Dried Vegetables

Carrot

Botanical name: Daucus carota

The Carrot is the second most popular vegetable in the world after the potato. It also called as Gajar. Carrots are known as the vegetable that is easy to grow, tasty and high nutrition. It provides a lot of nutrition to the body. The carrot available in various colors like orange, purple, red, white, and yellow varieties exist.

Benefits and uses:

Carrots are rich in beta-carotene, which is converted into vitamin A in the liver. Vitamin A is transformed in the retina, to rhodopsin, a purple pigment necessary for night vision.Carrots have not only beta-carotene but also alpha-carotene and lutein.Excellent for the eyes and may improve eyesight and help with night blindness.

Falcarinol is a natural pesticide produced by the carrot that protects its roots from fungal diseases.

The high level of beta-carotene acts as an antioxidant to cell damage done to the body through regular metabolism. It help slows down the aging of cells.

Vitamin A and antioxidants protects the skin from sun damage. Deficiencies of vitamin A cause dryness to the skin, hair and nails. Vitamin A prevents premature wrinkling, acne, dry skin, pigmentation, blemishes, and uneven skin tone.

Vitamin A assists the liver in flushing out the toxins from the body. It reduces the bile and fat in the liver. The fibers present in carrots help clean out the colon and hasten waste movement.

The regular consumption of carrots also reduces cholesterol levels because the soluble fibers in carrots bind with bile acids. Carrots are good for blood sugar regulation because of the presence of carotenoids. Carotenoids inversely affect insulin resistance and thus lower blood sugar.

Carrots stimulate gums and trigger a lot of saliva, which being alkaline, balances out the acid-forming, cavity-forming bacteria. The minerals in carrots prevent tooth damage.

Cabbage

Botanical name: Brassica oleracea capitata

Cabbage is a popular cultivar of the species Brassica oleracea of the family Brassicaceae and is a leafy green vegetable. Cabbage leaves often have a delicate, powdery, waxy coating called bloom. The uniqueness of cabbage in cancer prevention is due to the three different types of nutrient richness found in this widely enjoyed food. These are antioxidant richness, anti-inflammatory richness, and richness in glucosinolates. Cabbages are also a good source of riboflavin. Cabbage is an excellent source of vitamin C. It also contains significant amounts of glutamine, an amino acid that has anti-inflammatory properties. The characteristic flavor of cabbage is caused by glucosinolates, a class of sulfur-containing glucosides.

Benefits and uses:

The fruits, leaves, oil, and seeds are edible and used by local people as folk medicines in the treatment of jaundice, diabetes, ulcer, piles, colitis, insanity, hypertension, congestive cardiac failure, and skin diseases.

The fruit pulp is used as an emetic, sedative, purgative, cooling, diuretic, antibilious, and pectoral.

The flowers are an antidote to poison. The stem bark and rind of the fruit are diuretic. The seed is vermifuge. Extracts of the plant have shown antibiotic activity.

The fruit Juice is an excellent remedy for heart problems, digestive and urinary disorders, and in diabetes. Dietary fiber present in bottle gourd helps in constipation, flatulence, and even in piles. Topical application of a mixture of juice and sesame oil on scalp gives beneficial results in baldness (hair loss).

The juice also shows better effects in the treatment of insomnia, epilepsy, and other nervous diseases. Moreover it helps break up calculus (stones) in the body.

Commercially the shell of well-ripened fruits is very hard and can be used for many purposes such as bottles, bowls, musical instruments, etc.

Bottle gourd is not only rich in essential minerals, iron, protein and trace elements; it is also rich in fiber. Fiber helps in preventing constipation and other digestive disorders like flatulence and piles.

It helps for increasing efficiency of heart and brings immune in body. Bottle Gourd play role as energizer for body and mind, it is non allergenic.

Ginger

Botanical name: Zingiber officinale

Ginger or ginger root is the rhizome of the plant Zingiber officinale. It lends its name to its genus and family Zingiberaceae. Ginger produces a hot, fragrant kitchen spice.

Benefits and uses:

As condiment, ginger is used for flavoring food products like sauce or ketchup, salad dressings, meat sausages, gravies, pickles etc.

It is used in industries like food processing, pharmaceutical, soft drinks, meat canning, confectionary, tobacco processing, soap making etc.

It is a vastly recommendable plant for its therapeutic purposes, as well as the alimentary. It is used in many medicines as it helps digestion and absorption of food and has antiseptic properties.

Capsicum

Botanical name: Capsicum annuum

Capsicum is a genus of flowering plants in the nightshade family Solanaceae. Capsicum contains Vitamins A and C, and beta-carotene. Capsicum is low in fat, calories and cholesterol. In addition to use as spices and food vegetables, capsicum has also found use in medicines. The fruit of most species of Capsicum contains capsaicin (methyl vanillyl nonenamide), a lipophilic chemical that can produce a strong burning sensation in the mouth of the unaccustomed eater. Capsaicin is present in large quantities in the placental tissue the internal membranes and, to a lesser extent, the other fleshy parts of the fruits of plants in the genus Capsicum.

Benefits and uses:

Capsicum used in stews, soups, and salsas. Extracts can be made and incorporated into hot sauces, as ingredient in different types of dishes.

Capsicum is an important source of vitamin A and vitamin C. These two vitamins are powerful antioxidants that help in fighting free radicals in the body and help in treating heart diseases, osteoarthritis, bronchial asthma, cataract etc.

It is employed in medicine, in combination with Cinchona in intermittent and lethargic affections, and also in dyspepsia accompanied by flatulence, tympanitis, paralysis etc.

Capsicum is used for various problems with digestion including upset stomach, intestinal gas, stomach pain, diarrhea, and cramps. It is also used for conditions of the heart and blood vessels including poor circulation, excessive blood clotting, high cholesterol, and preventing heart disease.

