TURMERIC / CURCUMA

Nutmeg is asian spice and one of the world’s traded spices. It has a pleasant distinctive spicy aroma, warm and contains a slightly sweet flavour, used as an essential oil, nutmeg butter and common spices for cooking.

Turmeric or curcuma has a mild, tanalh-like flavour, and a slightly musky aroma, with a satisfying spicy taste. Turmeric is used as mainly colouring and flavouring agent in many Asian cuisines, especially for curries, traditional herbal medicine.

Cardamon is a spice consisting of the dried whole or ground fruit, or, seeds, of Elettaria cardamomum. The seeds have a warm, slightly spicy, and highly aromatic flavour somewhat eminiscent of camphor. It is called name “the queen of spices” as the most flavour and more used in Asian cuisines, intensely aromatic.

Cinnamon is used mainly as an aromatic condiment and flavouring additive in wide variety of cuisines, sweet and savoury dishes, breakfast cereals, snackfoods, bagels, teas, hot chocolate and traditional foods. The aroma and flavour of cinnamon derive from its essential oil and cinnamaldehyde as well as numerous other constituents including eugenol.

Available in two varians, red ginger and elephant ginger. This type of ginger has a high essential oil content and the spiciest flavour, making it suitable for pharmaceutical and herbal medicine. It is also used as a natural preservative in the food industry because of its antibacterial activity against pathogenic and food-damaging bacteria. The rhizome is the smallest with red skin, larger fiber than ginger.

Cloves are often used a spice to enhance flavor or aroma, not only that, cloves have health benefits. Cloves are a spice that is rich in antioxidants. Antioxidant compounds can help the body fight free radicals that work to damage cells that can eventually lead to disease. Consuming cloves can help reduce the risk of developing heart disease, diabetes and certain types of cancer.

Lemon grass can be extracted into an essential oil which can warm the body as traditional herbal medicine. The stem of this plant can also eliminate toxins from the body because it has antioxidants, such as chlorogenic acid, isoorientin and swertia japonica. The content in lemongrass stems can neutralize toxins which contains antiinflammatory. Not only that, lemongrass is ideal for both aromatherapy and rich favour in cullinary.

Although only available in relatively small amounts, palm sugar contains inulin fiber, a variety of antioxidants, potassium, phosphorus, zinc, iron and magnanese. Palm sugar also has a lower glycemic index than other sweeteners, white sugar. It has an earthy sweetness without any additives, truly natural from the palm tree.

The development of technology, physicochemical properties of fibers, and consumer awareness to return to natural materials, makes cocnut coir fiber used as raw material for the carpet industry, vehicle seats and dashboards, mattreses, pillows and hardboard.