Caraway fruit have a strong spicy aroma and pungent bitter-spicy taste . The seeds are used for medicinal purposes indiseases of the gastrointestinal tract, and as a spice in cooking when pickling herring, pickled cucumbers and tomatoes, sauerkraut, smoked sausages, in the preparation of home-baked . Cumin - biennial plant, moisture - and loves the sunshine, cold-resistant .