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Flavor. Various; creamy texture. Ingredients. Water and a grain, pseudocereal, legume, nut, seed, or coconut. Amazake, Japanese rice milk. Plant milk is a non- dairy beverage made from a water-based plant extract for flavoring and aroma. [ 1][ 2] Plant milks are consumed as alternatives to dairy milk, and may provide a creamy mouthfeel. [ 3]
List of food origins. Some foods have always been common in every continent, such as many seafood and plants. Examples of these are honey, ants, mussels, crabs and coconuts. Nikolai Vavilov initially identified the centers of origin for eight crop plants, subdividing them further into twelve groups in 1935. [ 1]
Coffee bean. A coffee bean is a seed from the Coffea plant and the source for coffee. It is the pit inside the red or purple fruit. This fruit is often referred to as a coffee cherry, and like the cherry, it is a fruit with a pit. Even though the coffee beans are not technically beans, they are referred to as such because of their resemblance ...
Mustard is a condiment made from the seeds of a mustard plant (white/yellow mustard, Sinapis alba; brown mustard, Brassica juncea; or black mustard, Brassica nigra ). The whole, ground, cracked, or bruised mustard seeds are mixed with water, vinegar, lemon juice, wine, or other liquids, salt, and often other flavorings and spices, to create a ...
The officer who received the coffee beans, Jerzy Franciszek Kulczycki (Georg Franz Kolschitzky), a Polish military officer, opened a coffee house and helped popularize the custom of adding sugar and milk to the coffee. [44] Melange is the typical Viennese coffee, which comes mixed with hot foamed milk, and is usually served with a glass of water.
The first step is to prepare the cultures by inoculating milk with 2–3% grains as described. The grains are then removed by filtration and 1–3% of the resulting liquid mother culture is added to milk and fermented for 12 to 18 hours. [42] Kefir can be made using freeze-dried cultures commonly available in powder form from health food stores ...
Chia seed. Chia seeds are the edible seeds of Salvia hispanica, a flowering plant in the mint family ( Lamiaceae) native to central and southern Mexico, [ 1] or of the related Salvia columbariae, Salvia polystachia, or Salvia tiliifolia. Chia seeds are oval and gray with black and white spots, having a diameter of around 2 millimetres (0.08 in).
The color of poppy seeds is important in some uses. According to The Joy of Cooking, "the most desirable come from Holland and are a slate-blue color." [11] When used as a thickener in some dishes, white poppy seeds are preferred, having less impact on the color of the food. In other dishes, black poppy seeds are preferred, for maximum impact.