Let’s Healthy Cook with Nutmeg

Nutmeg, another spices commodity that you can find in Indonesia as our beautiful country. It was so lucky for me when visiting Durian Plantation which owned by my father in law on West Java where I can see the harvest of Nutmeg and the drying process of this commodity by farmer before they sell it to the local market. Since nutmeg having many benefits use in human life, nutmeg has know in the international spices market as primary spices commodity.   

What is benefits use of nutmeg actually in human life for? Source from the website of wisegeek.com, nutmeg has use in almost a variety of cuisines where the essential oil which contains on nutmeg seed is useful also for medicinal applications. Nutmeg powder is used as a flavoring in cooking, bread or cakes, puddings, sauces, vegetables, and beverages. The spice of Nutmeg is harvested from plants of the Myristica genus of which there are about 100 nutmeg species native to Australia, Southeast Asia, and the Pacific Islands. 

Let’s healthy cook with Nutmeg since many health benefit which having in nutmeg. Some good information that I got from the website of Herbal Destination about many research related with nutmeg and health benefit for human, according to the research of Dr. Paracelsus Loni cerus and Mathiolus about Nutmeg as a gastric tonic, nutmeg is aromatic, stimulant, sleep inducing, carminative, intoxicating, digestive tonic and is also an aphrodisiac.

Nutmeg benefits include help to combat asthma. In Homeopathy, nutmeg is used to help with anxiety and depression. In Chinese medicine, nutmeg is used also to help with male sexuality and liver conditions. Researchers proved that nutmeg has an ability to enhance man’s virility.

Source from Wikipedia, the history of nutmeg in Indonesia was began at Banda islandsin the Moluccas for this spices which have the latin name Myristica fragrans tree and now can be find in almost Indonesia area. Beside sell nutmeg to the local spices market, farmer whose have nutmeg tree in my father in law village on West Java is usually use nutmeg as the spices ingredients for the making process of nutmeg syrup and nutmeg sweet chips.