Food Ingredients
Comprehensive information on food ingredients, allergens and food additives
Bechamel sauce
Animal-derived
Béchamel is a classic French white sauce, one of the five 'mother sauces' of traditional French cuisine. It is made …
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Beet sugar
Not animal-derived
Beet sugar, also known as sucrose, is a type of sugar derived from sugar beet plants. The sugar beet root …
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Carrot Puree
Not animal-derived
Carrot puree is a smooth paste made from cooked and blended carrots. Carrots are root vegetables, typically orange in colour, …
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Casing
Animal-derived
Casings are the outer covering of sausages, formed from animal intestines or synthetic materials. Natural casings are typically made from …
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Chocolate sauce
Animal-derived
Chocolate sauce is a sweet, liquid or semi-liquid sauce made primarily from cocoa solids, sugar, and water. It is often …
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Clementine
Not animal-derived
A clementine is a type of easy-peeling, sweet, juicy citrus fruit, a hybrid of a mandarin orange and a sweet …
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Dark Muscovado Sugar
Not animal-derived
Dark muscovado sugar is an unrefined cane sugar with a moist texture and a strong molasses flavour. It is produced …
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Fruit
Not animal-derived
Fruits are the sweet and fleshy product of a tree or other plant that contains seed and can be eaten …
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Green split pea
Not animal-derived
Green split peas are dried, polished, and split mature green peas (Pisum sativum). They are a type of legume, commonly …
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Guarana
Not animal-derived
Guarana is a plant native to the Amazon basin. Its seeds are dried, roasted, and ground into a powder. This …
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Hop extract
Not animal-derived
Hop extract is a concentrated form of compounds derived from hops (Humulus lupulus), a flowering plant. These compounds are typically …
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Hydrogenated coconut oil
Not animal-derived
Hydrogenated coconut oil is a type of fat derived from coconut oil. It is produced by a process called hydrogenation, …
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Jumbo Oats
Not animal-derived
Jumbo oats are whole oat grains that have been dehulled and steamed to deactivate enzymes, then rolled into large, flat …
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Liquorice
Not animal-derived
Liquorice is a herbaceous perennial plant, Glycyrrhiza glabra, native to southern Europe and parts of Asia. The characteristic flavour comes …
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Liquorice root
Not animal-derived
Liquorice root comes from the perennial herb Glycyrrhiza glabra, native to southern Europe and parts of Asia. The root is …
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Low Sodium Sea Salt
Not animal-derived
Low sodium sea salt is a salt substitute that typically contains potassium chloride mixed with sodium chloride. It is produced …
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Marsala wine
Marsala is a fortified wine originating from Sicily, Italy. It is made from indigenous Sicilian grapes and is fortified with …
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Milk Chocolate Flavour Coating
Animal-derived
Milk chocolate flavour coating is a confectionery ingredient designed to mimic the taste and appearance of milk chocolate. It is …
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Milk chocolate with sweetener
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Oligofructose syrup
Not animal-derived
Oligofructose syrup is a viscous liquid sweetener made from chicory root. The plant's natural inulin fibre is hydrolysed to produce …
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Pastry
Pastry is a dough of flour, water, and shortening (solid fats, like butter or lard) that is baked. It is …
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Peach juice from concentrate
Not animal-derived
Peach juice from concentrate is made by extracting juice from peaches, then concentrating it by removing water. This concentrate is …
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Pear juice concentrate
Not animal-derived
Pear juice concentrate is made by removing water from pear juice. This process intensifies the natural sugars, flavour, and colour …
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Pectin
Not animal-derived
Pectin is a naturally occurring polysaccharide found in the cell walls of plants, particularly in fruits like apples and citrus. …
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Pink salmon
Animal-derived
Pink salmon (Oncorhynchus gorbuscha) is a species of wild salmon native to the North Pacific Ocean. It is a commercially …
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Pomegranate juice
