A field guide to the world’s ingredients

What the world cooks with.

A growing guide to ingredients: how to use each one, how it tastes, what it is called in other languages, the dishes that use it from country to country, and what 100 g of it holds. Built from open data, with every source shown.

ingredients: 500
dishes: 1,733
countries: 193
languages: 431

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Table salt: Dubravko Sorić SoraZG on Flickr · CC BY 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Onion: Ocdp · CC0 1.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Garlic: Ivar Leidus · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Egg: Flixtey · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Sugar: Lauri Andler (Phantom) · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Rice: Musclewingz Yueyua · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Coconut milk: Meursault2004 · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Potato: McKay Savage from London, UK · CC BY 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Chili pepper: Takeaway · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Flour: Famartin · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Chicken: Sakurai Midori · CC BY 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Tomato: Wilfredor · CC0 1.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Pork: Father.Jack from Coventry, UK · CC BY 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Beef: F ASTILY · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Milk: Santeri Viinamäki · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Cheese: Daderot · CC0 1.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Butter: Jacek Halicki · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Coconut: Tom Ek · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Peanut: Ivar Leidus · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Almond: Ivar Leidus · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Edible mushroom: Mutney · CC BY 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Fish: Petar Milošević · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Olive oil: Jacek Halicki · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Bread: Bake Across Europe · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Water: Forbes Johnston from Winchester, UK · CC BY 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Shallot: HaJunkiyada · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Palm oil: DromoTetteh · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Yam: Fumikas Sagisavas · CC0 1.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Crayfish: JIP · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Cooking banana: Vis M · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Sour cream: jules · CC BY 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Corn tortilla: Ll1324 · CC0 1.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Wheat tortilla: Ocdp · CC0 1.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Tortilla: Erik Cleves Kristensen · CC BY 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Gravy: Scott Veg · CC BY 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons

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