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Chamomile

Matricaria chamomillaAlso called mayweed, scented mayweed, camomile and matricaria chamomilla

Chamomile is an herb. Cooks use it to make infusions.

  • Plant-based
  • Gluten-free
  • No listed allergens

About the plain ingredient, not packaged products; general information, not medical advice. Details

Family
Asteraceae
Cooked most in
Africa
Top country
Nigeria
Chamomile, plant

Photo: Holly Victoria Norval · CC BY 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons

In the kitchen

How to use chamomile

Typical ways to cook or use it

  • Infuse

Around the world

Where chamomile is cooked

1 dish in the catalogue uses chamomile. Here is where they come from.

Dishes by continent

Countries whose dishes use it most

Counts are catalogued dishes from each country that list chamomile among their ingredients.

Origins

Native to
Southern Europe, Eastern Europe

On the table

Dishes made with chamomile

1 dish in the catalogue uses it.

  • Banga rice

    Nigeria

Dish lists come from Wikidata; a dish counts when its recorded ingredients include chamomile.

Good to know

Diet and allergens: chamomile in detail

These notes describe the plain ingredient. Packaged and prepared products vary, so read the label; for allergies and medical diets ask a doctor or dietitian.
Allergens
None of the 15 listed allergens foundChecked and not found: soy, eggs, fish, milk, lupin, wheat, celery, sesame, mustard, peanuts, molluscs, sulphites, tree nuts, crustaceans, gluten cereals.
Animal origin
No animal ingredients foundChecked and not found: egg, fish, meat, dairy, honey, insect, gelatin, poultry, bone char, shellfish, other animal, animal fining, animal rennet.
Gluten
None
Alcohol
None
Caffeine
None
Pork
None

Cooked together

Ingredients that go into the same catalogued dishes.
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Around the world

What chamomile is called

Names in 89 languages, from Wikidata.

  • Spanish

    Matricaria chamomilla · Manzanilla olorosa · Manzanilla vulgar · Manzanilla de Urgel

  • French

    Matricaria chamomilla · Camomille Sauvage · Petite camomille · Camomille allemande

  • Italian

    Matricaria chamomilla · Camomilla · Matricaria recutita

  • Portuguese

    Camomila-vulgar · Chamomilla chamomilla · Matricaria recutita · Chamomilla recutita

  • German

    Echte Kamille · Matricaria recutita · Chamomilla recutita · Matricaria chamomilla

  • Dutch

    echte kamille · Matricaria chamomilla · Matricaria recutita

  • Greek

    Ματρικάρια η περιτμημένη

  • Turkish

    Mayıs papatyası

  • Russian

    ромашка аптечная · Matricaria recutita · Matricaria chamomilla · ромашка лекарственная

  • Polish

    rumianek pospolity · Matricaria chamomilla · Chamomilla recutita · Matricaria recutita

  • Arabic

    بابونج ألماني · بابونج · بابونج صغير · بابونج ابيض

  • Persian

    بابونه آلمانی

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  • Albanian

    Kamomili

  • Aragonese

    Matricaria chamomilla

  • Armenian

    դեղատնային երիցուկ

  • Aromanian

    Lilici albâ

  • Asturian

    Matricaria recutita

  • Azerbaijani

    Aptek çobanyastığı

  • Bashkir

    Шифалы ромашка

  • Basque

    Kamamila · Chamomilla chamomilla · Matricaria suaveolens · Matricaria recutita

  • Belarusian

    Рамонак аптэчны · рамонак абадраны · румонак · румянка

  • Belarusian (Taraskievica orthography)

