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