Roucou
The roucou ( Bixa orellana ) is a tree or shrub of the areas of tropical America. It is called also urucum , rocouyer or lipstick tree . It draws its name from the language of the Tupis which name it urucu ; in English it names achiote (name drawn from the Nahuatl). It is also cultivated in Asian south-east , where it was introduced by the Spaniards at the 17th century.
Its flowers are pink and it gives red fruits to spines filled with seeds, reds they too.
Its fruit, the rocou (or roucou , annatto , achiote ) is not edible. It is collected then dried to extract from it the wax which surrounds seeds, very rich carotenoids.
Composition
The rocou has a very strong content of Vitamine has (approximately 3,2 G for 100 G), and contains many Sélénium, Magnésium and Calcium.
Use
The autochtones of South America, made use of it like pigment for their body paintings and Aromate.
Traditional medicine lends many healing virtues to him. The rocou is also used as natural sun lotion and makes it possible to avoid the insect bites.
It is currently used like food Colorant (European code E160b). Certain cheeses like the Mimolette, the cheddar, the edam, or the red Leicester, owes him their orange color. The crust of some livarot S is also washed with rocou. It is also one of the ingredients of the recado rojo , a Mexican spiced sauce.
External bonds
- Toil' of spices - Roucou
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