What is "allspice" and what component of spices make it?

Answer 1

Allspice, also called Jamaica pepper, Myrtle pepper, pimento [1] , or newspice, is a spice which is the dried unripe fruit of the Pimenta dioica plant. The name "allspice" was coined by the English, who thought it combined the flavour of several spices, such as cloves, pepper, and even cinnamon and nutmeg.

Answer 2

allspice: the berry of an evergreen tree of the myrtle family widely grown in Jamaica. The dried dark brown berries are available whole or ground and taste like a combination of cloves, cinnamon, and nutmeg. Allspice is used in sweet and savory foods.

Answer 3

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Allspice is the dried berry of the pimento, an evergreen tree growing as high as 40 ft in the West Indies, South America, Central America, and Mexico. It bears opposite, leathery, oblong to oblong-lanceolate, leaves whose pinnately arranged veins show prominently on the underside. Small white flowers grow in many-flowered cymes in the upper leaf axils from June to August. The fruit is a fleshy, sweet berry which is purplish-black when ripe. The berries used for allspice, however, are collected when they have reached full size but are not yet ripe. The name comes from the berry’s taste, which has been described as a combination of cloves, juniper berries, cinnamon, and pepper.

Answer 4

All spice is a spice unto itself. It is a little berry that is native to the West Indies.

Answer 5

a member of the pimento family and native to tropical regions in the western hemisphere; has leathery leaves, white flowers and small, brown berries, has a flavor reminiscent of a mixture of cinnamon, clove, nutmeg, ginger and pepper; also know as Jamaican pepper.

Answer 6

"All Spice" is a horrible-smelling aftershave popular with swarthy European men who saw it as a convenient alternative to washing properly in the 1970s and 80s.

Oh wait, that was "Old Spice"....