Nutmeg

As I prepare for Thanksgiving, I began to wonder about the spices we tend to use at this time of the year. Nutmeg is often used in Pumpkin pie, sweet potatoes and yams. What it does for us from a health stand is to assist in digestion, often helping with nausea, vomiting and gas.

Some of you may already know that nutmeg is the center seed. Around that center seed is a shell and around the shell is red covering which is collected and is sold as mace. Mace has similar properties to nutmeg in that it assists with digestion. Mace is more powerful flavor than nutmeg.

When I mention mace, you may be thinking of pepper spray. This is not the same as the spice mace.