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Spices at a central market in Agadir, Morocco A group of Indian herbs and spices in bowls Spices of Saúde flea market, São Paulo, Brazil. In the culinary arts, a spice is any seed, fruit, root, bark, or other plant substance in a form primarily used for flavoring or coloring food.
This page is a sortable table of plants used as herbs and/or spices.This includes plants used as seasoning agents in foods or beverages (including teas), plants used for herbal medicine, and plants used as incense or similar ingested or partially ingested ritual components.
Cloves are the aromatic flower buds of a tree in the family Myrtaceae, Syzygium aromaticum (/ s ɪ ˈ z ɪ dʒ iː ə m ˌ ær ə ˈ m æ t ɪ k ə m /). [2] [3] They are native to the Maluku Islands, or Moluccas, in Indonesia, and are commonly used as a spice, flavoring, or fragrance in consumer products, such as toothpaste, soaps, or cosmetics.
A spice market in Istanbul. Night spice market in Casablanca. This is a list of culinary herbs and spices. Specifically these are food or drink additives of mostly botanical origin used in nutritionally insignificant quantities for flavoring or coloring. This list does not contain fictional plants such as aglaophotis, or recreational drugs such ...
The plant used to make the Hungarian version of the spice was first grown in 1569. Central European paprika was hot until the 1920s, when a Szeged breeder found a plant that produced sweet fruit, which he grafted onto other plants. [9] The first recorded use of the word paprika in English is from 1831. [13]
Ginger (Zingiber officinale) is a flowering plant whose rhizome, ginger root or ginger, is widely used as a spice and a folk medicine. [2] It is an herbaceous perennial that grows annual pseudostems (false stems made of the rolled bases of leaves) about one meter tall, bearing narrow leaf blades.
Black pepper is the world's most traded spice, [5] and is one of the most common spices added to cuisines around the world. Its spiciness is due to the chemical compound piperine , which is a different kind of spiciness from that of capsaicin characteristic of chili peppers .
It is also the name of a spice mixture that includes the herb along with toasted sesame seeds, dried sumac, often salt, and other spices. [1] As a family of related Levantine herbs, it contains plants from the genera Origanum , Calamintha (basil thyme), Thymus (typically Thymus vulgaris, i.e., thyme), and Satureja (savory) plants. [2]