All About Turmeric
Buy turmeric online from anywhere in Australia with the convenience of Austral Herbs' extensive catalogue of goods. Spend over $150 across our store and receive free express shipping straight to your door.
Take the time to browse our certified organic turmeric that comes as both root cuttings and a powdered form. Being unprocessed and free from any chemical additions, you can easily transform our products into whatever your business or household needs.
Key Takeaways
- The turmeric range includes certified organic cut root, organic powder, and premium powder, all free from additives and chemical processing.
- Turmeric delivers strong natural benefits thanks to curcumin, supporting inflammation management, joint comfort, digestion, and general wellbeing.
- The spice is versatile and used across cooking, beverages, teas, cosmetics, natural therapy, and fabric dyeing, making it useful in both home and commercial settings.
- Organic turmeric offers higher purity and stronger curcumin levels compared to regular turmeric, making it a better choice for health, flavour, and product quality.
- Products are available in various pack sizes, making it easy to buy small amounts for testing or larger amounts for ongoing production or everyday use.
What is Turmeric?
Known for its iconic golden-orange colour, turmeric is a spice closely related to the ginger family.
Developed from the root of the curcuma longa plant native to parts of Asia, the spice is typically best known for its culinary uses; particularly, in the creation of various curry powders for an enriched taste.
However, in both root and powder form, organic turmeric is believed to offer other creative and health benefits. That's why it's a popular spice even outside of Asia, with many Australians looking to take advantage of its anti-inflammatory properties and bright colours.
Benefits of Turmeric
Academic research has shown that turmeric contains antioxidants and anti-inflammatory properties. This is because of its natural, active compound curcumin, which can be prepared through cooking, tea-brewing, or organic turmeric capsules.
While turmeric provides a range of overall health benefits, its most known to help with the following:
- Bolstering kidney health
- Reducing the pain and stiffness of arthritis in joints
- Management of inflammation, swelling and degenerative eye conditions
- Lowering general pain levels
- Treating metabolic syndrome
- Reduction of high cholesterol levels
- Managing anxiety
- Soothing muscle soreness after exercise
- Supporting digestion, especially for cases of irritable bowel syndrome (IBS)
- Improved heart health
It's best to talk to a trusted health care professional if you're actively using turmeric for its health benefits. However, the spice is rich in other industry uses, especially in providing flavour to food and colourant to cosmetics.
Turmeric can also be combined with other spices, dried herbs and fruits to create new and exciting products. This mixing is best achieved by purchasing turmeric and other ingredients in their organic form.
What Industries Commonly Use Turmeric?
For centuries, countries like India, Thailand, China, and others within tropical Asia have made use of turmeric. With various ways to prepare the plant, its purpose has expanded beyond a simple spice for cooking.
In fact, organic turmeric cuttings and powders can be used as a key ingredient for the following industries and their products:
Culinary
For centuries, the mustard-like taste of turmeric has been desired for savoury and sweet cooking dishes alike. Most commonly, as the main ingredient in curry powder when already refined in powder form.
However, other aspects of the plant, such as the leaves and root cuttings, can be used fresh or dried. Due to its close relation to the ginger family, turmeric is often used in a similar manner, requiring a significant amount of stock for retail shops, local spice markets, and restaurants to keep up with demand.
Turmeric root can also be used as a natural food colour when distilled with water and sugar. The yellow colouration is often added to rice, condiments like mustard, frosting, and other baked goods.
Beverage Making
To enhance the flavour of common beverages, turmeric has become a popular addition in many cafes, restaurants, and other food services offered in Australia. Most notably, the turmeric latte originated from India and is frequently made with coconut milk.
Turmeric is also a regular addition to smoothies and juices for its overall health benefits.
Tea
Much like ginger, turmeric has become a popular active ingredient for many tea blends. It can be made by steeping cuttings of the root, or by making a paste from its powder to eventually add to boiling water.
This tea reflects the iconic golden colour of turmeric, while also providing its believed benefits of anti-inflammatory, antidiabetic, and antioxidant properties. These benefits can be expanded upon along with the tea's flavour profile with the addition of other spices and dried herbs.
