Green Cardamom Suppliers
Green Cardamom is a dried ripe fruit (capsules of cardamom plant) often known as the “Queen of Spices” because of its pleasant taste and aroma. Green Cardamoms not only make food and beverages tasty and pleasant but also enriches their nutritional value making them healthy and beneficial. With different types of Green Cardamom available, these exotic green pods are in demand globally and have been an excellent source of taste enhancement for ages.
Green Cardamom is a dried ripe fruit (capsules of cardamom plant) often known as the “Queen of Spices” because of its pleasant taste and aroma. Green Cardamoms not only make food and beverages tasty and pleasant but also enriches their nutritional value making them healthy and beneficial. With different types of Green Cardamom available, these exotic green pods are in demand globally and have been an excellent source of taste enhancement for ages.
Green Cardamom is a perennial, herbaceous, rhizomatous plant. Three varieties are recognised based on the nature of panicles: Malabar with a prostrate panicle, Mysore with an erect panicle, and Vazhukka with a semi-erect panicle. Plants are of medium size (2 to 3 meter in height) with pubescent leaves (on the dorsal side) and fruits globose in the case of Malabar, whereas plants robust (3 to 4 meter in height) with leaves glabrous on both sides with ovoid capsules in the case of Mysore. The Vazhukka variety is a mix of both the above in physical characteristics.
Indian Cardamom is offered to the international markets in different grades: ‘Alleppey Green Extra Bold’ (AGEB), ‘Alleppey Green Bold’ (AGB) and ‘Alleppey Green Superior’ (AGS) are names that register instant appeal worldwide. Cardamoms are also sold as per their sizes, e.g., 5mm, 6mm, 7mm, 8mm and Jumbo.
Cardamom oil is a precious ingredient in food preparations, perfumery, health foods, medicines and beverages. India is a traditional Green Cardamom supplier to Middle East countries, where it goes mostly into the preparation of ‘Gahwa’ – a strong cardamom – coffee concoction without which no day is complete or no hospitality hearty for an Arab. Indian Cardamom enjoys a premium preference in the Middle East, Japanese and Russians who relish it for its distinct enriching properties.
India contributes to more than 50% of total Cardamom exports globally.
Harvesting Season:
August to March
The cultivation of Cardamom is primarily concentrated in the ever-green forests of the Western Ghats in South India. Kerala is the highest producer of quality cardamom, followed by Tamil Nadu.
Benefits And Uses
- Green Cardamom is widely used as a flavouring agent in whole and ground form. It can add lingering sparkle to every traditional and modern dish in Asia. In Scandinavian countries, it is used in baked goods and confectioneries.
- It is an ingredient in curry powder and some sausage products in Europe and North America.
- Cardamom oil and oleoresin have applications in flavouring processed foods, cordials, liquors, perfumery, and Ayurvedic medicines.
- It is chewed as a mouth freshener and makes for a thoughtful gift.
Specification
We are well aware that different users – the home segment, the hotels, restaurants, caterers (HORECA) segment and the industrial segment (coffee blenders, ice cream customers, spice mix and masala makers) – have varying needs in the Cardamom buy. Hence, we developed a unique grading system, now an industry standard. We grade the cardamoms by the size of the pod diameter.
Soon after the cardamom pods are picked, they are processed at our state-of-the-art HACCP-certified facility.
Size-wise, the pods are then graded into colour.
Label-coded packaging for easy identification:
- Yellow label packs: 8mm & above pods
- Red label packs: 7.5mm & above pods
- Purple label packs: 7mm-8mm pods
- Turquoise label packs: 6.5mm-7.5mm pods
- Green label packs: 6mm-7mm pods
The quality remains world-class across all packs.
With this system of grading cardamoms, Vora Spices has laid down the benchmark that the industry would follow later. When you buy Cardamom from us, you are buying the world’s best Alleppey Green Cardamom from the people who know Cardamom best.
Sourcing
There’s a lot that goes into making the world’s best Cardamom. It all begins with where it is grown.
At the plantation itself, the Cardamom is hand-picked and separated by native experts whose skills have been passed down several generations – thus, only the very best, fully-matured pods of a certain size are selected.
The graded pods are immediately packed into patented Aroma-Lock packs to seal in the plantation freshness. This is important because the potency of Cardamom depends on its aroma and flavour – both of which are locked into the oil within the seeds. When pods are exposed, this oil will gradually evaporate and lose its potency. The Aroma-Lock ensures this does not happen.
Each Aroma-Lock pack is packed into special UV-Coated cartons lined with black paper insulation. This ensures that, even during transit, the contents are constantly shielded from nature’s elements.
With 100% pure and unadulterated, all the products at Vora Spice Mills are procured from the best and most reliable sources in the production areas.
Indian Name Of Spices
- Hindi : Chhoti elaichi
- Bengali : Chhoti elachi
- Gujarati : Elaychi
- Kannada : Yelakki
- Kashmiri : Aa lbuduaa l
- Malayalam : Elathari
- Marathi : Velchil Oriya
- Alaichi Punjabi : Elaychi
- Sanskrit : Ela
- Tamil : Yelakkai or Elakkai
- Telugu : Yealak-Kayulu or Elakkayi
- Urdu : Ilaychi
Foreign Name Of Spices
- Spanish : Cardamomo
- French : Cardamome
- German : Kardamom
- Swedish : Kardemumma
- Arabic : Hal
- Dutch : Kardemom
- Italian : Cardamomo
- Portuguese : Cardamomo
- Russian : Kardamon
- Japanese : Karudamon
- Chinese : Pai-tou-k’ou