Known as a staple ingredient in Indian cuisine, clove is a flavour and wellness enhancer. Loved for its warm and pungent aroma and savoury to spicy taste, clove is key in cooking, perfumery, medicines and lots more.
It has also been a prominent part of Middle Eastern, North African and Chinese cuisine.
The amazing clove tree finds mention in history for its superpower to preserve, flavour and garnish food. The quality lies in the bud of these trees that carry an essential oil, eugenol, which makes clove pungent and aromatic. These buds flower best in the land of red soil, that is Kerala, Karnataka and Tamil Nadu in the South of India where the climate is cool and the rainfall is adequate. The spice from the flowering buds is then widely used in a variety of cuisines across the globe.