Capsicum has the capacity to prevent clotting of blood. Vitamin C is found to play a major role in dissolving blood clots. It promotes cardiovascular health, by helping lower blood pressure, good for treating colds and fevers; it has antioxidant properties that neutralize the free radicals responsible for damaging tissue and cells.

Capsicum

Botanical name: Capsicum annuum

Capsicum is a genus of flowering plants in the nightshade family Solanaceae. Capsicum contains Vitamins A and C, and beta-carotene. Capsicum is low in fat, calories and cholesterol. In addition to use as spices and food vegetables, capsicum has also found use in medicines. The fruit of most species of Capsicum contains capsaicin (methyl vanillyl nonenamide), a lipophilic chemical that can produce a strong burning sensation in the mouth of the unaccustomed eater. Capsaicin is present in large quantities in the placental tissue the internal membranes and, to a lesser extent, the other fleshy parts of the fruits of plants in the genus Capsicum.

Benefits and uses:

Capsicum used in stews, soups, and salsas. Extracts can be made and incorporated into hot sauces, as ingredient in different types of dishes.

Capsicum is an important source of vitamin A and vitamin C. These two vitamins are powerful antioxidants that help in fighting free radicals in the body and help in treating heart diseases, osteoarthritis, bronchial asthma, cataract etc.

It is employed in medicine, in combination with Cinchona in intermittent and lethargic affections, and also in dyspepsia accompanied by flatulence, tympanitis, paralysis etc.

Capsicum is used for various problems with digestion including upset stomach, intestinal gas, stomach pain, diarrhea, and cramps. It is also used for conditions of the heart and blood vessels including poor circulation, excessive blood clotting, high cholesterol, and preventing heart disease.

Capsicum has the capacity to prevent clotting of blood. Vitamin C is found to play a major role in dissolving blood clots. It promotes cardiovascular health, by helping lower blood pressure, good for treating colds and fevers; it has antioxidant properties that neutralize the free radicals responsible for damaging tissue and cells.

Spring Onion

Botanical name: Allium fistulosum

Spring Onion also called as green onions, salad onions, green shallots, onion sticks, long onions, baby onions, precious onions, yard onions. Spring onions are a very good source of vitamin C, chromium and dietary fiber. They are also a good source of manganese, molybdenum, vitamin B6, and folate, potassium, phosphorous and copper.

Benefits and uses:

Spring onions are great in stir fries, salads. It has been used as an ingredient in various dishes by many cultures around the world.

Spring onion contain sulfur compound that control blood pressure levels & often used as a medicine for common cold. It has excellent antibacterial and antifungal properties.

Tomato

Botanical name: Solanum lycopersicum

The word "tomato" may refer to the plant (Solanum lycopersicum) or the edible, typically red, fruit that it bears. The tomato fruit is consumed in diverse ways, including raw, as an ingredient in many dishes and sauces, and in drinks. While it is botanically a fruit, it is considered a vegetable for culinary purposes. Tomato cultivars vary widely in their resistance to disease

Benefits and uses:

The fruit is a familiar vegetable. It is mostly used in food industry as in form of tomato juice, eaten raw in salads or modified into ketchup.

The fruit, leaf, and vine of tomato are used for medicinal purposes. It is a good blood purifier. It helps in reducing the risk of developing hypertension. It is also used to treat high blood pressure, osteoarthritis, the common cold, chills, and digestive disorders. It prevents cancer as in breast, bladder, cervix, colon and rectum, stomach, lung, ovaries, pancreas, and prostate.

Antiseptic properties of tomatoes protect the body against various infections and helps in healing wounds sores and sunburn.

Tomatoes can be used in a number of different ways for beauty ailments. It is a natural beauty ingredient for a clearer, happier and brighter skin and can be easily added to your beauty regime. It is also used in many homemade beauty preparations. It is also used to cure large pores or reduce the acne and rashes or sooth nasty sunburn or simply to revive the glow on dull skin.

Capsicum

Botanical name: Capsicum annuum

Capsicum is a genus of flowering plants in the nightshade family Solanaceae. Capsicum contains Vitamins A and C, and beta-carotene. Capsicum is low in fat, calories and cholesterol. In addition to use as spices and food vegetables, capsicum has also found use in medicines. The fruit of most species of Capsicum contains capsaicin (methyl vanillyl nonenamide), a lipophilic chemical that can produce a strong burning sensation in the mouth of the unaccustomed eater. Capsaicin is present in large quantities in the placental tissue the internal membranes and, to a lesser extent, the other fleshy parts of the fruits of plants in the genus Capsicum.

Benefits and uses:

Capsicum used in stews, soups, and salsas. Extracts can be made and incorporated into hot sauces, as ingredient in different types of dishes.

Capsicum is an important source of vitamin A and vitamin C. These two vitamins are powerful antioxidants that help in fighting free radicals in the body and help in treating heart diseases, osteoarthritis, bronchial asthma, cataract etc.

It is employed in medicine, in combination with Cinchona in intermittent and lethargic affections, and also in dyspepsia accompanied by flatulence, tympanitis, paralysis etc.

Capsicum is used for various problems with digestion including upset stomach, intestinal gas, stomach pain, diarrhea, and cramps. It is also used for conditions of the heart and blood vessels including poor circulation, excessive blood clotting, high cholesterol, and preventing heart disease.

Capsicum has the capacity to prevent clotting of blood. Vitamin C is found to play a major role in dissolving blood clots. It promotes cardiovascular health, by helping lower blood pressure, good for treating colds and fevers; it has antioxidant properties that neutralize the free radicals responsible for damaging tissue and cells.

We are offering freeze dried green peas.