antioxidants such as lutein, carotene, cryptoxanthin, and zeaxanthin. These compounds indeed work as powerful antioxidants by removing harmful free radicals from the body and thus protect from cancers, infection, aging and degenerative neurological diseases.
• Caraway spice is an excellent source of minerals like iron, copper, calcium, potassium, manganese, selenium, zinc and magnesium. Copper required for the production of red blood cells. Iron required for red blood cell formation. Zinc is a co-factor in many enzymes that regulate growth and development, digestion and nucleic acid synthesis. Potassium is an important component of cell and body fluids that helps regulate heart rate and blood pressure.Manganese used by the body as a co-factor for the powerful antioxidant enzyme, superoxide dismutase.
• The caraway seeds indeed are the storehouse for many vital vitamins. Vitamin-A, vitamin-E, vitamin-C as well as many B-complex vitamins like thiamin, pyridoxine, riboflavin, and niacin particularly concentrated in the seeds.