Category spices

The iodized salt is a common kitchen salt obtained from sea water or from the mines of rock salt, then artificially added iodine in the form of iodide or potassium iodate. The amounts added are chosen and standardized based on the nutritional status of the population; in Italy, for example, each kilogram of iodized salt contains 30 mg of iodine (with + 40% tolerance, - 20%)

What is Mustard In the kitchen, the term mustard refers to the seeds of some plants belonging to the Brassica genus. These seeds can be used as a spice (crushed or crushed), or as a base for a typical semi-liquid dressing, called mustard sauce . As a spice, mustard seeds are used in the formulation of all kinds of dishes and in the coverage of some cured meats; in the form of seasoning, however, nowadays mustard (mustard sauce) is used mainly as an accompaniment to certain meats (hamburgers, frankfurters, sausages, etc

Generality Botanical outline In common parlance, the term "sunflower seeds" refers to the fruits of the homonymous plant (botanical name Helianthus annus , fam. Composite or Asteraceae). More precisely, they are achenes, indehiscent dried fruits containing a single seed (which do not release when ripe, hence "indehiscent") adhered in one point to the more or less hardened pericarp (crustacean in the case of sunflower seeds)

Generality Description and botanical outline of ginger Ginger is a food (edible root) that mainly has the role of spicy spice, with a pleasant, warm and pungent aroma. It appears as a species of "tuber", with a decidedly irregular shape, more or less elongated and lumpy, of a variable color between brown and pale yellow

What's this What is the Pepe Sichuan Sichuan pepper is a spice native to Asia but widely used also in the West. Insight: Sichuan pepper - whose spice, as we shall see, can be derived from several botanical species - is called by various names. The most commonly used Italian synonyms are fiore del pepe and Chinese pepper; in English it is known as: Sichuan pepper, Sichuan peppercorn or Szechuan pepper

What are dietary salts? SALT IODATE: the choice to add iodine to the common salt was taken to reduce the incidence of thyroid problems in the population. This mineral, contained mainly in algae, fish, turnips and spinach, is in fact essential for the synthesis of thyroid hormones. Its lack of nutrition can cause hypothyroidism (goiter) and the Italian diet is often poor

For the ancient Romans salt was particularly valuable; not by chance the term salary, still used today to indicate the salary of an employee, was coined in those years to give a name to the compensation of the legionaries. Salting food, besides being necessary to preserve some foods better, therefore also has a profound cultural meaning