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Nutmeg nutrition facts
Health benefits of nutmeg
Culinary uses
Both nutmeg as well as mace is used in cooking recipes. Mace has delicate flavor and givessaffron like color to the food items. Whole kernels generally preferred over powdered form since they possess more essential oils, which thus, give rich flavor and freshness to recipes. In general, completely dried kernels are either grated or milled just before being added at the last minutes of cooking.
Here are some serving tips:
Medicinal uses
- Pleasantly aromatic, nutmeg is actually seed kernel of fruit-nutmeg. It is one of the highly prized spices known since antiquity for its aromatic, aphrodisiac, and curative properties. Nutmegs are evergreen trees, native to the rain forest Indonesian Moluccas Island; also known as the Spice Islands.
- Botanically, the plant belongs to Myristicaceae family of medium to large trees. Its scientific name is: Myristica fragrans. Besides M. fragrans, several other species of Myristica grown all over the tropical regions including M. argentea, M. malabarica (Indian), and M. fatua. Although they are similar in appearance to M. fragrans, they, however, have less intense flavor and aroma and command less price.
Health benefits of nutmeg
- Nutmeg and mace spice contains many plant-derived chemical compounds that are known to have been anti-oxidant, disease preventing, and health promoting properties.
- The spicy nut contains fixed oil trimyristin and many essential volatile oils such as which gives a sweet aromatic flavor to nutmeg such as myristicin, elemicin, eugenol and safrole. The other volatile-oils are pinene, camphene, dipentene, cineole, linalool, sabinene, safrole, terpeniol.
- The active principles in nutmeg have many therapeutic applications in many traditional medicines as anti-fungal, anti-depressant, aphrodisiac, digestive, and carminative functions.
- This spice is a good source of minerals like copper, potassium, calcium, manganese, iron, zinc and magnesium. Potassium is an important component of cell and body fluids that helps control heart rate and blood pressure. Manganese and copper are used by the body as co-factors for the antioxidant enzyme, superoxide dismutase. Iron is essential for red blood cell production and as a co-factor for cytochrome oxidases enzymes.
- It is also rich in many vital B-complex vitamins, including vitamin C, folic acid, riboflavin, niacin, vitamin A and many flavonoid anti-oxidants like beta-carotene and cryptoxanthin that are essential for optimum health.
Culinary uses
Both nutmeg as well as mace is used in cooking recipes. Mace has delicate flavor and givessaffron like color to the food items. Whole kernels generally preferred over powdered form since they possess more essential oils, which thus, give rich flavor and freshness to recipes. In general, completely dried kernels are either grated or milled just before being added at the last minutes of cooking.
Here are some serving tips:
- Nutmeg and mace are being employed in sauces, soups, and in confectionary.
- Aromatic mace spice is especially used as a colorant and flavoring agent in sweets, pie, cakes, donuts, etc.
- The spice is also being used as one of the common ingredients in curry powder to marinate meat and vegetable dishes in many Asian countries.
Medicinal uses
- Since
ancient times, nutmeg and its oil were being used in Chinese and Indian
traditional medicines for illnesses related to the nervous and
digestive systems. The compounds in this spice such as myristicin and elemicin have been soothing as well as stimulant properties on brain.
- Nutmeg oil contains eugenol, which has been used in dentistry for toothache relief.
- The oil is also used as a local massage to reduce muscular pain and rheumatic pain of joints.
- Freshly prepared decoction with honey has been used to relief of nausea, gastritis, and indigestion ailments.
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