Not animal-derived
Pomegranate juice is the liquid extracted from the seeds, pulp, and juice sacs of the pomegranate fruit. Pomegranates are native …
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Roasted peanut
Not animal-derived
Peanuts are legumes, not tree nuts, grown underground. They are typically roasted to enhance their flavour and aroma before being …
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Rose petals
Not animal-derived
Rose petals are the fragrant, colourful parts of the rose flower. They are harvested from various species of roses, with …
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Sorghum flour
Not animal-derived
Sorghum flour is milled from sorghum, a cereal grain that is a staple food in parts of Africa, Asia, and …
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Teriyaki sauce
Teriyaki sauce is a glossy, sweet and savoury sauce originating from Japan. It is traditionally made by simmering soy sauce, …
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Unrefined sugar
Not animal-derived
Unrefined sugar, also known as raw sugar, is sugar that has not undergone extensive processing or refining. It retains more …
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Vanilla seeds
Not animal-derived
Vanilla seeds are the tiny, black, oil-rich seeds found within the cured pods of the vanilla orchid, native to Mexico …
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Wheat Flour Calcium Carbonate
Not animal-derived
Wheat flour is the finely ground powder of wheat grains. It is a staple ingredient in baking and cooking, forming …
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Wheat Flour Wheat Flour
Not animal-derived
Wheat flour is a powder made from the milling of wheat grain. It is a staple ingredient in baking and …
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Acacia fibre
Not animal-derived
Acacia fibre, also known as gum arabic, is a soluble dietary fibre derived from the sap of the acacia tree, …
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Acai berry
Not animal-derived
Acai berries are small, dark purple fruits native to the Amazon rainforest. They grow on acai palm trees and are …
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Algal carotenes
E160aiv
Not animal-derived
Algal carotenes are a group of naturally occurring pigments found in algae. They are extracted from various species of algae, …
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Asparagus
Not animal-derived
Asparagus is a perennial flowering plant species in the genus Asparagus. Native to most of Europe, western Asia and northern …
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Barbecue sauce
Barbecue sauce, often shortened to BBQ sauce, is a savoury and often sweet condiment used to flavour food. Its origins …
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Barley malt syrup
Not animal-derived
Barley malt syrup is a thick, dark brown, intensely sweet liquid sweetener derived from malted barley. The malting process involves …
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Beeswax White
Animal-derived
White beeswax is a refined form of beeswax, a natural wax produced by honey bees. It is produced by melting …
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Caramel flavouring
Caramel flavouring is a substance that imparts a caramel taste and aroma to food. It can be derived from the …
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Chlorophyllins
E140ii
Not animal-derived
Chlorophyllins are water-soluble derivatives of chlorophyll, the natural green pigment found in plants. They are produced by the alkaline hydrolysis …
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Cooked white rice
Not animal-derived
Cooked white rice is a staple food made from the grain Oryza sativa, which has been milled to remove its …
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Crystallised Ginger
Not animal-derived
Crystallised ginger is made by simmering pieces of fresh ginger root in a sugar syrup until tender, then coating them …
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Dimethyl polysiloxane
E900a
Not animal-derived
Dimethyl polysiloxane is a synthetic silicone polymer. It is produced by polymerising dimethylsiloxane, a cyclic siloxane monomer. It is a …
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Elderberry juice
Not animal-derived
Elderberry juice is derived from the dark purple berries of the elder tree (Sambucus nigra). The berries are typically pressed …
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Flax flour
Not animal-derived
Flax flour, also known as linseed flour, is made from ground flaxseeds. Flaxseeds are small seeds from the flax plant …
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Grapefruit juice
Not animal-derived
Grapefruit juice is the liquid extracted from the flesh of grapefruits, a citrus fruit. It is typically produced by squeezing …
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Harissa
Not animal-derived
Harissa is a North African hot chili paste, originating from Tunisia. It is typically made from a blend of roasted …
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