Spicy Nutrition

Spices and herbs do more than add flavor to foods and beverages. For one thing, they can often be used to reduce sodium levels. They also meet some of today’s food and beverage trends: natural, clean label, and plant based. In addition, some herbs and spices are thought to be inherently healthy, containing antioxidant and anti-inflammatory compounds that may benefit health.

Lu et al. (2017), for example, demonstrated that some spice extracts displayed prebiotic-like activity by prom…