Cardamom as a whole. Cardamom as a seasoning, can remove odors, increase the pungent aroma. For the production of meat sauce, but also for the Worcestershire sauce (Worcestershire sauce) one of the raw materials. Cardamom powder is used to make desserts, such as pudding (Pudding) and chocolate (Chocolate) and so on.

The seed kernel contains volatile oil, present in the endosperm, containing myristic ether (Myristicin), eugenol (Eugeno1), camphorene (Camphene) and glycerol myristate (Myristin) and so on.

Expanded Information

Myristin Distribution

Native to Indonesia, Malaysia, the West Indies and Brazil. China's Guangdong, Yunnan and other provinces have introduced cultivation.

Harvesting and processing: twice a year in summer and fall to collect the mature fruit, cut open the pericarp, peel off the aril, and then chiseled through the shell-like seed coat, the seed kernel into the milk of lime immersion for a day, and then low-temperature drying. Also processed and ground into powder. The aril cardamom petals are also ground as a spice.

Use Part: The dried seed kernel and aril of nutmeg, Myristicaceae.

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