Rathi Commodities Pvt Ltd Goregaon, Mumbai, Maharashtra

Maize is a major staple food grain throughout the world, particularly in Africa, Latin America and Asia, and a major feedstuff in developed countries. The maize grain has many food (grain, flour, syrup, oil…) and non-food usages (cosmetics, adhesives, paints, varnishes). Maize starch and oil are also major products. The maize grain is a major feed grain and a standard component of livestock diets where it is used as a source of energy. Other grains are typically compared to maize when their nutritional value is estimated. Many by-products of maize processing for flour (hominy feed, bran, germs, oil meal), starch (corn gluten feed, corn gluten meal) and alcoholbiofuel industries (distillers’ dried grains and soluble) can be fed to animals.

A dried seed that comes from the fennel herb, fennel seeds look like cumin seeds, only greener, and have an aniseed flavour and a warm, sweet aroma. They’re also used in spice mixes such as Chinese five spice and the Indian panch poran.

Red speckled kidney beans Long pepper (Piper Longum), (Pippali), sometimes called Indian Long Pepper, is a flowering vine in the family Piperaceae, cultivated for its fruit, which is usually dried and used as a spice and seasoning. Long pepper has a similar, but hotter, taste to its close relative Piper Nigrum – from which Black, Green and White Pepper are obtained.

Palm Oil is also known as palm fruit oil. It is an expeller-pressed food oil, obtained from fresh fruit bunches (FFB) of oil palm cultivated in plantations. 80% of palm produced is used in food – its nutritional properties are of extreme importance. Palm oil is available in about 15 different grades, ranging from crude to semi-refined & refined, crude fractionated, refined fractionated oil and refinery by-products. Crude Palm Oil (CPO), Crude Palmolein, RBD (refined, bleached, deodorized) Palm Oil, RBD Palmolein and Crude Palm Kernel Oil (CPKO) are the various edible forms of palm oil traded in the market.

Clove stems are the stems of the bud flower of the Clove plant. Clove Stems are collected from the Clove plantations that provide the ideal warm humid tropical climate quintessential for the growth. the stems of this evergreen are well-known for their strong pungent taste and have a long history to be used in Medicinal purpose in Ayurveda. Clove Stems are widely used in the making of Clove-cigarettes and Yagna (A holy worship procedure in India). Clove Stems also contains the agent which is widely used in fragrances. Oil extracted from Clove Stem is also used in soap and candle.