Concentrates for bouillons, broths, soups, sauces, gravies, dishes, side dishes, or for use as garnishing or seasoning containing dry herbs and/or vegetables, which concentrate is in the form of a solid body or bodies having a weight of 2-250 g, in particular a cube, block, or tablet shape, which yield a soup, sauce etcetera upon dilution with (hot) water or an aqueous liquid, or can be used as a (side)dish, seasoning or garnishing, and wherein the dry herbs and/or vegetables are present in or with the concentrate as one or more compressed particles or layers.