Ingredient: Unveiling the Essential Elements of FoodThere are ingredients, and then there are Ingredients. An ingredient is what were used to thinking about in the kitchen things like tomatoes, tofu or thyme. An Ingredient is what those things are made of. There are millions of ingredients, but only eight Ingredients: Waters, Sugars, Carbs, Lipids, Proteins, Minerals, Gases and Heat. Ingredient isnt a book of recipes instead, its about learning to see beneath the surface of food, exposing the moving