a use, usually medicinal, religious ritual, cosmetics or perfume production, or as a vegetable. For example, turmeric roots are consumed as a vegetable and garlic as an antibiotic.
Spices are very imporant as food and as medicine. They bring out the unique natural taste of cuisines and could be use to change the look of food to make it more attractive in colour. Some of them grow in the wild and are very good source of food preservative especially for industrially processed foods. As medicine or