Colour: Slightly gold. Taste: Powerful freshly ground cardamom pods. Lingering mild spicy taste with strong bitter aftertaste. Monin Cardamom syrup has a unique taste & intense aromatic fragrance, especially if you mix it with Monin Rose syrup, for example, in a tea latte. Why not try a Cardamom Iced Coffee Latte. With its powerful aroma, Monin Cardamom syrup will prevail against the coldness of the milk to bring flavours, spices, & make your drink phenomenal. An aromatic spice & member of the ginger family, Cardamom is a mouth refresher & a basic ingredient of Indian & Arabic cuisine. Indigenous to India, Nepal & Bhutan, it is the world's third most expensive spice by weight after saffron & vanilla. There are two varieties, green & black cardamom, which come in pods about the size of a cranberry encasing 17 to 20 black seeds. Cardamom has a unique taste with an intensely aromatic, resinous fragrance. Black cardamom has a smoky flavour with a minty coolness & is sometimes used in Garam Masala for curries. In the Middle East, green cardamom powder is used as a spice for sweet dishes, coffee & tea & in South Asia it is used to make Indian sweets & Chai tea. Also an ingredient in Scandinavian baking, it has an affinity with chocolate. Spice up your coffees, lattes, teas, chocolates & dessert drinks with Monin Cardamom syrup, which delivers the pungent taste of freshly ground seeds & a mild enticing sweet spicy flavour. For best results keep refrigerated & use within 4 weeks.