Cardamom and nutmeg difference is:

1, cardamom that is, cardamom, which is common with nutmeg, nutmeg are cooking spices, as all three with the word "cardamom", so it is easy to be misunderstood. Easily misunderstood. Cardamom, also known as cardamom, etc., for the ginger plant, round cardamom dried fruit.

2, cardamom shape is rounded spherical, with unremarkable obtuse three-pronged, creamy white or yellowish surface, the pericarp is woody and brittle, easy to crack longitudinally, the inner wall of the light color and slightly glossy, the seeds have twenty or thirty. Cardamom smell bitter aroma, taste pungent and slightly bitter, cooking can remove the odor, increase the pungent aroma, commonly used in brine as well as hot pot and so on.

3, nutmeg, also known as nutmeg, jade fruit, commonly known as nutmeg, it is the nutmeg family evergreen tree nuts, this nutmeg is the fruit harvest, first peeled nutmeg clothing (nutmeg clothing is also more common for the spice), crushed hard shells and take the kernel, placed in lime water impregnation, and then dried and obtained.

4, nutmeg oval shape, about 3 cm long, about 2 cm wide, gray or gray-yellow surface, the whole has a divergence of the smooth lines, wrinkles outside the hanging white frost, hard and unbreakable texture, after breaking open the brown and yellow marble-like pattern. Nutmeg can be used directly in the system of brine, can also be removed after processing into powder use.