Spice
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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.
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
Spice Media
"The Mullus" harvesting pepper. Illustration from a French edition of The Travels of Marco Polo.
A plate of Indian herbs and spices
Spices and herbs at a shop in Goa, India
The Gato Negro café and spice shop (Buenos Aires, Argentina)