Nutmeg is a kind of spice, which is made by grinding the seeds of nutmeg into powder.

The spice has a unique spicy fragrance, and the taste is moist and slightly sweet. It is used to flavor all kinds of baked goods, sweets, puddings, potatoes, meat, sausages, sauces, vegetables and eggnog. Seeds will gradually dry in the sun within six to eight weeks. During this period, nutmeg shrinks from the hard seed coat until the nucleolus rattles when it shakes in the shell. Then break the shell with a wooden stick and take out the nutmeg.

Characteristics of nutmeg

Most of the surface of nutmeg will have a layer of white lime powder or talcum powder. However, its surface is grayish brown or light brown, and its texture is hard and not easy to break. After fracture, the cross section has light brown and brown interlaced stripes and marble texture.

Nutmeg kernel is rich in oil, with a strong aromatic smell, delicious, cool and slightly bitter. Chew it in your mouth for a while and it will melt. Nutmeg used as medicine should be big, strong and smooth. Modern science has found that nutmeg contains a lot of volatile oil, mainly dextran, myristic acid, myristic ether and other substances.

Reference to the above content: Baidu Encyclopedia-Nutmeg