Health benefits of ginger & quot; Ginger is fantastic," Slattery says. "It's not just delicious. Ginger, a natural component of ginger root, promotes gastrointestinal motility - the speed at which food leaves the stomach and goes through the digestive process. Ginger is one of the earliest known oriental spices and is being cultivated in India for both as fresh vegetable and as a dried spice, since time immemorial. Ginger is obtained from the rhizomes of Zingiber officinale.
