The Sri Lankan Cloves from Tropical Finest, purely natural flower buds collected from local gardens and farms and dried in sun or dryers are now presenting to your dining table. The Tropical Finest cloves are organic and 100 % natural.
The Cloves are the dried unopened flower buds of the tropical myrtle tree family. Once these buds are matured enough to pluck, as it initially has a pale hue color, turned in to bright red once it is ready to harvest, so farmers pick those by hand or sticks. The harvest then turns into grounds for sun drying or laid through the panels in drying machines.
Due to the strong, warm spicy taste, Cloves can be used to add flavours to the variety of sweet and savory dishes.
Cloves are one of the main spice used in cuisine, specially cooking vegi and non-veggie curries, sweet and savor baked foods such as cookies, cakes, pies, bread & buns and in the poaching liquids. And also it enhances the flavour aromatic, when making pasta, noodles, rice & curries and some sweets such as milk toffee, puddings, boiled sweet potatoes, banana smoothies, madeleines and vanilla cakes, if you add cloves as an spice.
To make flavoured tea, Cloves are one ingredient that is used, and also brewed into tea, thickened into syrups, and distilled into spirits for some other toxic drinks.
As it works well with cinnamon, cardamom, nutmeg and ginger, as the Cloves can be mixed other spices to get spice blends to spread through your curries.
When you cook, you can use Cloves as whole buds or ground powder to curries.
Apart from the culinary uses, the Cloves as the essential oil is used in herbal medical and pharmaceutical industry, to add as an ingredient for making medical preparations, ointments and also painkillers and also an ingredient for making herbal toothpastes, mouthwashes and gum liquids.
And Cloves can be used as fat burning drink, if you use some of it with boiled water, honey and with some garcinia, in the morning and night before your meal.
Also Cloves oil improves the concentration and efficiency of thinking.
Other usage of Cloves is, it is one of major ingredients in perfume industry in making perfumes, fragrances and scents.
Scientific name: Syzygium aromaticum