Each green cardamom pod contains approximately 10 seeds, black pods approximately 48 seeds and red pods approximately 32 seeds. Much production of cardamom in India is cultivated on private property or in areas the government leases out to farmers. These volatile oils relieve excess gas, while improving digestive function and provide natural support to the intestine – easing bloating. Cardamom might be useful in managing bronchitis and associated symptoms due to its expectorant, antibacterial and anti-inflammatory properties.

In addition to the aforementioned health benefits, cardamom may be good for your health in other ways as well. Both are frequent components in such spice mixes as Indian and Nepali masalas and Thai curry pastes.

After saffron and vanilla, cardamom is currently the third most expensive spice, [41] and is used as a spice and flavouring for food and liqueurs and in medicine. Product Information While every care has been taken to ensure product information is correct, food products are constantly being reformulated, so ingredients, nutrition content, dietary, and allergens may change. In about a year, the seedlings reach about 30 cm (1 ft) in length, and are ready for transplantation. Although each different variety of cardamom has its own specific flavor, in general it is lemony and light with a woodsy, rugged aroma (the scent of red cardamom especially reminded me of freshly split wood).

The yield of the Mysore plantations was approximately 91,000 kg (200,000 lb), and the cultivation was mainly in Kadur district. There are no apparent risks of consuming cardamom, especially in cooking as part of a balanced diet.Green, black and red cardamom can each be used in three separate ways, or even a combination of the three. The Babylonians and Assyrians recognized the health benefits of the spice early on, and trade in cardamom opened up along land routes and by the interlinked Persian Gulf route controlled from Dilmun as early as the third millennium BCE Early Bronze Age, [25] into western Asia and the Mediterranean world.