ORGANIC Black cumin seeds

Organic Black Cumin Seeds

Ölmühle Solling offers you fully ripened Egyptian Black Cumin Seeds from organic cultivation. Black cumin seeds (Nigella sativa) are characterised by their intense, spicy, peppery flavour.

Valuable ingredients

Black cumin seeds are rich in essential, double unsaturated linoleic acid. Linoleic acid helps maintain normal blood cholesterol levels. Black cumin is also rich in essential oils and bitter and tannic acids such as nigellin and thymoquinone. These give black cumin its distinctly intense, typical flavour, but also explain the popularity of black cumin oil for a variety of applications in folk medicine.

Black cumin as a plant

Black cumin (Nigella sativa) is a member of the buttercup family and is not related to caraway. The seeds are small, angular and, as the name suggests, black.

Origin and history

Black cumin was once known in this country as "bread root" and grew in many farm gardens before it was forgotten. An anecdote has it that Martin Luther, when translating the Bible from the Hebrew, omitted the crucial word "black" before "cumin" at a crucial point in the spice's meaning, thus contributing to misunderstandings. Be that as it may, it is certain that black cumin was widespread in Egypt and surrounding countries at the time of the Pharaohs and was used for a variety of purposes (the preferred varieties still grow in Egypt today).

Carbon neutral packaging

We pack our organic black cumin seeds in CO2 neutral, sustainable bags. These are made from over 80% renewable resources. We are particularly pleased that the bags are aluminium-free. A large proportion of the polymers commonly used are replaced by renewable raw materials, such as paper from sustainable forestry (FSC certified). The bags are manufactured in Europe under controlled social conditions. The light-protected, environmentally friendly packaging can be resealed after initial opening, protecting the flavour and quality of our black cumin seeds.