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[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago (1 children)

From the name, I would have assumed that curcumin is in Kurkuma, not in Turmeric

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 months ago

Kurkuma/curcuma is the name of this plant in latin, french, german, spanish, slavic languages, arabic and few others, it's the english who named it weird (it's zerdeçal in turkish, similar in some turkic languages and haldi or similar in some languages of india)