Black Cumin Seeds is known as one of the widely used spices in our day-to-day cuisines, also known as nigela sativa. Cumin along with coriander forms a major ingredient of curry powder and other natural spices blends. Our black cumin has also its applications worldwide in sectors other than food like beverages, liquors, medicines, toiletries and perfumery. Black cumin seeds and nigela sativa oil are used as cooking spices.
Nigella sativa is the scientific name for the plant on which black cumin seeds grow, and it is a member of the buttercup family. They are not related to the common cooking herb, cumin, from the Cuminum cyminum plant, although the two look similar. Black cumin seeds are very dark, thin, and crescent shaped