Coriander Seed

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     Freddi Abatti Companies grow and harvest Coriander Seed in the low desert of Imperial Valley, California. Coriander Seed is a global favorite as a spice and is used in salads. Also known as Cilantro or Chinese Parsley, Coriander Seed is an annual herb and all parts of the seed is edible. Coriander Seed is grown, harvested and cleaned in both whole seed and split seed. Demand for Coriander Seed continues to increase on a worldwide basis. 

     Besides being used as an ingredient in cooking and salads, Coriander Seed has been used by the USDA Cooperative Extension Service in the Salinas Valley of California as a flowering plant for aphid control. The USDA’s studies have used the Coriander plant as an organic method to control aphids which have been one of the worst pests in lettuce fields. Coriander is intercropped with the lettuce plants and is allowed to flower to attract beneficial hoverflies, whose larvae of which eat up to 150 aphids per day before they mature into flying adults.

     Thus, Coriander not only is used in the world’s cooking menus but is being used to reduce pest damage in an environmentally safe manner.