Dictionary Definition
ingredient
Noun
1 a component of a mixture or compound
2 an abstract part of something; "jealousy was a
component of his character"; "two constituents of a musical
composition are melody and harmony"; "the grammatical elements of a
sentence"; "a key factor in her success"; "humor: an effective
ingredient of a speech" [syn: component, constituent, element, factor]
3 food that is a component of a mixture in
cooking; "the recipe lists all the fixings for a salad" [syn:
fixings]
User Contributed Dictionary
Pronunciation
- /inˈgɹiːdiːən̩t/
Related terms
Translations
one of the parts of a whole
- Arabic: (muqáwwim)
- Chinese: 成份 (chéngfèn)
- Czech: přísada, ingredience
- Dutch: ingrediënt , bestanddeel
- Finnish: valmistusaine, aines, ainesosa
- French: ingrédient
- German: Bestandteil , Ingredienz , Inhaltsstoff , Zutat
- trreq Hebrew
- Hungarian: alkotórész, alkatrész, hozzávaló
- Italian: ingrediente
- Japanese: 成分 (せいぶん, seibun), 原材料 (げんざいりょう, genzairyō), 食材 (しょくざい, shokuzai)
- Latin: pars
- trreq Old English
- trreq Persian
- Portuguese: ingrediente
- Russian: составная часть (sostavnája čast’) , ингредиент (ingrediént)
- Spanish: ingrediente
- Swedish: ingrediens
- trreq Turkish
Extensive Definition
portal Food
- This article is about ingredients in general. There is also an American soul and R&B group called The Main Ingredient.
An ingredient is a substance that forms part of a
mixture (in a general sense). For example, in cooking, recipes specify which ingredients
are used to prepare a specific dish. Many commercial products
contain a secret
ingredient that is purported to make them better than competing
products. In the pharmaceutical industry, an active
ingredient is that part of a formulation that yields the
effect required by the customer.
National laws usually require prepared food
products to display a list of ingredients, and specifically require
that certain additives
be listed.
In most developed countries, the law requires
that ingredients be listed according to their relative quantity in
the product. If an ingredient consists of more than one ingredient
(such as cookie pieces in cookies and cream ice cream) then that
ingredient is listed by what percentage of the total product it
occupies, with its own ingredients displayed next to it in
brackets.
ingredient in Danish: Ingrediens (mad)
ingredient in German: Inhaltsstoff
ingredient in French: Ingrédient de
cuisine
ingredient in Indonesian: Bumbu dapur
ingredient in Italian: Ingrediente
ingredient in Dutch: Ingrediënt
ingredient in Portuguese: Ingrediente
ingredient in Sundanese: Bungbu dapur
ingredient in Ukrainian: Інгредієнт
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
adjunct, appurtenance, aspect, census, circumstance, component, composition, constituent, constituents, content, contents, detail, divisions, element, elements, factor, feature, fixings, guts, index, ingredients, innards, insides, integrant, inventory, item, items, list, makings, part, part and parcel, parts, specialty, whole