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Health Benefits of Pure Ceylon Cinnamon

2015-07-07

Health Benefits of Pure Ceylon Cinnamon

Pure Ceylon Cinnamon or true cinnamon, as it is known across the world today, carries many health benefits backed by scientific and medical research.

Among its most celebrated health benefits is the cinnamon's ability to control blood sugar. According to the latest medical research cinnamaldehyde in cinnamon is capable of reducing the blood sugar level by 3-5%, similar to the early generation of diabetes medication. A combination of Ceylon Cinnamon, healthy diet and regular exercise is recommended as an ideal pre-diabetic life style to prevent the development of type-2 diabetes.

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Sri Lanka Supplies Top quality Cardamom to the World Spice Market

2015-07-02

Sri Lanka Supplies Top quality Cardamom to the World Spice Market

Cardamom, the queen of spice, with a sweet mixture of aroma and flavour, is the third most expensive spice in the world spice market second only to saffron and vanilla.

Part of the ancient family of spices, cardamom was used as a tooth cleaner by ancient Egyptians, while the Greeks and Romans used cardamom as a source of fragrance in perfumes and air fresheners. Ancient Chinese and Indian herbal medication also involved cardamom as a main ingredient and were among the main cultivators of cardamom.

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The History of pure Ceylon Cinnamon, the Spice of Life

2015-07-02

The History of pure Ceylon Cinnamon, the Spice of Life

Pure Ceylon Cinnamon, known as the spice of life, has been an important part of human life since the beginning of history, and Sri Lanka as the source of the world's best cinnamon has been wrapped in Myths and legends

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Ceylon Spice Condiments - the Exotic Taste of the East

2015-07-02

Ceylon Spice Condiments - the Exotic Taste of the East

Sri Lanka, India and many other Asian countries have a history of concocting spice condiments with home-grown spices to enhance the flavour of their ethnic dishes. Made mainly with fresh ingredients, these spice mixtures include numerous curry powders, curry pastes and sauces, made to a time-tested recipe.

Most of Eastern curry powders are made by grinding coriander, cumin, turmeric, cinnamon, dill, sweet cumin, chilli, ginger, curry leaf, mustard, garcinia, clove, black pepper, garlic, screw pine, lemon grass and cardamom into a mixture, and are usually used in preparation of vegetables, lentils and yams.

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Discover 8 ways pure Coconut Oil improves your health

2015-07-02

Discover 8 ways pure Coconut Oil improves your health

Hailed as a 'superfood' in the truest sense of the word, coconut oil boasts a unique combination of fatty acids that lead to effective fat burning, better cognitive function along with a range of other health benefits.

1. Coconut Oil contains fatty acids with potent medicinal properties

Coconut oil is one the richest sources of 'staurated fat' known to man, with almost 90% of the fatty acids in it being staurated. Due to the same fact, it wasn't long ago that coconut oil was blamed as a principal cause of heart problems.

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Amazing Uses of Pure Ceylon Cinnamon in Beauty Care

2015-06-30

Amazing Uses of Pure Ceylon Cinnamon in Beauty Care

The newest addition to cinnamon's medical and health benefits include its innumerable beauty benefits to skin, teeth and hair.

Ceylon Cinnamon has proved to be more than just a tasty spice and with the lowest amount of coumarin, Ceylon cinnamon has been proven to have a wide spectrum of health benefits ranging from anti-cancer, antibacterial, antioxidant action to improvement of memory, alertness and reducing blood sugar and stress.

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Ceylon Pepper  Hailed as the 'King of Spices'

2015-06-30

Ceylon Pepper Hailed as the 'King of Spices'

Considered one of the most important spices since the beginning of known history, Pepper trade controls nearly 20% of the global spice market today, and Sri Lankan Pepper exporters have the potential to expand into a market that is as lucrative as gold.

Pepper has been in global use since the fourth century BC mainly among the Eastern civilizations and the most ancient archaeological record of pepper has emerged from the tomb of Ramases II, inserted into the nostrils of mummified Pharaoh during mummification.

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Sri Lanka produces and supplies top quality essential oils to the global market

2015-06-29

Sri Lanka produces and supplies top quality essential oils to the global market

Extracted from herb and spice plants and flowers, the uses of herbal oils in medicine and cosmetics has been a common practice among Eastern civilisations until the trading sailors took these fragrant secrets with them to Europe between 11th and 13th centuries revolutionising the world's medical and beauty habits.

Essential oils derived from spices, herbs and flowers have been an essential part of Sri Lankan life style since as early as 2000 BC. The indigenous medical records of early Sri Lanka recommend the use of cinnamon oil extracted from the cinnamon leaf to relieve the pain caused by arthritis while cinnamon oil extracted from the cinnamon bark has been used for aromatherapy, to cleanse polluted air and to keep away various insects in households and in paddy fields.

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Ceylon Cinnamon Tea : A potent cure for numerous health problems

2015-06-29

Ceylon Cinnamon Tea : A potent cure for numerous health problems

The combination of Sri Lanka's two export super brands, Pure Ceylon Tea and Pure Ceylon Cinnamon, concocts a tasty flavoured tea with a number of added health benefits

While Ceylon Tea is a rich source of anti-oxidants, Ceylon Cinnamon is a list topper for the highest density of anti-oxidants per 100g, recording an Oxygen Radical Absorption Capacity (ORAC) of 267,536 TE per 100g.

