" Any aromatic plant or part of a plant used as a food flavourant"
In this context the word 'spice' includes all culinary herbs and spices
In a comprehensive global analysis of over 3100 different foods published in the January 2010 edition of the Nutrition Journal, spices were found to have the highest antioxidant content of all foods.
Links To Individual Spice Pages
For more information on individual spices please click on the name of the particular spice you wish to read about.
Use this search engine to find other information and spices that may have several names e.g. Allspice is also called Pimento
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But you may not find what you are looking for on this website as the primary purpose of this site is to give information regarding the scientific research into culinary herbs and spices.
It does not mean that a spice that is not listed here does not have medicinal properties. On the contrary. All culinary herbs and spices probably have great health benefits; it's just that they have yet to attract the relevant research.
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