FENUGREEK

 Application

• It is used as condiments, as leafy vegetables and used in pickles, salad, curry preparation and used for medicinal purposes.
• Plants are used medicinally in different countries and are a source of many potent and powerful drugs.
• This plant decrease body fats and effective on obesity.
• Fenugreek leaves and seeds are consumed in different countries around the world for different purposes such as medicinal uses (anti-diabetic, lowering blood sugar and cholesterol level, anti-cancer, anti-microbial, etc.), making food (stew with rice in Iran, flavor cheese in Switzerland, syrup and bitter run in Germany, mixed seed powder with flour for making flat bread in Egypt, curries, dyes, young seedlings eaten as a vegetable, etc.), roasted grain as coffeesubstitute (in Africa), controlling insects in grain storages, perfume industries, and etc.
• Fenugreek can be a very useful legume crop for incorporation into short-term rotation and for hay and silage for livestock feed, for fixation of nitrogen in soil and its fertility.
• Fenugreek seeds have been known and valued as medicinal material from very early times.
• Its seeds are considered to be of commercial interest as a source of a steroid diosgenin, which is of importance to the pharmaceutical industry.