Capers nutrition facts

Unique, piquant flavored capers are flowering buds of a low growing caper shrub. The buds, indeed, are one of the most desired ingredients in the kitchens all around the Mediterranean basin. The spice buds botanically belong to the family of Capparaceae, in the genus: Capparis. Scientific name: Capparis spinosa. The plant is a spiny, trailing, deciduous shrub native to the Mediterranean. It prefers warm humid climate and grows in abundance all over the Cyprus, Italy, Greece,