Product Profile of Oil And Water Soluble Asafoetida Spice
Spices Board offers Oil and Water Soluble Asafoetida Spice. Spices Board is an ISO 927: 1982 certified company. The Oil and Water Soluble Asafoetida Spice is widely used for flavouring curries, sauces, and pickles and is also used in medicines because of its antibiotic properties. The Asafoetida Spice is formed from the dried latex exuded from the living underground rhizome or tap root of several species of Ferula which is a perennial herb.
Key Features of Oil And Water Soluble Asafoetida Spice
- Two main varieties of asafoetida: Hing Kabuli Sufaid [Milky white asafoetida] and Hing Lal [Red asafoetida].
- Acrid and bitter in taste
- Emits a strong disagreeable pungent odour due to the presence of sulphur compounds therein.
- Available in Tears, Mass and Paste.
- White or pale variety is water soluble and dark or black variety is oil soluble.
- Strong flavour,
- Mixed with starch and gum and sold as compounded asafoetida mostly in bricket form.
- Also available in free flowing [Powder form] or in tablet forms.
