What gives our spices their unique taste, flavour, colour and rich aroma? Spices contain natural essential oils, which when released, give them their distinct flavour, aroma and scent. When spices are grounded, often the enormous heat generated in this process causes their Important essential oils to evaporate, leaving the powder blend.

Cryogenic grinding reduces the material to particle sizes, which is difficult to attain with ambient temperature grinding in conventional grinding plants. The dry, cold, inert atmosphere, usually generated by a Liquid nitrogen vapor blanket or circulation in the grinder chamber, minimizes thermal reaction with the material and reduces the loss of volatile components from spices.

Cryogenic grinding, where spices are cooled to -1 to -190°C, using liquid nitrogen gas before they are ground, ensures that the essential oils and nutrients in them, remain intact. This process helps spice powder to grind and create a finer texture, along retaining the essential oils, nutrients,colour, aroma and flavour.

Cryo-grinding technology is new to India, which necessitates import of technology from developed countries like Japan and Germany. Cryogenic grinding reduces the material to particle sizes, which is difficult to attain with ambient temperature grinding in conventional grinding plants. The dry, cold, inert atmosphere, usually generated by a Liquid nitrogen vapor blanket or circulation in the grinder chamber, minimizes thermal reaction with the material and reduces the loss of volatile components from spices during processing.