Wholesale ground ginger for professionals

Wholesale ground ginger, a dry heat

Wholesale ground ginger holds a place of its own on the spice aisle: it does not merely add scent, it adds heat. A dry, rising heat, quite unlike the bite of a pepper or a chilli, which structures a gingerbread as readily as an Asian marinade. A food wholesaler since 1984, Palimex lists it under the Epika and Espig labels, as powder, from the small bag to the case.

Two products under one name

Beware of a common confusion when ordering: the word "ginger" covers two families of product here, sharing neither use nor aisle. On one side the spice, a rhizome dried and then ground, dosed to the gram in savoury or sweet preparations. On the other side sweetened dehydrated ginger, in cubes, slices or pieces, which is a confectionery item and sells in 5 kg pails as well as in cases.

This page deals with the spice. If you are looking for the candied version for pastry, bulk sale or aperitif mixes, turn to our wholesale sweetened dehydrated fruit, where it sits with the other fruits of the same family. The two order together without difficulty, but they never replace one another in the kitchen.

Where the ground form works

Powdered ginger is a background spice, rarely the headline on its own. Here are the uses our customers make of it most often:

• Pastry and bakery: gingerbread, dry biscuits, scented leavened doughs.
• Asian cooking: marinades, stocks, sauces where it comes before garlic and soy.
• Indian cooking: dry blends, house curries, slow-cooked vegetable dishes.
• Catering: poultry stuffings, preparations built on squash or carrot.
• Drinks: infusions and syrups prepared ahead in the kitchen.

A powder has one decisive advantage here over the fresh rhizome: it is dosed exactly, needs neither peeling nor grating, and does not vary from one delivery to the next. For a menu that runs all year, that consistency weighs more than the nuance fresh product brings.

Available formats and stock rotation

Our range covers the fine grocer as well as the central kitchen. The small bags suit businesses using ginger on only a few preparations; the 1 kg bag and the case of 100 g units follow steady production or shelf display.

The choice is less about price per kilo than about organisation. A pastry chef producing gingerbread from October to January is better served by the case, which spares them keeping a kilo open the rest of the year; a caterer building marinades weekly gains from the bag. We see both cases daily, and it is almost always the pace of use that settles it.

Dosage and storage

Ground ginger is dosed with restraint: its heat rises during cooking and does not come back down. The method comes down to four points:

1. Add it at the start of the preparation, never as a last-minute correction.
2. Add in small touches and taste the cooked preparation, not the raw one.
3. In a leavened dough, allow for resting: the scent keeps diffusing.
4. Write the chosen quantity on the recipe card as soon as it satisfies.

In the store room the rules are those of any ground spice and belong in your food safety management plan: storage away from light and damp, tightly resealed and dated containers, first-in first-out rotation, lot marks and best-before dates kept until the pack is finished. Imported spices also fall under a European framework on pesticide residues, whose current state the Commission publishes on its pesticides portal.

Our view as a wholesaler

Do not judge a ground ginger by its smell in the bag, but by the heat it leaves at the back of the palate after cooking. It is the only criterion that counts, and it is also the first to fade in a lot left open too long.

Our teams work every day with pastry chefs, restaurateurs, caterers and fine grocers who buy in bulk. We would rather offer a readable range — one form of the spice, four pack sizes, two labels — than a catalogue mixing spice and confectionery without telling them apart. To round out your shelf, wholesale ground turmeric and wholesale cinnamon share its ground, in pastry as in cooking. Request your trade price: our wholesale terms apply from the first tier, with pallet delivery and carriage paid according to order value.