nutmeg

Nutmeg is grated or ground for flavor. This topic is part of Spices within Food & Drink. This page currently draws on 7 supporting questions, with answers and bonus facts available below.

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Nutmeg is used mainly as what?

Answer: Spice

Bonus fact: Nutmeg is grated or ground for flavor.

Nutmeg comes from the seed of which tree?

Answer: Myristica fragrans

Bonus fact: The same fruit also produces mace.

What spice is made from the red aril surrounding the nutmeg seed?

Answer: Mace

Bonus fact: Mace and nutmeg come from the same fruit.

Grenada is often nicknamed the Spice Isle because of production of what spice?

Answer: Nutmeg

Bonus fact: Nutmeg and mace have long been important Grenadian exports.

Which Indonesian island group was once called the Spice Islands?

Answer: Maluku Islands

Bonus fact: Nutmeg and cloves made the Maluku Islands globally important.

Which Indonesian region was famous as the Spice Islands?

Answer: Maluku Islands

Bonus fact: Cloves and nutmeg made the Maluku Islands strategically important.

Allspice is named because its flavor was thought to resemble cinnamon, cloves, and what other spice?

Answer: Nutmeg

Bonus fact: English tasters thought it combined several familiar spice flavors.

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