Our daily cooking requires a lot of spices that are essential to add aroma and flavour to a dish. Spices like garam masala, ginger-garlic paste and hing are few of the most common ingredients we use ...

Before It Affects Taste And Health: Pure asafoetida, or hing, is rare and often adulterated. Consumers can detect fake hing ...

Hing, a zing thing Scoffed at as ‘Devil’s dung’, ‘stinking gum’ and other such uncomplimentary terms across several European cultures, its unsavoury names notwithstanding, there is a tremendous ...

An appetizer or an abhorrent? A medicine or a pesticide? Asafoetida sounds innocent enough – it’s a wild fennel plant native to Afghanistan, Iran and Uzbekistan. The resin from its roots is used in ...

Commonly used in majority of Indian homes, hing (Sanskrit-Hingu, English-Asafoetida and Botanical — Ferula narthrex) is also an important ayurvedic medicine. It is a five to eight feet tall plant and ...