What Is Turmeric Powder?

Turmeric powder (Haldi) has various benefits. It is a wonder spice and superfood with culinary uses and medicinal properties. It is often seen as a star ingredient in beauty treatments due to its antioxidant-rich nature and antibacterial properties. Our Turmeric is Organic and iron- pounded which helps it retain most of its nutrient values.

Culinary Use

Turmeric is one of the common spices in a couple of popular spice blends – curry powder and ras el hanout. Both blends are great to have on hand because they are easy ways to get robust and complex flavors in dishes without having to create your seasoning blend from scratch each time.
Curry powder is actually a very broad term and comes in a wide variety of forms. While many of us might think of Indian food when we think of curry powder, it’s not actually that common in typical Indian cooking as most people will actually make it from scratch for each dish, such as in dishes like lamb biriyani or paneer Makhani.
However particularly since some curry dishes use a lot of spices, it has become more common for those wanting to quickly and easily recreate Indian dishes to use blends such as Madras curry powder as a base.

Health Benefits

• Lessens inflammation
• Improves memory
• Lessens pain
• Fights free radicals
• Lowers risk of heart disease
• Helps fight depression
• Helps prevent cancer

Nutritional Value

According to the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) National Nutrient Database, one tablespoon (tbsp) of turmeric powder contains:

• 29 calories
• 0.91 grams (g) of protein
• 0.31 g of fat
• 6.31 g of carbohydrates
• 2.1 g of fiber
• 0.3 g of sugar

That same 1-tbsp serving provides:

• 26 percent of daily manganese needs
• 16 percent of daily iron
• 5 percent of daily potassium
• 3 percent of daily vitamin C

Forms Available

• Whole
• Powder