Turmeric
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Turmeric is a spice, a member of the ginger family, and is often found in Asian foods, being often used in curries and other South Asian cooking. It is also known by the names tumeric and Curcuma longa, to give it its official Latin name. Turmeric is yellow in color and is the substance most often used to color commercially made mustards and chicken broths, rather than the significantly more expensive saffron. Turmeric is also found as an important ingredient in most commercially manufactured curry powders
Turmeric has been known to and used by the people in Asian countries and by the indigenous people of both North America and South America for literally centuries. Turmeric was probably first found to be growing in India . The first records found of its existence in China are from 700 AD, in East Africa in 800 AD and in West Africa by 1200 AD. It was introduced in Jamaica in the 18 th century. Turmeric was also mentioned by Marco Polo in the journals of his travels as a hereto unknown vegetable which he viewed as being very much like saffron.
Turmeric was probably first used as a dye, because of its brilliant yellow coloring.
It has only recently become of interest to medical doctors and other professional health care workers in the United States who feel that it may well have some substantial usefulness in the health care field and are currently performing clinical tests and experimentation with it to find out its possible potentials.
Turmeric can be found as an additive in such food products as canned beverages, baked products, dairy products such as ice cream, yogurts, cheeses, butters and margarines as well as in yellow cakes, biscuits, popcorn, sweets, cake icings, cereals, sauces and gelatins.
Turmeric is also used by the cosmetic industry in the manufacture of certain types of sun screens. Clinical studies are currently being conducted upon it to see if it might also have certain tendencies for usefulness in other products related to cosmetology.
Turmeric is also being researched by medical doctors and other professional health care experts for its possible usefulness in various health related areas. Clinical studies made upon mice have shown that it might have a positive potential in helping to inhibit the possible accumulation of destructive beta amyloids and also might be useful in breaking up plaque which already exists in the brains of persons suffering from Alzheimer's disease.
Medical doctors and other health care experts are also conducting experimentation to see if the indications that Turmeric may possibly contain ingredients which have the potential to help to maintain healthy lungs, colons and other body areas is something that could have credence and if so how it can best be used productively.
