So before we get into the process of making the powder, we need to discuss the importance of discerning good turmeric from most of what is available on the market. Conventional, non-organic turmeric is grown with pesticides and other chemicals that are unnatural and your body is unable to metabolise them. Non-organic turmeric is also routinely irradiated, supposedly to ensure that the food is ‘safe’ from food-borne pathogens, but in truth, food irradiation is a practice that hasn’t been done on a large scale for long enough for us to know what the long term consequences to our health may be. Irradiating food does create a lot of free radicals within the food itself, and although it may destroy pathogens, it also creates toxins and destroys a lot of the nutrient value. This is far from ideal and while it may increase shelf life it is more in alignment with corporate profits than your health.