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Seasoning vs Ingredient - What's the difference?

seasoning | ingredient |

As nouns the difference between seasoning and ingredient

is that seasoning is (cooking) something used to add taste or flavour to food, such as a condiment, herb or spice while ingredient is ingredient.

As a verb seasoning

is .

seasoning

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (cooking) Something used to add taste or flavour to food, such as a condiment, herb or spice.
  • A coat of burnt soot inside a cooking vessel, which has formed over repeated use, and which renders the surface non sticking.
  • Hyponyms

    * See also

    Verb

    (head)
  • ingredient

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • One of the substances present in a mixture.
  • * Sir Isaac Newton
  • By way of analysis we may proceed from compounds to ingredients .
  • * Arbuthnot
  • Water is the chief ingredient in all the animal fluids and solids.

    Holonyms

    * mixture