Herbs and Spices

Ginger 

Ginger plants


Ginger is a rhizome plant. Ginger rhizome shaped fingers that bulge in the middle sections. The dominant spicy taste is due to a ketone compound called zingeron. Ginger is very popular as a spice and medicinal ingredient.

 

 Curcuma Domestica Rhizoma

Used as a spice, cosmetics, and traditional medicine.

 

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