spices

Ground nutmeg has a warm, subtle spice with nutty undertones and is perfect for both sweet and savoury baking and cooking.

Nutmeg comes from the dark-leaved evergreen tree known as Myristica fragrans. Ground nutmeg is a spice made from grinding the seeds of the tree into a powder form and is used as a popular spice around the world.

Nutmeg is ground and produces a distinctive fragrance that is warming and subtly sweet - perfect for baking and adding warmth to cooking recipes such as curries.

Ground nutmeg is popular in Indonesian cuisine where it is added to soups and sauces and Indian cuisines where it is used to flavour meat and added to authentic curries.

In European cuisine it is added to comforting desserts such as rice pudding or to flavour vegetables. It is also traditionally used as a key ingredient for Thanksgiving and Christmas drinks such as mulled wine, mulled cider and eggnog!

In America, ground nutmeg as an ingredient for making pumpkin pie! 

Pregnant women and nursing mothers should avoid the use of large doses of nutmeg. It can cause miscarriage in pregnant women and can inhibit prostaglandin production (involved in childbirth process). It also contains hallucinogens that may affect the fetus, if consumed in quantities greater than 7.5g.