Cloves
Cost per kilo 22,00 €

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Clove is a renowned spice all over the world and it is highly valued for its medical and culinary quality. It is most commonly used in Eastern dishes and sweets. This spice is highly fragrant and slightly spicy at taste. When cooking, it is usually added in pies, tarts, sweets, syrups, in smoked products, ham, pork, in red tomato sauces, soups and of course tea.Before ripening, clove buds are a light pink in color and they gain their brown hue once dried.

In traditional herbal medicine and folklore, it was claimed that a pot of cloves could dispel any sickness.

Medicinal Applications:

  • It has an aphrodisiac effect and helps boost sexual desire
  • It stimulates mental function
  • It has anti-flatulent properties and helps with indigestion
  • The spice's active principles have antioxidant, anti-septic, local anesthetic, anti-inflammatory and rubefacient properties
  • It also helps in treating herpes and is great against acne issues
  • It is very beneficial from the heart
  • It helps kill off parasites inside the system
  • The spice's essential oil helps in soothing local pain, like toothache, due to its anesthetic properties
  • It also helps protecting the clothes against moth infections
  • It is very potent in vitamins like vitamin C, K and pantothenic acid as well as minerals like copper, iron, selenium and zinc

We inform you that we are not doctors but traders. What is written in our online store has a simple informative character and in no way replaces medical science. Always consult your doctor about your health issues.

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