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Food Glossary

of Confused Food Terms

Niger seeds

If you go to Amazon, you will find it listed as:

 

Karale/Karal/Ramtil/Blackseed/Surguja/Valesulu/Payellu/Niger seeds/रामतिल/Guizotia Abyssinica

 

 Called Ramtil in Sanskrit -- obviously because they look like black til...well, not really, but in a way.