Buying guide
Fresh or dried?
A buyer asked us this in our first week, and it is the right question to ask before volume or price. The two formats suit genuinely different businesses.
Ginger leaves the farm one of two ways. It goes out fresh — the rhizome, lifted, washed and graded — or it is sliced and dried into a stable product that keeps for months. Everything else made from ginger, from powder to oleoresin, starts down one of those two roads.
Which one you want is not a question of quality. It is a question of how far the ginger has to travel, how long you need it to keep, and what you are going to do with it when it arrives.
Side by side
The trade-offs that actually matter.
Shelf life
Fresh rhizome
Weeks, in the right conditions. Fresh rhizome is a living thing and it keeps behaving like one after it leaves the field.
Dried
Months. Removing the water is what buys the time, and that is most of why dried exists.
Weight shipped
Fresh rhizome
You pay freight on the water, which is most of the mass of a fresh rhizome.
Dried
Substantially lighter for the same amount of ginger, which is what makes long-haul freight work.
Handling
Fresh rhizome
Cold chain, ventilation, speed. Every day between lifting and landing is a day of risk.
Dried
Dry storage. Forgiving in transit, which changes who can buy it and from how far away.
What it is used for
Fresh rhizome
Retail and wholesale produce, juicing, fresh-market processing, food service.
Dried
Milling into powder, spice blending, extraction, beverages, and anything that needs a stable input.
Price basis
Fresh rhizome
Quoted per kilogram of fresh weight, delivered against a harvest window.
Dried
Quoted per kilogram of finished dried product, which is not comparable to the fresh figure — a like-for-like comparison has to account for the water removed.
Where we stand
What we can supply, and what we cannot.
We supply fresh rhizome, grown at Essuehyia, graded and packed at the farm. That is the product we can quote against a harvest window today.
Dried slices, ground ginger, paste, crystallised ginger, essential oil, oleoresin and tea cut are all published on our products page — and all marked as in development. They are the plan, not the inventory. When a processing line comes online we will publish its actual specification, measured from our own crop, rather than an industry average borrowed from somewhere else.
If you need dried material this season, say so when you enquire. We would rather point you elsewhere than take an order we cannot fill.