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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

  • Spices1

    Spices at central market in Agadir, Morocco

  • Le livre des merveilles de Marco Polo-pepper

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

  • Spice-shelf

    A typical home's kitchen shelf of spices as would be seen in the United States or Canada.

  • Pikante Gemüse-Tatre (26185570614)

    Spicy Food

  • Taliparamba Market

    A spice shop in Taliparamba, India

  • Taliparamba grocery

    Spices sold in Taliparamba, India

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