BOTANICAL NAME : Foeniculum vulgare
From ayurvedic medicines to skincare regimens, fennel seeds have been helping us get closer to good health for a long long time. Our Organic Fennel Seeds are cultivated with love to offer a perfect role in diet food recipes that are good for you in more ways than one. Go ahead, add them to your dishes, use them in homely remedies or just munch them raw after your meal! The perfect finale to any meal!
• Fennel (Foeniculum vulgare) is a flowering plant species in the carrot family. It is a hardy, perennial herb with yellow flowers and feathery leaves.
• It is indigenous to the shores of the Mediterranean but has become widely naturalized in many parts of the world, especially on dry soils near the sea-coast and on riverbanks.
• It is indigenous to the shores of the Mediterranean but has become widely naturalized in many parts of the world, especially on dry soils near the sea-coast and on riverbanks.
• Florence fennel or finocchio is a selection with a swollen, bulb-like stem base that is used as a vegetable.
• Fennel is used as a food plant by the larvae of some Lepidoptera species including the mouse moth and the anise swallowtail
NUTRITIONAL BENEFITS
• Fennel symbolizes longevity, courage, and strength. In addition to its use as medicinal values, fennel has many health-benefiting nutrients, essential compounds, anti-oxidants, dietary fiber, minerals, and vitamins. Fennel seeds indeed contain numerous flavonoid anti-oxidants like kaempferol and quercetin.
• These compounds function as powerful anti-oxidants by removing harmful free radicals from the body thus offer protection from cancers, infection, aging, and degenerative neurological diseases.
• Like in caraway, fennel seeds too are rich source of dietary fiber. Much of this roughage is metabolically inert insoluble fiber, which helps increase bulk of the food by absorbing water throughout the digestive system and easing constipation prolems.
• In addition, dietary fibers bind to bile salts (produced from cholesterol) and decrease their re-absorption in colon. It thus helps lower serum LDL cholesterol levels.
• Together with flavonoid anti-oxidants, fiber composition of fennel helps protect the colon mucusa from cancers.
