The Health Benefits of Nutmeg: Nutmeg bears fixed oil trimyristin & many important volatile oils like which leaves sweet aromatic flavor to nutmeg such as myristicin, elemicin, eugenol & safrole. Another volatile oils are pinene, camphene, cineole, linalool, dipentene, sabinene, safrole, terpeniol. Nutmeg spice bears numerous plant derived chemical compounds that are recognized to ... more.