Spices

Spices - a dried seeds, fruits, roots, bark or vegetative substance added to food in small quantities as a food additive for seasoning, and indirectly, for the sake of destruction and prevent growth of pathogenic bacteria.

Many of the same substances (spices) have other appointments and the use to which they are mentioned in accordance with different qualities, such as for storage of food, medicine, religious rituals, cosmetics, perfumery or as vegetables. For example, turmeric is also used as a preservative; licorice as a medical tool; garlic as a vegetable and nutmeg as a recreational medications.

Spices are distinguished from herbs, which are covered with foliage, green parts of plants used for seasoning. These herbs like basil or oregano can be used in the food fresh, and usually divided into smaller parts. Spices, however, almost always dry and usually ground in powder.

Salt - the most common seasoning, which is often regarded as a spice, but it is believed that this, in fact, a mineral product.

The basic classification of spices:

• Leaves and / or branches of aromatic plants, all or part of the plant can be used as someone like that. Basil, bay leaf, parsley, rosemary, tarragon and thyme - are good examples of herbal spices.
• Ripening fruit or seeds of plants. Examples of these include spices, dill, fennel, mustard and new mexico green chile.
• The roots or bulbs of certain plants, garlic and ginger, for example.