**6. Conclusion**

Spices are not essential but still have become most important part of our daily routine. The spices makes food attractive and palatable with flavour, colour, taste and aroma. By using healthy and tasty spices, the use of less healthy ingredients can be minimised. Many health problems are prevailing in human being, now a days. The spices are tasty and attractive. In addition, they also possess bioactives which acts as nutraceuticals, and are found to be effective against variety of health problems. The spices like turmeric, nutmeg, pepper, star anise, ginger, garlic, coriander, cumin, cinnamon, fenugreek and Bishop's weed are being using as spices since long. Their medical benefits have been proven. These spices will not only make our food tasty and attractive but their proper use in routine life will keep us healthy.

*Tasty Spices as Nutraceuticals DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5772/intechopen.108904*
