Food preparation has become an art. One of the biggest reasons for this is the way that spices and seasonings are used to create exciting new flavors. A spice is a vegetation product that has an aromatic or pungent to the taste quality which is used for flavoring while cooking. On the other hand, a seasoning is a mixture of several flavoring components such as sugars, salts and spices. Thus, a spice can thought of as a subset of a seasoning.