Creative
In organic powder form, the spice can also be prepared as a bright yellow or warm orange dye for natural fabrics. The colour may fade over time, but not much powder is needed to remake the dye and apply it to the fabric once more.
While its ease of use makes it a common household tool, turmeric's natural dyeing capabilities make it popular with sustainable clothing brands. The lack of necessary chemicals aligns turmeric dye with many environmentally-friendly values, hence its re-emergence as a popular fashion choice in recent years.
Naturopathy
Over the years, turmeric has been used as a key ingredient in numerous well-being products. For example, organic turmeric capsules are commonly used to deliver the main benefits of the spice to your body.
When given at a medically recommended dosage, turmeric can aid in:
- Reducing inflammation
- Soothing the digestive tract
- Supporting liver function
- Combating oxidative stress
- Lessening joint pain levels and arthritis
- Boosting the immune system
The turmeric plant cuttings can easily be ground down to a certain consistency, or the powder itself packaged with other natural ingredients by naturopaths. Finding the wholesale weight of this spice may be difficult without a reliable provider.
Beauty & Skin Care
For businesses that produce cosmetics and skin care, turmeric is a regular addition to goods. The antioxidant and anti-inflammatory properties have been thought to offer the following benefits when applied as a face mask, moisturiser, or paste:
- Revive the skin's natural glow
- Help in healing wounds and reducing the appearance of scars
- Aid in controlling psoriasis and other breakouts
- Improving hydration levels in your skin
Types of Organic Turmeric Products
At Austral Herbs, we provide a range of organic turmeric products to be purchased in bulk. The different weights of these goods allow you to stock at scale for any number of industry uses.
We suggest you look at our turmeric catalogue to determine which offering is best suited to your needs:
Turmeric Cut Organic
Carefully preserved turmeric root is available pre-cut for your convenience. Free from any additives or chemicals, you can trust in the high quality of this cutting for any industry application.
Turmeric Powder Premium Organic
Refined to create a premium level of curcumin, this organic turmeric powder ensures a potent dosage of antioxidants. Desired for culinary, wellness and cosmetic uses alike, the spicy aroma of this powder is a must-have for many Australians.
Turmeric Powder Organic
Hand-harvested turmeric roots are collected to create this reliable, powdered product. Available in various weights for industry use, the powder doesn't contain any anti-caking agents in order to maintain a pure and natural formulation you can trust in.
Curry Powder Mild Organic
Turmeric is combined with Coriander Seed, Turmeric, Cumin, Yellow Mustard, Fenugreek, and Black Peppercorn (also naturally sourced by us), to create a mild yet flavoursome curry powder. This ready-made mix can be stocked in bulk for immediate and convenient restaurant use.
Curry Powder Hot Organic
Take your spice levels up a notch with this pre-made curry powder. Using not just turmeric, but also Coriander Seed, Cumin, Yellow Mustard, Fenugreek, Black Peppercorn, and Chilli Powder, we take out the hard work of home-made culinary necessities.
Frequently asked questions
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Overall, turmeric is safe to consume in recommended doses, especially in supplement form. However, those with liver or bile duct issues are generally not recommended to consume turmeric due to its potential to increase bile production.
Otherwise, those taking blood thinners or heart medications should talk with their doctor first before taking turmeric supplements.
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Many Australians choose to take a daily dose of turmeric to reduce inflammation and joint pain. The spice may also help boost gut and heart health.
It should be noted, though, that side effects of daily consumption may include nausea, diarrhoea, and potential injury to the liver in excessive dosages.
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Since turmeric naturally works as a type of blood thinner, it's often recommended to avoid taking it with iron supplements. It can interfere with the iron absorption process and increase the risk of bleeding.
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Organic turmeric powder contains no additives or chemicals. This includes its growing and production process, where no GMOs, synthetic pesticides, or fertilisers come into contact with the plant.
This often means organic turmeric is at a higher level of quality when compared to regular turmeric powder. The organic variant is also more likely to naturally contain higher levels of curcumin.
