Turmeric used in cooking across the globe in various dishes is world's best known anti-cancer superfood. This presentation gives an overview on the same and enlisted a few dishes for healthy non-cancerous life on the occasion of "World No Tobacco Day"
5. Turmeric
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Antiquity dates back to the Assyrians of 600
B.C.
It is believed that crop spread from India to
distant Asian countries
It spread to China in A.D. 700
6. Turmeric
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Crop spread to West Africa – 13th century
East Africa – 17th century
Introduced in Jamaica in 1783
Now spread everywhere around the world