Elettaria cardamomum whole pods
20% OFF 1 LB BAG = $71.65

Order 1 whole bag (normally 1 lb) and receive 20% off while supplies last! I'll apply the discount when you order 454g of a single herb, and refund or add bonus product as applicable.

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Sold by the gram. Please bring or order a bag.

MINIMUM ORDER IS 100g OR $5 WORTH

You can bring your own container if you are picking up. Please make sure that you bring bottles for liquids and wide-mouthed jars or bags for solids and herbs. Please make sure that the containers you bring are the right size. To use your container for oils, the bottle must be exactly the right size because I will be filling your order by volume. A 1000mL J jar, not a quart jar. In case of shorting due to metric versus imperial measures, I may fill your container right to the top, your measure might be short, or I may ask you to buy an extra container.

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Cardamom (/ˈkɑːrdəməm/), sometimes cardamon or cardamom,[ is a spice made from the seeds of several plants in the genera Elettaria and Amomum in the family Zingiberaceae. Both genera are native to the Indian subcontinent and Indonesia. They are recognized by their small seed pods: triangular in cross-section and spindle-shaped, with a thin, papery outer shell and small, black seeds; Elettaria pods are light green and smaller, while Amomum pods are larger and dark brown.

Species used for cardamom are native throughout tropical and subtropical Asia. The first references to cardamom are found in Sumer, and in the Ayurvedic literature of India.[2] Nowadays, it is also cultivated in some other countries, such as Guatemala, Malaysia and Tanzania.[3] The German coffee planter Oscar Majus Kloeffer introduced Indian cardamom (Kerala) to cultivation in Guatemala before World War I; by 2000, that country had become the biggest producer and exporter of cardamom in the world, followed by India.[4]

Cardamom is the world's third-most expensive spice, surpassed in price per weight only by vanilla and saffron.

PHOTO THANKS TO Augustus Binu, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons