Turmeric (Curcuma longa) is a rhizomatous herbaceous perpetual plant of the ginger family, Zingiberaceae which is local to tropical South Asia. It needs temperatures somewhere around 20°C and 30°C, and a lot of yearly precipitation to flourish.  

Its rhizomes are bubbled for a few hours and after that dried in hot stoves, after which they are ground into a profound orange yellow powder ordinarily utilized as a zest as a part of curries and other South Asian and Middle Eastern food, for coloring, and to confer shading to mustard fixings. Its dynamic fixing is curcumin and it has a gritty, severe, peppery flavor and a mustard like smell.

Sangli, a town in the southern piece of the Indian condition of Maharashtra, is the biggest and most imperative exchanging place for turmeric in Asia or maybe in the whole world. In non Indian formulas, Turmeric is once in a while utilized as a shading specialists. It has discovered application in canned drinks, prepared items, dairy items, dessert, yogurt, yellow cakes squeezed orange, rolls, popcorn shading, desserts, cake icings, grains, sauces, gelatins, and so forth. It is a critical fixing in most business curry powders.