Description
- Historically, this particular spice has seen more use as a coloring agent than as a food itself. The dark red pericarp around the seed was ground into paste and used for makeup and lipstick by South and Central American tribes. Thus annattos nickname: the lipstick tree.
- The seeds are often added to oils to flavor and color them, or soaked into hot water to make a flame-colored broth.
- Kosher