• Botanical Name: Zingiber Officinale
• Family: Zingiberaceae
• Flowering and fruiting:
• Parts Used: Rhizomes
• Distribution: It is cultivated from almost sea level to an altitude of 1500 m above MSL either under heavy rainfall conditions (150-300 cm/year) or under irrigation.
• Method of Extraction: Steam Distillation

Description:

Ginger is a flowering plant whose rhizome, ginger root or simply ginger, is widely used as a spice or a folk medicine.Nepal is the third largest producer of Ginger in the world.

Specification of Ginger
1. Organoleptic Properties
Appearance	Light yellow clear oil
Color	Light yellow
Aroma	Characteristic, ginger, warm, spicy
2. Physico-chemical Properties
Specific gravity	0.870-0.882
Optical rotation	-45 to -28 degree at 25 degree
Refractive index	1.488-1.494
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