Cardamom’s Nature

Cardamom is a spice which comes from the seed pod of plants in the ginger family. Malter Group offers green cardamom (Elettaria cardamomom), which is considered true cardamom. This is the more common variety, grown in tropical areas such as India, Malysia, Costa Rica, and Tanzania where peak season is during the rainy period of March to April and October to November. As one of the highest valued spices in the world, cardamom is referred to as “Queen of Spices”.

Uses of Cardamom

In culinary, cardamom is used in both sweet and savoury dishes, offering a peppery, citrusy, sweet taste with a bittersweet aroma. It also provides multiple health benefits, such as treating digestive problems, nausea, and heartburn, and is a good antioxidant with plenty of vitamins.

Cinnamon’s Nature

Cinnamon is the inner dried stem bark, where true cinnamon and cassia are two main types of cinnamon that are used as spices. Bushes in nature, cinnamon plants are grown in tropical Asia and are exotic plants in African countries, including Comoros, Madagascar, Seychelles, and Tanzania, with semi-dried to wet weather climates in 20-30 degree Celcius temperature.

Cinnamon is commercially used as quills, chips, powder, and oil. Cinnamon bark is more commonly used than cinnamon leaf as a popular spice, which offers a rich fragrance and warm, pleasant taste in culinary.

Uses of Cinnamon

Due to cinnamon’s aromatic scent and taste, it has a wide range of uses in culinary as a sweet spice for flavoring baked goods and liquors. Cinnamon is also used in cosmetics and perfumery.

Its antibacterial, antiseptic, and anti-fungal properties also make it a good source for medicinal products, by helping to lower blood sugar and regulate blood pressure and aiding in digestive problems. Due to its ability to fight bacteria, you may find cinnamon as an ingredient in toothpaste, mouth wash and oral hygiene products.

Clove’s Nature

Cloves are the pink aromatic flowers of the tree belonging to the Myrtaceae family, cultivated in well-drained, nutrient-rich, moist soil in high temperatures with good sunlight and rainfall. The unopened flower buds are air-dried in the sun for several days for commercial use, including culinary, medicinal.

Uses of Cloves

In culinary, cloves offer a warm, sweet, aromatic taste that blends with both sweet and savory dishes. Clove also has antiseptic and antibiotic properties as a rich essential oil or when produced as toothpaste, soap, and perfumes.

Essential Oils

Malter Group essential oils extend our product line of high quality, organic spices in our supply chain, further processed to produce value-added, premium-grade essential oils through a steam distillation facility.

Clove (bud, stem, leaf), cinnamon (bar, leaf), black pepper, and lemon grass essential oils will be launched in 2019. For more information about our essential oil product range, please feel free to contact us through the contact form below.