Curcuma Fingers
Author
FAO - AGSLanguage
EnglishDocument Type
Instructional ManualPublisher
FAOPages
4Commodities
spicesYear
2007Document Url
http://www.fao.org/3/a-au146e.pdfThe composition of the secondary rhizome (fingers) it different from the composition of the primary rhizome, mainly due to the curcumin content that is the pigment giving the characteristic yellow-orange color to curcuma. The fingers of the curcuma present a higher curcumin content, a reason why they might have more important applications than the primary rhizome.