What is nutmeg powder made from?
What is nutmeg power exactly? Before we can answer that we need to know what nutmeg is. Nutmeg is a spice made from the seed […]
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Star anise looks great but what exactly is it?
What exactly is star anise? Star anise is a spice made from the fruit of the Chinese evergreen tree Illicium verum. The flavour of star […]
What are cumin seeds and what are they used for?
The spice cumin is made from the dried seed of the Cuminum cyminum plant which is a member of the parsley family. It is a […]
What are some of the health benefits of cloves?
What are cloves? Where do they come from? And what are the benefits of cloves? For starters, cloves come from the flower buds of the […]
Find out more about the benefits and uses for ginger.
Ginger is a flowering plant whose rhizome ginger root is used as a spice. Ginger is in the Zingiberaceae family which includes turmeric cardamom and […]
What is cardamom? Want to learn more, read on.
What is cardamom? It is a spice made from the seeds of pods from various plants in the ginger family. There are two main types, […]
