Cilantro Tincture & Alcohol-Free Extract

Cilantro (Coriandrum sativum), the leaf of the coriander plant, is an annual of the carrot family, Apiaceae, native to the eastern Mediterranean and southwest Asia and grown as a kitchen herb from Mexico and India to China and Southeast Asia. It grows 30 to 60 centimeters with broad, lobed, parsley-like lower leaves and feathery upper leaves, topped in summer by small umbels of white to pale pink flowers. The round, ribbed, straw-colored fruits, sold as coriander seed, have a warm, sweet, citrusy flavor quite unlike the fresh leaf, whose pungent green taste reads as soapy to some people for genetic reasons. We extract the dried leaf and seed separately.