Pepper

Pepper is the dried berry of Piper Nigrum. This vine, which can grow up to ten feet tall, is indigenous to Asia. Pepper is actually a berry that is picked about nine months after flowering. Black Pepper, the spiciest, are the berries that are picked unripe. The berries used for White Pepper are ripened on the vine and soaked so that their outer skin is easily removed. Dried ground pepper has been used since antiquity for both its flavor...

Categories: History, Pepper, Spices

Clove

The Clove tree (Caryophylus C.) is an evergreen which grows to a height ranging from 8 to 12m, having large square leaves and sanguine flowers in numerous groups of terminal clusters. The flower buds are at first of a pale color and gradually become green, after which they develop into bright red, when they are ready for collecting. Cloves are harvested when 1.5 to 2 cm long, and consist of a long calyx, terminating in four spreading...

Categories: Clove, History, Spices

TEA AND HEALTH

Tea and Health  The function of tea and natural, bioactive compounds in tea, as elements in a healthy lifestyle is best explained by the first line in Kakuzo Okakura’s 1906 philosophical treatise on tea, The Book of Tea. Okakura sums up the historical and ancient belief in tea as more than just a pleasing beverage by writing, “Tea began as a medicine and grew into a beverage…”  Scientific research confirms what Asians believed...

Categories: Health Tips, Tea

How to Differentiate Between Ceylon and Cassia Cinnamon

Cinnamon is one of those herbs which have been used in the traditional treatments and medicines for a wide range of ailments since ancient times. Among many other remedies and combination, cinnamon and honey is one of the most useful, effective and easy to use home remedies for several conditions. You need to pay attention to a very important fact that all cinnamon is no good. Most people do not know it. There is a lot of discussion...

Categories: Cinnamon, Health Tips

The Healing Benefits of CINNAMON & HONEY

Folk remedies have been around a long time for a very good reason-- they work! Here is another for the folks: CINNAMON & HONEY Honey is the only food on the planet that will not spoil or rot. It will do what some call turning to sugar.  Never boil honey or put it in a microwave. To do so will kill the enzymes in the honey. Make sure your honey is untreated, unprocessed and not heated, in other words get as raw as possible. This...

Categories: Cinnamon, Drink, Health Tips

True Ceylon Cinnamon

"True Ceylon Cinnamon" is a derivative from the bark of the aromatic perennial tree, Cinnamomum Zeylanicum, native to Sri Lanka. Cinnamon has held the world under its power of fragrance and natural therapeutic properties for over centuries.. Since the 16th century, True Cinnamon has been produced and conserved in its original nature in Sri Lanka, an island known as the pearl of the Indian Ocean. Scientifically it has been revealed that...

Categories: Cinnamon, Grade