Deciding whether a seasoning is a spice or an herb is a matter of custom and of regulation by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. But generally, spices are considered to come from tropical aromatics, such as pepper, cinnamon and cloves, and tropical seeds, such as poppy and mustard seeds.
Herbs are the leaves of temperate-zone plants.
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