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What is Five-spice Powder? 🌿 Five-spice powder is a seasoning blend of ground spices, appearing as a dry brown powder, commonly used in Chinese and Taiwanese cuisine. It was believed that the mixture would foster internal harmony by uniting the five main flavors traditionally employed in Chinese cuisine: sweet, sour, pungent, bitter, and salty. With these perfectly balanced flavors, aligned with the five main elements (earth, fire, water, metal, and wood), tradition held that one could achieve balance in mind and body. Five-spice powder typically have the following ingredients: ✅ Star Anise: This spice provides a distinct licorice-like flavor. It’s the dominant ingredient in five-spice powder and adds a sweet and warm note. ✅ Cloves: Ground cloves contribute a pungent, sweet flavor to the blend. ✅ Chinese Cinnamon (or Cassia): Chinese cinnamon, also known as cassia, has a more pungent flavor than true cinnamon. It adds a spicy undertone to the powder. ✅ Sichuan (Szechuan) Peppercorns: These reddish-brown berries come from the prickly ash bush. Sichuan peppercorns have a unique taste—initially peppery, followed by hints of anise, ginger, and a numbing sensation. ✅ Fennel Seeds: Fennel is similar to anise but sweeter and less pungent. It doesn’t have as much of the licorice taste. Unlike what its name suggests, it doesn’t necessarily contain only five spices. Many recipes may also include other ingredients, such as ginger, nutmeg, licorice, orange peel, and galangal. #spicesusa #spices #fivespicepowder

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Hüseyin SEMERCİ

Co-Founder Breeze Home Textile Agrocultura from Nature

8mo

Oregano is also one of the famous one that used as spices, herbs and essentiol oil.

In Sri Lanka we too do a spice mix(curry powder) which adds flavour and color to our curries. Consisting, Coriander, sweet cumin, fennel, as the 3 main ingredients, with Star anise, Cinnamon, Cloves , cardamoms, curry leaves and Padam leaves to add to flavour and richness.

Abdelrahman Ali

Executive Manger Of Global Green For Export. ( Herbs, Spices, Seeds and Herbal Tea) Whatsapp: 002 015 55 21 20 19

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Hibiscus Flowers and TBC is one of the famous teas products ♥️ We can supply from Egypt www.global-green-eg.com

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Anurag Petros Joy Singh

General Manager at KINJAL AGRO SPICES. Expertise in driving International Sales, Marketing, Operations in Health & Wellness, FMCG, Commodities - B2B in North America, Europe, Far East, Middle East & Asia.

8mo

We are manufacturer and exporter of Spices from India

Susie Zong

China Dehydrated Vegetables granule/ Spices powder/ Fruits flake wholesale | professional food Manufacture Sales Manager 0086-159 0219 0970 WA no.

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❤️ We are manufacturer and exporter of Spices from China

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Ramneek Sharma

VP Sales & Marketing -GT Pan India

8mo

Execllent product

Joe Vo

Pearlex Cashew Vietnam

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Thanks for sharing

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