Fenugreek Absolute
Origin: India

Trigonella foenum graecum

Fenugreek is one of the oldest medicinal plants. Throughout history, its leaves and seeds have been used as an herb, a spice and as a natural remedy for many ailments. Fenugreek extract has a spicy, powerful and warm smell with aromatic, celery and nutty facets.

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Sent the : 9/10/24

Product range : Absolutes - Résinoides

Process : Volatile solvent extraction process

Part used : Seeds

Aspect : Solid, Soft to Pasty

Color : Brown Orange

Olfactive family : Spicy

Application : Flavour EU, Flavour US, Fragrance, Flavour Japan China Korea

Geographical origin : India

Certifications : Kosher

Details and product description
Introduction:
Fenugreek, also known as Greek hay or trigonella, is a plant that grows in the scrublands and rocky hillsides of the Mediterranean basin. It is native to India and West Asia. It is easily identified due to its powerful odor. Wild fenugreek is hairy and only its central stem is erect. Its leaves are composed of three leaflets. Fenugreek has flowers that are single or grow in pairs, usually pale yellow or whitish, tinged with purple at the base. They produce narrow, elongated pods containing rather flat cube-shaped seeds, which are the part of the plant used. Fenugreek Is an annual herbaceous plant with an upright stem 50 cm tall and with long petiolate and trifoliate leaves. its flowers are a creamy white color, with a corolla that has a triangular posterior petal. Its fruit is a pod, shaped like a sickle, with a beaked end containing 10 to 20 polyhedral, hard, brownish and very fragrant seeds.
History:
Fenugreek is native to the Middle East and spread to the Mediterranean basin as well as to India and China where it became part of the Ayurvedic Pharmacopoeia and traditional Chinese medicine. The name fenugreek comes from the Latin foenum graecum meaning "Greek hay" because it was used a forage crop since the Roman Empire. It was used by Greek gladiators and athletes to give them strength and appetite. By extension, it is a plant for those who want to develop their narcissism or vanity and their fortune. The medicinal and nutritional use of fenugreek dates from 1550 BC, when it was cited in the famous Ebers Papyrus for use by the Egyptians to embalm the dead and purify the air of dwellings and places of worship. Its seeds were used to make bread or were burned as incense for the purpose of facilitating childbirth. In ancient Greece, philosophers and their pupils nibbled seeds mixed with evening primrose oil as an "aid to thought" occasionally called "philosopher’s clover." In the beginning of the ninth century, the Benedictines introduced the cultivation of fenugreek in France in the gardens of numerous abbeys where the plant was used to fatten domestic animals. Oriental women have long enjoyed the virtues of fenugreek to acquire the plumpness that their civilization considers essential to their beauty. Fenugreek has been used in all times as a spice and is currently used in the composition of curry.