Cardamom, known as the “Queen of Spices” is a perennial herbaceous plant with a pseudo stem and thick irregularly shaped rhizomes. Dried fruit or a Cardamom capsule is traded as a spice. There are several commercial grades of cardamom including the whole cardamom as primary products in the spice trade, ground form as secondary processed products, and in the form of extractions of oil and oleoresin as value-added products.