Organic ground cloves

Cloves are one of the best-known spices (along with pepper). pepper) whose distinctive scent will probably remind you of the dentist. A powerful antiseptic and anti-inflammatory, cloves are generally used whole, but ground cloves can be used in certain blends. Squeezed into an onion and placed in a stew, its favor is irreplaceable.

Good cloves have a nice, well-presented floral growth, as opposed to all-black, burnt cloves that actually look like cloves. Good ground cloves have a bewitchingly sweet, chocolatey scent, somewhere between cinnamon, pepper and fennel, a far cry from the smell you'd find at the dentist's (eugenol, the active ingredient).

Native to the Moluccan archipelago (like many other spices brought back by Europeans in the 16th century), 95% of the world's clove production is used to make Indonesian cigarettes, the famous kreteks.

Common name: Clove
Botanical name: Syzygium aromaticum (L.) Merr.
Botanical family: Myrtaceae
Part used: Flower bud
Origin: Madagascar
Harvesting time: ND
Harvesting technique: Manual
Storage : Dry
Cultivated / Wild : Cultivated
Guarantee : Organic, certified by FR-BIO-01

Storage conditions: Protect from heat, light and humidity.

Shape: Whole
Appearance: Small spherical knobs supported by an elongated, hard appendage
Granulometry, size: 10 to 15 mm
Color: Dark brown
Odor: Characteristic
Taste: Pungent, Characteristic, Woody