Spices

Spice production is realized in Mäspoma spol. s r.o. in two premises - Nitra, Dvory nad Žitavou - equipped with modern production lines: drying houses, mills, separators, package lines, etc. Particular meaning in our production has sweat paprika, which is pride for our company. We are the biggest producers of Slovak paprika and every year we are purchasing almost 95% of home harvest. Majority of our raw materials, we are buying straight from producers in places of their appearance from India begging to countries in Middle America ending.

Another important part of spice program is spice mixes, which are increasingly used in our households. These flavours to soup and food are distributed like Dobrota and Špecia. Conserve mixes for cucumbers and pickles are marked like Zeko, Zelko and Nakladač.

In the past herbs and spices were highly valuable evaluated. They were stored in boxes, or locked at special places. Through whole history herbs and spices were well known with their positive effects on human body. Therefore their widest use was in medicine. Today’s world appreciate mostly only their taste, smell and appearance, but mystics of their knowledge is reaching much more further. They protect against illnesses and they not only add taste to foods, but even help to burn fat. They are good source of antioxidants, which suppress inflammations in the body.

Spices and herbs are convenient alternative for salt and sugar, therefore we recommend you to use caraway, rosemary, oregano, or basil instead of salt and cloves, ginger, cinnamon or allspice instead of sugar. If you decided to use spices a little bit more often it is good to start with approved recipes, till you will became experienced zester who is able to find harmony and awake uniqueness in every meal.