Ginger

Brief Product Description:

Ginger (Zingiber officinale Roscoe) is a flowering plant whose rhizome, ginger root or simply ginger, is widely used as a spice or a medicine. It is an herbaceousperennial which grows annual stems about a meter tall bearing narrow green leaves and yellow flowers. The rhizome (ginger) is gathered when the stalk withers; it is immediately scalded, or washed and scraped, to kill it and prevent sprouting.
BOTANICAL NAME:
Zingiber Officinale
HS Code:  091010
QUALITY STANDARD:
Moisture content:      8% max
Oil content:               2-4%
Impurities:                0-2%max
Microbes:                 Negative
Moisture:8% max
PACKAGING:
The  fresh ginger are packaged in PVC cartons or corrugated fibre box  with inner lining of PE films while the dried split ginger are packaged in a clean propylene woven bags.
USES:

  1. Raw Ginger is used as a spice.
  2. It has a medicinal value against cold.
  3. It is used in the preparation of medicines and confectionery.