ForeSights: Ashwagandha - An ancient Indian herb captivating consumers with its claimed nutritive and curative properties

ForeSights: Ashwagandha - An ancient Indian herb captivating consumers with its claimed nutritive and curative properties

Summary

"ForeSights: Ashwagandha" examines the potential of ashwagandha (Withania somnifera) a perennial shrub that is commonly called Indian winter cherry, poison gooseberry, or Indian ginseng. It has been used for centuries as a medicinal herb in Ayurveda, an indigenous system of medicine in India.

Though ashwagandha is a well-known herb in India, it has only beginning to gain recognition in the West for its nutritional, healing and beauty-enhancing properties. Manufacturers can leverage ashwagandha as an ingredient for use in a wide array of functional food and beverages and "natural" beauty and grooming products.

Scope

• By virtue of being naturally rich in nutrients and bioactive compounds, ashwagandha is being hailed as a "superfood," thereby making it a functional ingredient that can endow a "healthy" halo to conventional food and drinks.


• Modern scientific studies are suggesting that ashwagandha could be beneficial for people with certain health conditions, thereby making it more appealing to consumers who perceive food as medicine and try to avert diseases through their diet.

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