    Рамонак аптэчны · Рамонак

  • Bosnian

    Kamilica

  • Brazilian Portuguese

    Matricaria chamomilla

  • Bulgarian

    Matricaria chamomilla · лайка

  • Catalan

    camamilla · Camamilla recutita · Chamomilla recutita · Matricaria recutita

  • Cebuano

    Matricaria chamomilla

  • Central Kurdish

    بەیبوونی ئاڵمانی

  • Chinese

    德國洋甘菊 · 洋甘菊根 · 洋甘菊

  • Croatian

    kamilica · Chamomilla chamomilla · Matricaria recutita

  • Czech

    heřmánek pravý · Matricaria chamomilla

  • Danish

    vellugtende kamille · Matricaria chamomilla · Matricaria recutita

  • Egyptian Arabic

    بابونج

  • Esperanto

    kamomilo · Matricaria chamomilla

  • Estonian

    Teekummel · Courrantia chamomilloides · Chamomilla chamomilla · Valge ätse

  • Extremaduran

    Matricaria chamomilla

  • Fijian

    Chamomilla recutita

  • Finnish

    kamomillasaunio · Kamomilla · Matricaria recutita · Chamomilla recutita

  • Galician

    Macela

  • Georgian

    სამკურნალო გვირილა · ბაბუნა · Matricaria recutita

  • Guarani

    Manzanilla

  • Hungarian

    orvosi székfű · Chamomilla recutita · Matricaria recutita · Chamomilla

  • Ido

    Kamomilo

  • Igbo

    Matricaria chamomilla

  • Indonesian

    Chamomile

  • Ingush

    Дарбан моажолг

  • Interlingua

    Matricaria chamomilla

  • Interlingue

    Matricaria chamomilla

  • Irish

    Matricaria chamomilla

  • Japanese

    カモミール · カミツレ · 加密列 · カモミーユ

  • Javanese

    Kamomil

  • Kazakh

    Дәрілік түймедақ

  • Korean

    저먼캐모마일

  • Kyrgyz

    Аптека же дары ромашкасы

  • Latin

    Matricaria chamomilla · Matricaria recutita

  • Latvian

    ārstniecības kumelīte · Chamomilla chamomilla · Matricaria suaveolens · Matricaria recutita

  • Limburgish

    Maoter · Kamille

  • Lithuanian

    Vaistinė ramunė · Ramunėlė · Matricaria recutita

  • Lombard

    Matricaria chamomilla · Matricaria recutita

  • Luxembourgish

    Kaméil · Kamill · Matricaria chamomilla · Matricaria recutita

  • Macedonian

    Камилица

  • Northern Frisian

    Kamel

  • Norwegian Bokmål

    kamille · Matricaria recutita · Kamomilleblom · Chamomilla recutita

  • Norwegian Nynorsk

    Kamilleblom

  • Occitan

    Matricaria chamomilla · Matricaria recutita

  • Ossetic

    Æхсынкъмарæн

  • Pashto

    مروری

  • Piedmontese

    Matricaria chamomilla

  • Romanian

    mușețel · Matricaria recutita · romaniţă · romaniță

  • rsk

    Руменєц

  • Samogitian

    Ramonielė

  • Scots

    Matricaria chamomilla

  • Serbian

    камилица · Matricaria chamomilla

  • Serbian (Latin)

    Rimska kamilica

  • Simplified Chinese

    母菊

  • Simplified Chinese (China)

    母菊

  • Slovak

    rumanček kamilkový · harmanček pravý · rumanček pravý

  • Slovenian

    prava kamilica · Matricaria chamomilla · Chamomilla recutita · gamilica

  • Swedish

    kamomill · Matricaria chamomilla · Matricaria recutita · sötblomster

  • Traditional Chinese (Taiwan)

    德國洋甘菊

  • Tunisian Arabic (Arabic)

    بابونج · بيبونج

  • Ukrainian

    ромашка лікарська · Matricaria recutita · Chamomilla recutita

  • Urdu

    بابونہ المانی

  • Uzbek

    Matricaria chamomilla

  • Veps

    Haragaine (kazmuz)

  • Vietnamese

    Cúc La Mã

  • Volapük

    Matricaria chamomilla

  • Walloon

    Vraiye camamele

  • Waray

    Matricaria chamomilla

  • Welsh

    Amranwen bêr

  • Western Mari

    Ромашка · Matricaria recutita

  • Wu Chinese

    德国洋甘菊

  • Yakut

    Тырыттаҕас ромашка

  • Zaza

    Kekevaş

Sources and credits

Data

  • GlobeCooks editorial: descriptions, kitchen notes and classification, written by GlobeCooks from checked sources
  • Wikidata: names, classification and dishes (CC0 1.0)
  • Wikimedia Commons: photos
  • Wikipedia (English) (CC BY-SA 4.0)

Wikidata item: Q28437

Photos

Photo: Holly Victoria Norval · CC BY 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons