Newcastle University scientists have been experimenting with some commonly used curry spices such as cumin, turmeric, cloves, cilantro (coriander), cloves and cinnamon to find out if they reduce the production of methane gasses from sheep.
The scientists created an experiment that simulated sheep’s stomachs and measured the methane that was produced from them.
They found out that the curry spices reduce methane output with the most spectacular reduction of 40% being achieved by using cilantro (coriander).
The UK has 30 million sheep producing 600 million litres of methane each day and so this would translate into a massive reduction in methane emissions.
We don’t imagine that any farmer will feed a curry to their sheep but it’s more than likely that curry spices will be added to the sheep feed in order to cut down on methane produced by their sheep.
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