Premium Cloves – Nature’s Aromatic Treasure – 25 g

The most quietly cheated spice in the market

• Clove oil (eugenol) is worth more than cloves
• So cloves are steam-distilled, the oil is sold to the flavour and pharma industry, and the exhausted cloves go back into the spice trade
• A spent clove looks almost the same and does close to nothing
• It’s extremely common, and it’s why many people think cloves are a mild spice

How to tell

• Press the head with a fingernail — a fresh clove leaves a faint oily mark and gives slightly
• Float them — a good clove sinks, or floats head-up. A spent one floats flat, because the oil that made it dense is gone.
• Ours sink.

How to use it

• Whole in pulao, biryani and garam masala — two or three is plenty
• One per cup in chai, with elaichi
• In kadha and achaar
• Use fewer than you think. Real cloves are strong.