Spice

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 food which is rotten or affected by fungi, e.g. marzipan.

Indians use a lot of spices like garam masala.

 Related pages 
 Spice trade
 Condiment