Chemical composition of ginger:
Ash may vary from 3.4 to 8 per cent.; fiber, 1.7 to 9 per cent.
The white ginger has less ash than the dark, as is also the case in regard to the percentage of fiber.
| Water, | 11.00 to 9.10 |
| Ash, | 7.02 to 3.39 |
| Volatile Oil, | 2.54 to .96 |
| Fixed Oil, | 4.58 to 2.29 |
| Starch, | 53.33 to 46.16 |
| Crude Fiber, | 7.65 to 1.70 |
| Albuminoids, | 10.85 to 5.25 |
It is said that the water and starch extract from the weight of the newly dug root 75 to 85 per cent., and yet the dried root retains all the valuable aromatic qualities.
NUTMEG. (Myristica)
1 Nutmeg with Mace and part inner shell
2 Brown Pedang
3 Long Macassar with Mace
4 Singapore or Batavia
5 Flowering twig with leaf
6 Burr just opening showing the Mace
CHAPTER XII
NUTMEGS
Though all your parts we rashly grate