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Losing body weight with a cup of of Ceylon green tea

2015-06-24

Losing body weight with a cup of of Ceylon green tea

Battling the bulge and have exhausted all the tricks in the book? It is time to sip up and slim down with Ceylon green tea.

Although numerous health benefits of green tea has been a well-known secret among global tea enthusiasts, green tea's ability to burn the fat cells in the body has come to be established through scientific research only recently.

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Fair-Trade Organic Ceylon Tea : a change for the better

2015-06-24

Fair-Trade Organic Ceylon Tea : a change for the better

Ceylon Green tea has proven to be more than just a refreshing drink, but does it hold all the health benefits as claimed?

Although most of Ceylon tea products, in the global market, originate from large scale tea plantations, a growing number of tea small holders are seeking to carve their own niche in producing the world's best fair-trade organic tea.

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Emerging Markets of Ceylon Tea

2015-06-22

Emerging Markets of Ceylon Tea

Ceylon Tea suppliers are expanding into new markets

With some of the world's traditional tea markets under the spell of Ceylon Tea, time has come for Ceylon Tea manufacturers to explore new markets and capture new hearts.

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Gourmet Ceylon Tea: the best of Ceylon Tea experience

2015-06-18

Gourmet Ceylon Tea: the best of Ceylon Tea experience

The best of Ceylon Tea, hand-picked and processed with extreme care is designed to deliver the most exclusive tea experiences across the world.

The finest of the tea flavours and their blends were a well- kept secret in the Chinese Royal court and their betrayal was so big a crime, that it was punished with death and torture. However, most of these tea blends are being manufactured in Sri Lanka today, with greater flavour and aroma, compared to their predecessors.

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Ceylon Tea based Tourism promises huge growth potential

2015-06-17

Ceylon Tea based Tourism promises huge growth potential

Ceylon Tea and Tourism are among Sri Lanka's top five foreign income earners and their combination is tipped to create a unique experience as refreshing as a cup of Ceylon Tea. Thus, Ceylon Tea & Tourism make perfect partners to tango.

With a rich heritage and a cultural mix distinctive to Sri Lankan tea production and a breath taking view at every turn, Ceylon tea gardens are a great tourist destination yet to be harnessed to their fullest.

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'Garments without Guilt' from Sri Lankan Apparel Manufacturers & Suppliers

2015-06-08

'Garments without Guilt' from Sri Lankan Apparel Manufacturers & Suppliers

In a post-quota era, where competition with mass garment manufacturers is destructive to the workforce as well as to the industry, Sri Lankan garment manufacturers have reinvented themselves as environment friendly, ethical employers of labour.

With the ending of the global quota system in apparels in the year 2005, Sri Lankan garment manufactures were faced with two extreme options. The first was to compete with global giants in mass garment manufacturing in India, Bangladesh, Vietnam and China and the second was to go for a less competitive yet highly risky option of re-branding themselves as eco-friendly and labour friendly producers of quality garments.

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Processing of Ceylon Cinnamon : Age -old traditions rooted in a colourful history

2015-06-05

Processing of Ceylon Cinnamon : Age -old traditions rooted in a colourful history

The soft, golden coloured and delicate cigar like rolls of Ceylon Cinnamon has long been an essential part of world cuisine and herbal medication yet claims its' origin to the humble cinnamon groves in the Western coast of Sri Lanka.

Although Sri Lanka is mostly celebrated for its' Ceylon Tea, Cinnamon has been among its top exports during the past centuries and most of the world's colonial powers had waged long and gory battles over the monopoly of Ceylon Cinnamon export.

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Delve into the History of Ceylon Tea Plantation, Production &  Supply

2015-06-04

Delve into the History of Ceylon Tea Plantation, Production & Supply

True to the observations made by one of world's best thriller writers, the rise of Ceylon Tea Industry in Sri Lanka and the lush Ceylon Tea plantations stands witness to the indomitable courage shown by a group of pioneering tea planters, who chose to grow tea, when life threw lemon at them.

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Flavoured Ceylon Tea : Relish Ceylon Tea with Tantalizing Novel Flavours

2015-06-03

Flavoured Ceylon Tea : Relish Ceylon Tea with Tantalizing Novel Flavours

With a view to attract new admirers for Ceylon Tea, Sri Lankan Tea manufactures are blending in novel flavours with traditional tea.

As the world seeks to blend and modify older version of food and beverages to suit millennials' palates, Sri Lankan tea exporters are experimenting with traditional flavours of Ceylon tea, combining various tea types with flavours of fruits, spices and flowers to suit emerging tea markets around the world.

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Ceylon Tea : the most eco-friendly tea in the world

2015-06-01

Ceylon Tea : the most eco-friendly tea in the world

With the phasing out of Methyl Bromide, a broad range pesticide used in tea cultivation, harmful to the ozone layer, there has never been a better time to enjoy a cup of refreshing & ozone friendly Ceylon Tea.

A long term research into improving the environment sustainability of the Sri Lankan tea industry bore fruits, when Sri Lankan tea planters were awarded the 'Ozone Friendly' status as a world first, for discontinuing the use of Methyl Bromide as a pesticide in local tea plantations.

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Is Ceylon Green Tea the Secret Elixir of Life?

2015-05-28

Is Ceylon Green Tea the Secret Elixir of Life?

Tea is the most consumed beverage in the world next to water and as per today, global consumption of tea amounts to trillion cups a year. While most of these cups amounts to black tea, the rising star of the global tea scene is green tea, with nearly 15% of the global market share.

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