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Dried Split Ginger

Based in Nigeria, we are entrusted with the task of exporting and supplying top-quality Dried Split Ginger to every nook and corner of the country and abroad. Acclaimed for the taste, aroma and quality, this Dried Split Ginger is utilized for many culinary and medicinal purposes. We offer the quality-checked Dried Split Ginger at pocket-easy prices.

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Ginger is an herbaceous perennial plant known as Zingier officinal, which belongs to the order, Scitamineae and the family, Zingiberaceae
It is a tropical herb extensively grown for its pungently aromatic underground stem or rhizome which is an important export crop valued for its powder, oil and oleoresin (NEPC, 1999).

Industries where this product is used : The rhizome is used as spice in culinary, beverage, confectionary, pharmaceutical and perfumery industries (Njoku, et al., 1995). Dry ginger contains 1-3% essential oil, 5-10% oleoresin, 50-55% starch and 7-12% moisture, with protein, fibre, fat and ash as its other constituents(Ebewele and Jimoh, 1981). Although a perennial plant, ginger is cultivated as an annual crop and propagated vegetatively by the cuttings of the fresh rhizomes.
Applications : At present, the bulk of Nigerian ginger is marketed internationally in split-dried form, where the importing countries further process it into industrial products mainly ginger powder, essential oils, oleoresin and ginger ale concentrates. The amount of foreign exchange earned by exporting dry ginger is however very insignificant when compared with the amount spent on importing processed ginger products thereby substantiating the need for industrial processing of the Nigerian ginger within Nigeria
Special Features : Ginger splitting also minimizes loss of volatile oil components; hence split-dried ginger is most suitable for industrial distillation and extraction of volatile oil and oleoresin.