Spices are the part of our everyone daily life. We eat spices in every single food and without spices food does not get right taste. Spices were used as medicinal purposes in ancient times and also used to mask unpleasant smell of food. Slowly its been started using as Preservatives.
As time had passed, Spices were started using in food to give better taste and health benefits. In that Era, Spices were pounded with Mortar and Pestle, where 2-3 people used to pound spices in Mortar, that method help to keep the original taste, color & smell. Also this method help to preserve spices for longer time. Till date in some villages we can see the same methods of preparation.
That is the traditional way of making Spices which keeps the 100% natural Taste, also you don't need to add any flavours, spice extracts, color & Preservatives. Same thing has been transferred into POUNDING MACHINE. Pouding machine works exactly like Pestle and Mortar. This traditional way takes good amount of time to manufacture the spices powder but this gives the best taste, helps to preserves masala for longer, Color never get fed and Smell remains as it is.
Nowadays if you see in Market, Branded spices have taken a lead with the help of Marketing & Promotional Ads. Lots & lots of customer prefers the branded spices as they are easily available in retail outlets. For Pounded Spices, People has to spend the sometimes a day to get it prepare.
In Henceforth people are not even differentiating in Spices & branded spices. Most of the companies use GRINDING MACHINE to powder the spices for producing Bulk quantity. Grinding machine reduces the manufacturing time and product bulk quantity that definitely hampers the QUALITY of the spices and need to add Artificial agents for Taste, Color, Smell or for Preservation