Candied Ginger with Fructose

History

The name of the plant comes from the extinct Middle Indian language, which used the expression singivera. The plant reached Europe together with the veterans of Alexander the Great's Asian campaigns. It first spread in Greece and then throughout the whole Mediterranean area, and the various languages changed the original name according to their own canons, which explains the considerable difference between the various names today.

The English name ginger comes from the French: gingembre, from the ancient English: gingifere, from the Medieval Latin: gingiber, and from the Greek: zingiberis. Ultimately the origin dates back to the Dravidian word inchi-ver.

Ginger was already known to Galen, who described its root as "imported from Barbaria"; at the end of the 14th century Geoffrey Chaucer wrote about it in his Canterbury Tales: "Plants of green ginger and pale licorice, and cloves that offered their sweetness along with nutmeg to be put in beer... or even to be stored in a casket". The Sienese doctor Pietro Andrea Mattioli two hundred years later recommended it as "commendable in food and costumed to eat in condiments.

The use of ginger ("gengiovo") in Florentine confectionery manufacture in the Middle Ages is reported in the sixth novella of the eighth day of the Decameron.

Ginger wine, produced in England, has been marketed since 1740.

Sources:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ginger

http://www.alimentipedia.it/zenzero.html

http://ricerca.repubblica.it/repubblica/archivio/repubblica/2010/01/17/zenzero-un-piccante-ritorno-in-tavola.html

Properties

There exists a wide variety of uses for ginger in folk medicine that vary from country to country. The medicinal form of ginger has historically been called "Jamaican Ginger" and has been classified as a stimulant and carminative and used frequently for dyspepsia and colic. It was also often used to mask the taste of other medicines.

Ginger tea is considered a remedy against cold. For generations, ginger ale and ginger beer have been recommended as "stomach relaxants" in areas where such drinks are produced and ginger water was commonly used to prevent heat cramps in the United States.

Ginger has anti-inflammatory and antioxidant properties and stimulates digestion and peripheral circulation. The rhizome has a clear anti-inflammatory, antiemetic, antipyretic and anti-inflammatory action¹.

A 2010 study highlighted that the daily consumption of ginger contributes to the alleviation of 25% of the pain caused by muscular exercise².

Affordable price

Affordable price means to us offering our clients candied ginger with fructose that everybody can enjoy.

We want, on the one hand, to place the proper value on raw materials in order to obtain a quality product by paying our farmers a fair price; on the other hand we want to fulfil your needs when it comes to pricing.

We establish fair long-term relationships with our producers to avoid race-to-the-bottom pricing and that are based on trust as part of our efforts to offer you the finest and most natural product.

Not only that: by choosing large packs of candied ginger with fructose, you are also contributing to the reduction in the use of plastic.