The Spice Islands produce cloves, pepper, nutmeg and ginger.

Indonesia is the world's largest producer of cloves. The main producers are the islands of Maluku and Ambon. The essential oil extracted from cloves has been medically proven to have a curative effect on toothache, as well as reducing acne and hair loss.

Pepper is mainly used for its fruit. There are two types of pepper: white pepper and black pepper. In addition to being used as a seasoning, pepper also has medicinal properties. Such as diarrhea, cold and flu, etc. It can also drive away cold.

Nutmeg was the main target of Europeans centuries ago. Currently Indonesia is the third largest exporter of nutmeg. America also uses nutmeg as a seasoning and perfume ingredient.

Indonesia has become the world's largest producer of ginger. Ginger is often used to ward off cold or for other treatments. The colonizers of the time also vigorously developed the land to grow ginger.

Fragrance:

Fragrance is a collective term for spices (sometimes called fragrance ingredients) and flavorings. In a narrower sense, it does not include flavors.

Fragrance is a kind of can be smell smell smell or taste taste out of the substance, it may be a kind of "single", it may be a kind of "mixture". According to the production method or raw materials can be divided into "natural flavors" and "synthetic flavors" two categories.

Spices have a long history, dating back 5,000 years. Huangdi Shennong's time, there are collected bark, grass roots as medicine supplies to ward off the disease to avoid obscenity.

At that time, human beings already attached great importance to the aroma of the plants volatilized, and added the aroma of the flowers in nature, and became interested in it. Therefore, in ancient times, these fragrant substances were used to honor the gods and worship blessings, purify the body and mind, and were also used in rituals and funerals. Later, it was gradually used for food, decoration and beauty.