Saving saffron

J&K proposes a strategy

Curcumin shield

Why India has the world's lowest rate of Alzheimer's disease

Falling trade

Spicy cure

Indian chilli is the hottest

Turmeric harvester

Bitter blow

Spice route

Cardamom could show the way to sustainable income generation

Safe storage

Using a little turmeric powder mixed with rice can protect the stored grain from pests

Documenting the dying

A bit of ajwain

Can cure ringworm infection

Non-lethal bomb

Unwrap the secret of health

Oriyas fight winters with a delicacy covered in turmeric leaves

Adding life to spice

The biochemical disciplinarian

Hot pepper genome decoded

Study opens doors for creating better varieties, with different nutritional values and flavours

Goa’s signature spice

Pungent teppal balances dishes’ strong sweet-sour flavour

Chilli varieties

How to make curcumin cure better

The fall of the golden spice

The colour of chilli

FRANCE may have rejected consignments of chilli powder from India because a banned carcinogenic colouring matter -- Sudan red 1 -- was detected. …

Many hues of haldi

Turmeric plays a prominent role not just in our kitchens, but in many auspicious rites and rituals as well

Fat cells hate turmeric

Bitter way to slow ageing

Indian researchers find bitter cumin contains antioxidants

Coorg cardamom gets GI status