ALLSPICE - Wonder Spice used in Spices & Tea

All Spice by Spices & Tea

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Botanical Name Pimenta dioica

Family Myrtaceae

Commercial Part Fruit & Seed

Description

Allspice trees are evergreen medium-sized, grow up to a height of 8 to 10 meters, and with a slender upright trunk and smooth greyish bark. The mail trees produce only a few fruits. The male and female trees are similar in appearance and cannot be identified till flowering commences.

Origin and Distribution

The tree is indigenous to West Indies (Jamaica) but is also found in Central America. Attempts to introduce into countries in tropical regions didn’t succeed fully. In India, there are few trees in Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, and Kerala. The dried berries range in size (6.5 to 9.5 mm in diameter) and there are 13 to 14 berries per gram. The quality of pimento is affected by factors like growing area, stage of maturity of berries at harvest, and storage conditions.

Uses

The major use of allspice is in the food industry (65 to 70%) in domestic use (5% to 10%), production of berry oil (20% to 25%), extraction of oleoresin (1% to 2%), and pharmaceutical and perfume industry. Berry, berry oil, oleoresin, leaf oil are products of economic use. It is used mostly in Western cooking and is less suitable for Eastern cooking. It has medicinal, anti-microbial, insecticidal, nematicidal, anti-oxidant, and deodorant properties.

Indian Spice Name

Kannada : Gandamenasu Malayalam : Sarvasugandhi Tamil : Sarvasukanthi

Foreign Name of Spices

Arabic: Bahar Danish: Allehande Dutch: Jamaica pepper, pimento English: Jamaica pepper, myrtle pepper, pimento, new spice Estonian: Harilik pimwnsipuu, Vurts Finnish: Maustepippuri French: Piment. Piment Jamaique, Poivre aromatique, toute-epice, poivre de la Jamaique German : Piment Neugewurz, Allgewurz, Nelkenpeffer, Jamaicapfeffer, Englisches Gewurz Hungarian : Jamaikai szegfubors, Szegfubors, Pimento, Amomummag Icelandic : Allrahanda Italian : Pimento, pepe di Giamaica Norwegian : Allehande Polish : Ziele angielskie Portuguese : Pimenta da Jamaica Russian : Yamaiskiy pjerets Spanish : Pimienta de Jamaica, Pimienta gorda Swedish : Kryddpeppar Turkish : Yeni bahar