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The Shikakai leaves of this woody plant are bipinnate. It has yellow flowers with anxillary heads. The pods are brown, wrinkled and notched when dry. There are 6 to 10 seeds in a pod usually. These days it is commercially cultivated in India and Far East Asia. Shikakai acts as an natural astringent for hair enhancing as it consists binding properties. It is therefore more beneficial to people as contrasted to those chemical filled shampoo available in the market.

Mango powder is a spice made by grinding dried mango. The powder preserves the acidic, tart and spicy flavour of unripe mangoes. The mango tree is a member of the family that includes the cashew and pistachio nut. India is one of the largest producers and consumers of Mango Powder. Andhra Pradesh and Uttar Pradesh are one of the major amchoor or mango powder producing Indian states. The dried slices are light brown with a rough surface. Ripe mango slices are also dries and are orange brown. Amchur powder is finely ground but with a slightly fibrous texture. It is beige in colour. Bouquet Sour- sweet, warm and slightly resinous.

The organic honey, collected from honey bee areas carefully selected for their organic crops and wild flora, is remarkable for its intensity and its warm flavour of liquorice and toffee. The main uses of honey are in cooking, baking, as a spread on bread, and as an addition to various beverages, such as tea, and as a sweetener in some commercial beverages. Honey barbecue and honey mustard are common and popular sauce flavors. Honey and beeswax are used in the beauty industry to soften and heal the skin tissue and help attract moisture to the skin. Most lipsticks are made with a beeswax base. Honey can be used in making effective facials.

Masoor is probably the most commonly used Daal in India. Masoor are sold in many forms, with or without the skins, whole or split. Masoor dal is probably the most commonly used Daal in India. It is basically the split lentil without skin and is red in color. It does not need soaking prior to cooking as it is a \"soft\" Daal and cooks quickly. When Cooked Masoor dal turns a soft golden color.

Cashew nuts are actually the kidney-shaped seeds that adhere to the bottom of the cashew apple, the fruit of the cashew tree. Cashews are always sold shelled because the interior of the shells contains a caustic resin, known as cashew balm, which must be carefully removed before the nuts are fit for consumption. This caustic resin is actually used in industry to make varnishes and insecticides. In confectionery and bakery products, for example, finely chopped kernels are used in the production of sweets, ice creams, cakes and chocolates, both at home and industrially, and as paste to spread on bread. It is used as roasted and salted nuts. Cashew nuts are significant sources of iron (essential for red blood cell function and enzyme activity It is a raw material of multiple uses in developing drugs, antioxidants, fungicides, etc. It is used in tropical folk medicine and for anti-termite treatment of timber.