Spice

dried seed, fruit, root, bark, or vegetable substance primarily used for flavoring, coloring or preserving food

Spice is an ingredient that adds flavor to food. It is usually used to enrich or alter the quality of something. Spices can be used to give food an interesting and exciting taste.

Shop with spices in Morocco

Examples of a spice would be cinnamon, fenugreek and nutmeg.

Spices can also be used to hide or cover up bad tastes in the food, because it is rotten or affected by fungi, e.g. marzipan.

Indians and Pakistanis use a lot of spices like turmeric

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