Fresh Is Best. No matter how many mugs it takes you to wake up in the morning, your personal coffee turnover isn't going to be nearly equal to that of your local coffee shop, which means your beans are probably a bit longer in the tooth than the cafe's are on any given day.
Sesame seeds, despite their tiny size, are a valuable cash crop. They come from the Sesamum Indicum plant, which is native to Africa but is now found mostly throughout Asia, with Myanmar and India the largest producers.
Sesame seeds come in many colours, the most traded variety of sesame is off-white coloured. Other common colours are buff, tan, gold, brown, reddish, gray and black. History. Sesame seeds history as a medicine goes back 3600 years to Egyptian times where it was listed in the scrolls of the Ebers as a favoured medicine.