This is one caraway seed, taken from a bag containing thousands exactly alike. Consistently perfect in shape and flavour, they have conquered the world of bakeries, food, drink and spices industry – and many others.
How do we ensure the quality?
World's largest caraway producer
This is one caraway seed, taken from a bag containing thousands exactly alike. Consistently perfect in shape and flavour, they have conquered the world of bakeries, food, drink and spices industry – and many others.
How do we ensure the quality?
Located in Finland, our caraway fields enjoy the sun that shines day and night in the summer. It ripens the seeds particularly aromatic and rich in essential oil. The cool climate also helps to reduce the need for pesticides.
The adverse effects of monoculture are avoided by using effective crop rotation. Caraway actually improves the soil for other crops. With our optimized farming methods in the clean Nordic environment, we can ensure the purest end product with high oil content and low microbiological content, even size and colour as well as consistent quality.
Effective
crop rotation
preserving the soil
The backbone of our production is the network of contract farmers. Educated, professional and dedicated, they utilize the latest technology and continuously increase their know-how on caraway farming.
Nordic Caraway works in close collaboration with several agricultural research centres to further optimize the production and spread the knowledge. We also keep in touch with our contract farmers with regular training days, meetings and a monthly newsletter.
Most of the farmers
met and educated personally every year
in different occasions and training days
The perfect seed came from the production lines of Nordic Caraway processing plants, where each seed is individually sorted and selected. Specialized to clean and process only caraway seeds and boasting state-of-the-art equipment not found anywhere else, these highly specialized plants are the world’s largest caraway seed producers and processors.
Caraway can be found in a wide variety of products from foods to toothpaste. Breads, spice mixtures, sausages, cheeses, sauerkraut, even alcoholic beverages, fragrances and medicines – the aromatic caraway has many uses. It can be crushed or ground, distilled into oil or used as whole seeds. Whatever your need, Nordic Caraway can provide you with the highest quality caraway product.
Uniform in shape, weight, colour and flavour, our seeds are packed in 5 to 25 kg (10 to 50 lbs) bags and sold in quantities of 3 to 24 metric tons. The seeds can be Safesteril® steam sterilized for absolute microbiological purity.
Whole caraway seeds are used most commonly in bakery industry, spices, cheeses, sauerkraut and also in distillation industry for alcoholic beverages.
Because our milling line only grinds caraway seeds, we can ensure the purest ground caraway with no foreign smells or flavours. The caraway can be crushed or ground exactly to your specific particle size distribution.
Ground caraway is used mainly in bakery products and sausages.
Our caraway essential oil is gently distilled from oil-rich Nordic seeds in a modern steam distillation plant using no additives.
Caraway oil is used in cosmetics, food flavouring, sausages, marinades, vinegars and animal fodder, for example.
Uniform in shape,
weight, colour, and
flavour
Production line only
handles caraway
From contract farmers to our factory process operators, the people working for Nordic Caraway are dedicated to high quality caraway. We share the values of expertise and innovation as well as tidy and methodological way of working.
Nordic Caraway has the Food Safety System
Certification 22000.
Nordic Caraway products are also available as
certified organic.
Nordic Caraway is the world’s largest caraway producer and processor.
In 2004, Nordic Caraway was founded by two caraway seeds companies Trans Farm Oy and Caraway Finland Oy who went together and shared a common vision: to produce and sell caraway seeds from Finland. At the time, there was no such concept – most of the world’s caraway was produced by Eastern European countries.