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Spice facts for kids

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Morocco, Spices
Shop with spices in Morocco

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 use alot of spices like turmeric.

Spices are sometimes used in medicine, religious rituals, cosmetics or perfume production.


Images for kids

  • Le livre des merveilles de Marco Polo-pepper

    "The Mullus" harvesting pepper. Illustration from a French edition of The Travels of Marco Polo.

  • Common Indian spices

    Chili powder, mustard seeds, turmeric powder, cumin seeds

  • Spice-shelf

    A shelf of common spices for a home kitchen in Canada or the United States

  • Peugeot pepper mill

    Pepper mill

  • Spices in an Indian market

    Spices and herbs at a shop in Goa, India

  • Gato negro

    The Gato Negro café and spice shop (Buenos Aires, Argentina)

  • Spice shop, Mashad, Iran

    A spice shop selling a variety of spices in Iran

  • Night Spice market in Casablanca

    Night spice shop in Casablanca, Morocco.

  • Taliparamba Market

    A spice shop in Taliparamba, India

  • Taliparamba grocery

    Spices sold in Taliparamba, India

  • Spice seller, Kashgar market

    Spice seller, Kashgar market

  • Spice Market, Marakech (2242330035)

    Spice market, Marrakesh, Morocco

See also

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