What is ginger?
Ingredients:
In the unassuming ginger bulb hide numerous vitamins and minerals like potassium, calcium and iron. It also contains an uncommonly broad profile of essential oils, such as shogaol and gingerol, for example.
Background:
It is likely that the ginger plant was first discovered in the tropics of South-East Asia. Some botanists even claim that the plant’s Sanskrit name indicates that it originated in India.
Ginger got its botanical name, Zingiber officinalis, from the famous 18th century Swedish botanist, Carl Linnaeus. He derived the name Zingiber from the Sanskrit name singabera, which means horn. The best-known part of the ginger plant, which is used commercially, is the irregularly-formed part growing beneath the earth, the bulb (strictly speaking “Rhizome”), which is wrongly called the root.