Benefits of Garam Masala and How Is It Used?

Megha Rajput
2 min readOct 18, 2019

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India has been the treasure of many essential herbs and spices. In ancient times, great people of India used to apply spices as medicine for many diseases. They used to treat their multiple dangerous wounds with spices like Haldi, and many herbs. There are so many other spices in India that are used to treat the serious wounds, to cure many diseases, to cook delicious food and Garam Masala is one of them. In India garam masala is not only used for cooking the delicious food, but it also used to cure many diseases.

How garam masala is prepared?

In English, garam masala is known as a hot mixture of spices. Hot is refers to the word “blend” which is in Ayurveda medicine used for heating a body. It is especially useful for increasing up the digestive fire to make it easy for a body to digest food easily and fast.

There are ingredients, from which garam masala is made of, and the ingredients may vary from region to region but the most common ones are:

  1. NUTMEG
  2. CARDAMOM
  3. CLOVES
  4. CUMIN
  5. CORIANDER
  6. CUMIN
  7. BLACK PEPPER.

These are the most common ingredients from which garam masala is made of.

BENEFITS OF GARAM MASALA AND HOW IT IS USED?

1. It has strong antioxidants

Every ingredient from which garam masala is made contains strong antioxidants. After mixing them a mixture of strong ingredients is come out. Out of all, Cinnamon is the most powerful ingredient. After the cinnamon, cardamom, and clove are the second-highest, which presents exceptional antioxidant properties.

2. It helps indigestion.

When struggling for bad digestion problems, spice up the food with some garam masala. It increases the digestive fire, which helps to digest the food. Cumin is one of the most digestive components that boost the digestive activity of enzymes. This ingredient is also used to treat the disease like (IBS) irritable bowel syndrome. According to a study, eating food with garam masala increases the potential of the digestive system.

3. It decreases the risk of cancer.

An ingredient like garam masala is also useful in controlling serious diseases like cancer. This mixture of many special ingredients helps in preventing cancer. In many countries, to cure cancer, garam masala has been used which comes under a daily routine. Out of all the ingredients that are garam masala is made from clove is the most impactful in curing the disease like cancer as it promotes the cell function and inhibit tumor growth in the body and also helps in the early stage of lung cancer.

These are some essential use of garam masala which helps to prevent many diseases. To buy a good quality of the Ground species like garam masala You can export it from Indian Masala Exporters, ground spices exporter.

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