Cardamom essential oil has a unique sweet-spicy aroma compared to the rest of the spice oils. Users appreciate it as an aroma, flavor, and wellness ingredient. Aromaaz International is also one of the top cardamom essential oil exporters and also provides all the spice essential oils with different aroma nuances.

Botany

Cardamom, also known as green or true cardamom is a herbaceous perennial plant in Zingiberaceae (Ginger) family. It is native to Southern India, but many countries such as China, Thailand, Sri Lanka, Indonesia, Guatemala, Costa Rica, and others in tropical regions have naturalized it and now cultivate it extensively.

Typically, the plant grows with an average height of 2-4 meters with alternate leaves in two ranks, white to lilac violet flowers, and three-sided yellow-green fruit pods (cardamom). The fruit pods contain 15 to 20 tiny black or brown seeds. People use dried green pods in tea, coffee, cuisines, and desserts.

Cardamom Essential Oil

Cardamom pods and seeds are known for their intense sweet-spicy aroma and taste. The cardamom essential oil manufacturers distill the pods and seeds to derive a thin clear oil with a spicy, woody, rich, and sweet fragrance. The oil is an excellent amalgamation of fragrance, flavor, and medicinal properties governed by its constituents such as 1,8-cineole, linalyl acetate, linalool, a-terpinyl acetate, and limonene. It possesses antispasmodic, digestive, expectorant, antiseptic, and stimulant properties.

A Brief History of Cardamom Essential Oil

Cardamom is a household spice used in powdered form or whole in India. The traditional Chinese and Indian healthcare experts added it to many herbal formulations for treatment. Ayurvedic practitioners have used cardamom in ayurvedic medicines since the 4th century BC. Greek physicians recognized its therapeutic properties and used it as a digestive aid.

India has been the largest producer of cardamom and cardamom essential oil. It began to export cardamom and its derivatives to Europe by the end of the 13th century. Arabian countries also imported cardamom and cardamom oil from India.

Cardamom essential oil imparts the same wellness benefits and aroma as cardamom spice. It has received the attention of fragrance and flavor connoisseurs in the late 20th century.