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Spice Paste

Spice paste is a moist blend of spices and aromatics used to season marinades, sauces, and cooked dishes.

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About Spice Paste

Spice paste is a moist, spreadable mixture of ground spices and usually one or more aromatic ingredients, such as fresh herbs, roots, seeds, chilies, garlic, or onion. It is a preparation category rather than one fixed recipe.

It is stirred into marinades, sauces, soups, stews, curries, and other cooked dishes, where it disperses seasoning more evenly than whole or dry spices. Flavour can range from fragrant and mild to hot, bitter, sour, or intensely savoury.

Its colour, coarseness, moisture, salt level, and oil content depend on the ingredients and grinding method. Commercial and homemade versions may be raw, fried, fermented, salted, oil-packed, or preserved with another ingredient; these forms change how readily the paste spreads and cooks.

Ingredient type
paste

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Spice Paste

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Spice Paste nutrition & diet

Spice Paste nutritional value

Representative benchmark: Sauce, not further specified

Representative nutrition benchmarkOfficial table values for a comparable food category, not a laboratory measurement of this exact ingredient.

Per 100 g of 100 g edible portion in the named official reference form.

Calories
116kcal
Protein
1.6g
Carbs
25.9g
Fat
0.4g

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Portions & preparation

Establish the paste’s exact spices, aromatics, oil or water base, and preparation before interpreting a portion. Fresh, jarred, dried-rehydrated, fermented, and cooked pastes are different forms. Added sugar, salt, nuts, seeds, starches, or preservatives belong to the specific recipe being assessed.

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Diet considerations

A spice paste is a blend, so plant or animal origin cannot be assumed from the name alone. Recipes may contain dairy, fish, shellfish, meat, or animal fats, alongside cereal thickeners or coatings. Brand, regional recipe, and portion determine compatibility and carbohydrate patterns.

AI-authored reading notes · Awaiting editorial review. Measured values, where available, have a separate source above.

Dietary compatibility

  • Vegan
    Not established
  • Vegetarian
    Not established
  • Pescatarian
    Not established
  • Keto
    Not established
  • Paleo
    Not established
  • Low-carb
    Not established
  • Halal
    Not established
  • Kosher
    Not established
What these diet assessments mean
Vegan · Not established
The available profile does not establish the full composition or processing for this dietary pattern.
Vegetarian · Not established
The available profile does not establish the full composition or processing for this dietary pattern.
Pescatarian · Not established
The available profile does not establish the full composition or processing for this dietary pattern.
Keto · Not established
A defined serving and sourced carbohydrate data are needed before assessing this dietary pattern.
Paleo · Not established
The ingredient form and processing have not been assessed against this dietary pattern.
Low-carb · Not established
A defined serving and sourced carbohydrate data are needed before assessing this dietary pattern.
Halal · Not established
Sourcing, processing and any applicable certification have not been verified. A food name alone does not establish halal status.
Kosher · Not established
Sourcing, processing and any applicable certification have not been verified. A food name alone does not establish kosher status.

For the plain ingredient · Awaiting review. Diet compatibility is not allergy suitability or halal/kosher certification. Keto and low-carb depend on the portion.

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Sources & review

Nutrition reference: Pacific Nutrient Database 2020 — 01.1.9.3.9_98 ↗. Values are scaled from 100 g of the recorded edible form. Individual portions have no assumed fixed weight.

Expanded overview, name examples and nutrition notes are database drafts awaiting editorial review. Numeric nutrition values, where shown, have their own source and food-form reference.

The ingredient description and dish connections come from the draft catalogue and may change after review.

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