Botanical Name Arachis hypogaea
Taste Typical
Odor Odourless, no foreign odours
Color Typical, beige/yellow typical
Production area 6000 Tons
Packing White polypropylene packaging bag of 25 kg y 50 kg
Loading 20 feet: 19 metric tonnes
Analysis Values
Purity 99.70% min
Oil content 48.00% max
Moisture 5.00% max
Type - American Type
Color - Black with white stripes
Length - 18 to 25mm
Width - 9 to 12mm
Moisture - 9% (maximum)
Imperfect seeds - 0.5%(maximum)
Admixture - 1% (maximum)
One of the initial oil seeds known to humankind, sesame seeds have been widely employed in culinary as well as in traditional medicines for their nutritive, preventive, and curative properties. Sesame is an important source of phyto-nutrients such as omega-6 fatty acids, flavonoid phenolic anti-oxidants, vitamins, and dietary fiber with potential anti-cancer as well as health promoting properties.
Sesame plant is a tall annual herb in the Pedaliaceae family, which grows extensively in Asia, particularly in Burma, China, and India. It is also one of the chief commercial crops in Nigeria, Sudan and Ethiopia. Scientific name: Sesamum indicum.
Flavorful, crunchy sesame seeds are widely considered as healthy foods. 100 grams of seeds carry 573 calories. Although, much of its calorie comes from fats, sesame contains several notable health-benefiting nutrients, minerals, antioxidants and vitamins.
The seeds are especially rich in mono-unsaturated fatty acid, oleic acid, which comprises of up to 50% of fatty acids in them. Oleic acid helps lower LDL or "bad cholesterol" and increases HDL or "good cholesterol" in the blood. Research studies suggest that Mediterranean diet which is rich in mono-unsaturated fats may help prevent coronary artery disease, and stroke by favoring healthy serum lipid profile.
1. Sunflower seeds are rich in unsaturated fatty acids, high quality protein, potassium, phosphorus, calcium, magnesium, selenium and vitamins E, vitamin B1 and other nutrients
2. It contains a wealth of potassium on the heart has a protective function, to prevent a lot of benefits of hypertension
3. Sunflower seeds are rich in vitamin E, to prevent aging, improve immunity, the role of prevention of cardiovascular disease
4. Sunflower seeds contained in the plant sterols and phospholipids, can inhibit the synthesis of cholesterol in the human body to prevent excessive plasma cholesterol, to prevent atherosclerosis
5. Sunflower seeds also regulate brain cell metabolism, improve its role in inhibiting the function, it can be used for hypnosis
