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Yes but the coloring is easier to visually detect on the whole root, versus the powder (according to article). If you see bright yellow whole turmeric at a stor
by ashwinsundar 1y ago
Yes but the coloring is easier to visually detect on the whole root, versus the powder (according to article). If you see bright yellow whole turmeric at a store, run away!
FYI real, fresh turmeric is a dull orange color with a tan papery skin. It still stains the hands and cutting board when chopped, but that's normal. As the root dries, it turns a dull yellow-orange.
- OJFord 1y agoI know; it stains teeth and toothbrushes too, requiring a mad amount of brushing and mouthwash to get approximately nowhere. ('My friend' hasn't bought it fresh since!)
- OJFord 1y agoAnd @dead commenter, yes I'm well aware it's botanically a rhizome, just like ginger. Colloquially, even culinarily, that's not common and it's not particularly helpful to say, many people not knowing what it is, and it's certainly not an important distinction to make here. I also know tomatoes are fruits, but in the comment section on the importance of eating fruits it would hardly be helpful to give as an example 'yes it's very important to eat plenty of fruit, such as tomato' - it's needlessly confusing when 'apple' would suffice.
- account42 1y agoIs there even any chase outside botany where rhizome vs. root is a meaningful distinction? At least tomatoes are sometimes treated as culinary fruit.
- OJFord 1y agoI cook a great deal and they could all be classified as fruits for all I care, I'm still going to use them for their flavours/properties which means probably none of them going in a fruit salad. No, I think it matters about as much as whether python is statically or dynamically typed to a user of an API.
- AStonesThrow 1y ago[dead]
- account42 1y agoI wouldn't call the color of fresh turmeric "dull".