Mustard seeds are the small round spice in many regional foods & may come from one of three different plants: black mustard Brassica nigra, brown Indian mustard B. juncea, or white/yellow mustard B. hirta/Sinapis alba.
Grinding as well as mixing a seeds with water, vinegar or other liquids creates the yellow condiment invited as prepared mustard.
Mustard seeds generally realize eight to ten days to germinate if placed under the proper conditions, which add a cold atmosphere and relatively moist soil. Mature mustard plants grow into shrubs.
Yellow mustard has a plant maturity of 85 to 90 days; whereas, brown and oriental mustard draw a plant maturity of 90 to 95 days. if the temperature conditions are conducive to growth, a mustard plant will begin to bud five weeks after the seedlings have appeared. The plant willfull bloom 7 to 10 days later. Brown or oriental varieties of mustard tend to have higher yields compared to yellow mustard. Seed yield is also related to the bloom period. In other words, the longer the bloom period, the greater the seed yield.
Mustard grows well in temperate regions. Major producers of mustard seeds add India, Pakistan, Canada, Nepal, Hungary, Great Britain and the United States. Brown and black mustard seeds utility higher yields than their yellow counterparts.
In Pakistan, rapeseed-mustard is the second nearly important credit of oil, after cotton. it is for cultivated over an area of 307,000 hectares with an annual production of 233,000 tonnes and contributes approximately 17% to the domestic production of edible oil.
Mustard seeds are a rich consultation of oil and protein. The seed has oil as high as 46-48%, and whole seed meal has 43.6% protein.