Ginger is a very popular spice used worldwide; whether it be used to spice up meals, or as a
medicine.
Ginger can be used for a variety of food or medicine items such as vegetables, candy, soda,
pickles, and alcoholic beverages.
Ginger is a fragrant kitchen spice. Young ginger rhizomes are juicy and fleshy with a mild
taste. They are often pickled in vinegar or sherry as a snack or cooked as an ingredient in many
dishes. They can be steeped in boiling water to make ginger herb tea, to which honey may be
added. Ginger can be made into candy or ginger wine.
Mature ginger rhizomes are fibrous and nearly dry. The juice from ginger roots is often used as
a seasoning in Indian recipes and is a common ingredient of Chinese, Korean, Japanese,
Vietnamese, and many South Asian cuisines for flavoring dishes such as seafood, meat, and
vegetarian dishes.The inflorescences bear flowers having pale yellow petals with purple
edges, and arise directly from the rhizome on separate shoots
ry ginger, one of the most popular forms of ginger commercially exported, must undergo drying
and preparation to reach the goal product. Ginger rhizomes that are to be converted into dry
ginger must be harvested at full maturity (8–10 months), then they must be soaked overnight
and rubbed well for cleaning.After being removed from water the outer skin is very
delicately scraped off with a bamboo splinter or wooden knife and this process must be done by
hand as it is too delicate a process to be done by machinery. After being traded
internationally.