Allspice Jamaica Pepper 50 Grams

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Christopher Columbus became aware of allspice on his second New World voyage, and the plant soon became part of European diets.

Allspice, whether as berries or ground, is used in many cuisines around the world, from Europe to the Middle East, to Africa and across the water to the Caribbean and Central America. In vivo quercitrin anti-inflammatory effect involves release of Quercetin, which inhibits inflammation through down-regulation of the NF-κB pathway.Ericifolin, Eugenol 5-O-galloylglucoside, was first isolated from leaves extract of Melaleuca ericifolia [ 29], whose oil showed antimicrobial and anti-inflammatory activities [ 63].

Considering the limited testing of Pimenta products on antitumor activities, yet its abundance of a variety of poly-phenol and lignins, we undertook a series of studies on the Allspice. Allspice or Jamaican pepper is another spice that has nothing to do as an origin with the plant from which black, white and green pepper is obtained. Flavones and flavonols exert cytotoxic effects on a human oesophageal adenocarcinoma cell line (OE33) by causing G2/M arrest and inducing apoptosis. The anti-inflammatory effect was investigated on LPS induced activated macrophages, to which Eugenol has inhibitory effect on its COX-2 production as well as NF-KB pathway activation, which are characteristics for inflammation [ 35, 37, 38]. This way, you always know what you are using and achieve the highest efficacy, both in our personal wellness range and in gourmet spices.Jamaica "pepper" is used in baking to make some biscuits, in ketchup (which is a very old Chinese invention and actually very high quality when not the American industrial product saturated with sugar and artificial flavours that we unfortunately know all too well), as well as in Benedictine and Chartreuse liqueurs. The smell of allspice or clove pepper is very strong and aromatic, somewhat like cloves, with hints of cinnamon and nutmeg. The most important component isolated from Allspice with strong antioxidant activity is Eugenol which composes 60–90% of the essential oil extracted from Allspice berries. Although the pro-oxidant effects are not welcomed for the healthy cells, it actually enabled Quercetin to work like cytotoxic drug against cancer cells under higher dose. However, Quercetin might have pro-oxidant effect which causes cellular damage when administered in high dosage [ 48].