Tulsi Supari Overview
In Pakistan, people love to eat and love to chew; there must be something always going on. One is happy, sad, distressed, worried, or just plain mad. Food is the answer, and everything is resolved if you can sit over a meal and talk it out or gut it out; the solution will come eventually. If you already full, there are few after meal condiments you can have. Tulsi supari is one universal ever present such condiment. Students have it, office workers love it, girls bond over it, kids fight over it, it is one common memory everyone in Pakistan seem to have, ask them to relate to it and you will never come empty handed.
When you want to keep yourself busy, or just a refreshing company while you are already occupied, you know what is your best choice. Tulsi supari has been something of a cliche with young kids with its advertisement focusing on young kids and romantic couples. It was like the modern-day folk song, you become obsessed with it and then forget out, and someday of the blue, you remember it again, and you are back to enjoying it.
With all the different kinds of suparis available in the market like Bombay supari, shahi supari with the basic term being raseeli supari, Tulsi supari was a delicate balance between something healthy, nutritious and otherworldly taste. Though often used as a mouth freshener right before meeting an important person and after having a hearty meal, time is of no meaning when it comes to having tulsi supari. A crystal bowl full of Tulsi supari in any house makes it a dream home.
It's ingredients which gives an aroma of freshness and purity with a unique earthly touch are betel nuts, dry dates, aniseed, cardamoms, an essential oil with some natural and artificial flavors. Supari often referred to betel nuts have always been a medical concern due to its side effects when eaten in large amount with some added flavors, but tulsi supari meetha pan masala has it in balance check by adding natural and more beneficial ingredients to it like dates and cardamom while aniseed is responsible for its flavor of freshness. Well, have it moderately, and you will have not an issue as you cannot eat it alone to fill your belly, no matter how much you want to and that is why parents are often found conditioning their kids on the intake of Tulsi supari, but often they too succumb to its lure.
Tulsi supari can act as an excellent mouth freshener, but that is not all it accounts to. You can pop one in your mouth whenever you feel like awakening your senses with a good chew.