{"id":6263,"date":"2025-04-06T10:39:40","date_gmt":"2025-04-06T10:39:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bridetidingsgh.com\/?post_type=product&#038;p=6263"},"modified":"2025-04-15T17:15:59","modified_gmt":"2025-04-15T17:15:59","slug":"grains-of-paradise","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/bridetidingsgh.com\/index.php\/product\/grains-of-paradise\/","title":{"rendered":"Grains of Paradise"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Scientific name:<\/strong> Aframomum meleguet<br \/>\n<strong>Common names:<\/strong> Grains of paradise, Alligator pepper\u00a0and melegueta pepper<br \/>\n<strong>Local names:<\/strong> Fam wusa (Twi), Ataku (Ewe)<br \/>\n<strong>Family:<\/strong> Zingiberaceae<\/p>\n<p><strong>Description:<\/strong> A tufted leafy herbaceous plant up to 2m\u00a0high, leaves are distichously arranged etc.<br \/>\n<strong>Habitat:<\/strong> it is cultivated in forest regions in farms and\u00a0home gardens. Its matured dried fruit and seeds are\u00a0sold in the markets.<br \/>\n<strong>Chemical constituents:<\/strong> Oleo-resins (volatile oil contains\u00a0paradols, gingerols and shogaols).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Uses:<\/strong> it is an aromatic stimulant; for treatment of\u00a0coughs and bronchitis; anti-rheumatic; for dyspepsia;\u00a0also used as an adjuvant. Used in Japan as aphrodisiac.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":6410,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"product_cat":[65],"product_tag":[],"class_list":["post-6263","product","type-product","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","product_cat-spices","first","instock","shipping-taxable","product-type-simple"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bridetidingsgh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product\/6263","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bridetidingsgh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bridetidingsgh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/product"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bridetidingsgh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6263"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bridetidingsgh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6410"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bridetidingsgh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"product_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bridetidingsgh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_cat?post=6263"},{"taxonomy":"product_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bridetidingsgh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_tag?post=6263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}