Property News · April 16, 2017

Grow your own herbs and spices


There’s nothing as fragrant and tasty as freshly cut fennel, coriander and chamomile, and cultivating them couldn’t be easierOf all homegrown crops, to me no others have a more stark “night and day” flavour difference than that of fresh herbs. This is because the aromatic compounds that give these plants their characteristic flavour are constantly evaporating off the surfaces of their leaves, wafting into the air around them. This is precisely the reason why we can smell them, but it also means cut herbs are constantly losing their scent in the journey from farm to fork.In one recent trial on coriander, after a week or so of storage the cut leaves had lost the vast majority of these fragrant chemicals. The researchers – investigating how to extend shelf life in supermarket herbs – highlighted the fact that the coriander still looked cosmetically perfect as a positive thing. Continue reading…

Source : theguardian.com
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