Posted on 09/17/2010 6:58:35 AM PDT by Scythian
India, for instance.
For years I cooked a lot of Indian food which I LOVE. Turmeric is good with cauliflower and potatoes [serrano chilies, cumin, black mustard sedds, etc].
Yum.
Check the ingredients on curry. Much of it is made up mostly of wheat flour.
The persistence of turmeric stain on your hands is related to its biocompatibility.
Good point!
Oh great. Now I've got to home school myself on something else. I've never gotten into Indian food. To me, it's like a foreign language.
Well, it looks like I'll be hitting the book store after groceries this afternoon. I'll want to know everything from growing, to harvesting, to cooking, and propagation.
Turmeric is also a great anti-inflammatory.
Doesn’t matter ~ this will happen on open threads.
Tell that to my ex-wife. She read somewhere about broccoli preventing cancer so she made the kids eat some at every meal including breakfast. (yet she drove them around town in the car without seat belts on. Go figure.)
Crushed hot red pepper mixed with a little water stops bleeding immediately. It cauterizes the wound, yet there is no burning. It's weird.
Unfortunately for people on Warfarin (Coumadin) there are reports that turmeric interacts with it and together they can be a dangerous combo. So everyone should keep that mind before recommending it to friends or relatives, as a number of older people are on blood thinners like Coumadin.
I’m going to have some turmeric at lunchtime, if I can remember it...
I think there is a lower incidence of Alzheimer’s in countries like India.
“Cumin is also a key ingredient in chile.”
Yes, especially Chili Santiago
Hmmm. I'm looking it up, and it appears to be a relative of ginger. I wonder if ginger has the same properties, but not the blood thinning properties of turmeric. Their could be an alternative.
OTOH, for those not on blood thinners...
Wal*Mart Spring Valley 90 Capsules 500 mg Ea. Turmeric Herbal Supplement 90 ct $7.00
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True. But I checked my spice cabinet, and found two kinds of curry powder; tumeric was the lead ingredient in both.
I'll have to experiment with it. I had always thought of tumeric as a sort of cheap fake saffron, imparting an intense yellow, but having little flavor. I may well be wrong on this; I don't know that I've ever used tumeric "straight," but only in the form of curry powder of one sort or another.
“In India and Southeast Asia, it’s a rare disease.”
Q: Is their life span shorter, hence less chance of occurence of Alzheimers?
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