Condiment

A condiment is a substance applied to food, usually in the form of a sauce, powder, or spread, to enhance or improve the flavour. Condiments are typically smeared with knives, squirted, or sprinkled onto other foods.

Related Topics:
Food - Sauce

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Commercially prepared condiments are usually packaged in glass or plastic containers. Plastic has displaced glass in a number of applications where plastic's squeezability is an advantage, such as for ketchup, mustard, mayonnaise, and other condiments with a paste-like consistency.

Related Topics:
Glass - Plastic - Ketchup - Mustard - Mayonnaise

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Some commercial venues (especially packaged meals dispensed by airlines and in some cafeterias), condiments are packaged in single-serving packets.

Related Topics:
Meal - Cafeterias

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Examples of condiments include:

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• Belacan
• Chili oil
• Chutneys
• Fish sauce
• Fry sauce
• Hot sauces based on chili, including Tabasco sauce
• HP Sauce
• Ketchup
• Mayonnaise
• Mixed pickle
• Mustard
• Pepper
• raita
• Red pepper flakes
• Relish
• Remoulade
• salsa
• Salt
• Sauerkraut (sometimes seen as a condiment on sausages or hot dogs, occasionally seen as a side dish)
• Soy sauce
• Spaghetti sauce
• Steak sauces such as A1 and Heinz 57
• Tabasco sauce
• Tartar sauce
• Trassi
• Wasabi
• Worcestershire sauce

There is also a list of condiments.

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