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Acesulfame potassium
Acesulfame potassium (acesulfame K, Ace-K, E 950, INS 950) is a calorie-free high-intensity sweetener, the potassium salt of 6-methyl-1,2,3-oxathiazin-4(3H)-one-2,2-dioxide, about 200 times sweeter than sucrose, with an ADI of 15 mg/kg bw/day.
Acids in wine
Acids in wine: organic acids, chiefly tartaric and malic from grapes plus lactic, acetic, citric, and succinic, that govern pH, titratable acidity, taste, stability, and malolactic fermentation management.
Acquired taste
Acquired taste: an appreciation for a food or drink unlikely to be enjoyed without substantial exposure, such as coffee or broccoli. Learned mainly through repeated exposure, flavor conditioning, and social influence, not genes.
Adam Liaw
Adam Liaw is an Australian cook, writer and broadcaster, winner of MasterChef Australia season 2 (2010) and host of SBS's Destination Flavour and The Cook Up; former Disney lawyer in Tokyo, author of nine cookbooks and co-Managing Director of i8 Studio.
Adam Richman
Adam Richman (born 1974, Brooklyn, NY) is an American TV host and author, original host of Travel Channel's Man v. Food (2008–2012) and later The Food That Built America, Modern Marvels, and Secret Eats.
ADM (company)
ADM (Archer-Daniels-Midland Company), NYSE: ADM, is a Chicago-based agricultural processor and nutrition company founded in 1902 as Daniels Linseed Co., operating Ag Services and Oilseeds, Carbohydrate Solutions, and Nutrition segments worldwide.
Adobada
Adobada (also spelled adovada) is Mexican and Southwestern pork marinated in a red chile-and-vinegar adobo, griddled for tacos or braised as New Mexican carne adovada; a northern cousin of al pastor without the pineapple.
Adobo
Adobo is the unofficial national dish of the Philippines and a cooking method: meat braised in vinegar, soy sauce or salt, garlic, and peppercorns. Distinct from Spanish and Mexican adobo despite the shared Spanish name.
Adolph Coors
Adolph Coors (Adolph Herrman Kohrs, 1847-1929) was the Prussian-born founder of the Golden Brewery in Golden, Colorado, established with Jacob Schueler in 1873; his company survived Prohibition on malted milk and porcelain, becoming Coors Brewing and CoorsTek.
Adriano Zumbo
Adriano Zumbo, the Sweet Assassin or Patissier of Pain, is an Australian pâtissier from Coonamble known for the V8 cake, Zumbarons, MasterChef pressure tests, Zumbo's Just Desserts, Netflix's Sugar Rush, and his 2018 voluntary administration.
Adulterant
An adulterant is a substance secretly added to food or other products to cheapen production or fake value; economically motivated adulteration (EMA) is its deliberate form, driving food fraud costing $10–$40 billion yearly.
Advocaat
Advocaat (advocatenborrel) is a Dutch egg liqueur of egg yolk, sugar, and brandy; EU law requires at least 14% ABV, 140 g/L egg yolk, and 150 g/L sugar, distinguishing it from thinner liqueur with egg.
Æbleskiver
Æbleskiver (aebleskiver, ebelskiver) are Danish round pancake puffs fried in a seven-well cast-iron pan, served with powdered sugar, jam, and gløgg at Christmas. Named "apple slices" after the original apple-filled medieval version; oldest printed recipe 1703.
AeroPress
AeroPress: manual coffee brewer invented by engineer Alan Adler, introduced at Coffee Fest Seattle in November 2005. Combines immersion, paper micro-filtration, and plunger-driven air pressure for fast single-cup brewing; home of the World AeroPress Championship.
Afghan cuisine
Afghan cuisine, the traditional cooking of Afghanistan, blends Persian, Central Asian, Turkic, and South Asian traditions; known for qabuli palau (national dish), mantu dumplings, naan, kebabs, aromatic rather than fiery spicing, and deep hospitality customs.
African cuisine
African cuisine is the collective term for the continent's diverse culinary traditions, covering North, West, East, and Southern African cooking, indigenous staples such as sorghum, millet, cassava, and yam, fermentation-based preservation, and diaspora exchange.
After Eight
After Eight is a British thin mint chocolate launched by Rowntree in 1962 and made by Nestlé since 1988: peppermint fondant in dark chocolate, invertase-liquefied filling, first mint-free flavors in 2026.
AGA cooker
AGA cooker: cast-iron heat-storage range cooker invented 1922 by Swedish Nobel physicist Gustaf Dalén (Aktiebolaget Gas Accumulator), sold in Britain from 1929, made in Telford since 1947, cooking by radiant heat from fixed-temperature ovens.
Aging of wine
Aging of wine covers post-bottling redox chemistry of phenolics, oxygen ingress through closures (0.05-89 mg/year OTR), storage temperature effects, and emerging underwater and accelerated aging techniques.
Agmark
Agmark is India's voluntary certification mark for graded agricultural produce, administered by the Directorate of Marketing and Inspection under the Agricultural Produce (Grading and Marking) Act, 1937. Distinct from FSSAI food safety and BIS ISI marks; Certificate of Authorisation, CAL Nagpur and Regional Agmark Laboratories.
Agnolotti
Agnolotti: Piedmontese stuffed pasta filled with cooked roast meat, related to ravioli; known especially as agnolotti del plin, tiny parcels sealed by finger pinch, served with roast juices, sage butter, broth, or on a napkin.
Agricultural Adjustment Act
The Agricultural Adjustment Act is a 1933 United States federal law that raised farm prices by paying farmers to reduce production, a key New Deal measure.
Agricultural policy
Agricultural policy: government laws and programs for farming, food supply, farm incomes, trade, and rural areas. Key instruments are direct payments, price support, tariffs, quotas, and rural development; the EU's CAP (1962) is the leading example.
Agricultural produce market committee
An Agricultural Produce Market Committee (APMC, mandi) is a statutory state-level body in India regulating wholesale trade of notified agricultural produce in designated market yards, operating under state APMC Acts, levying fees, licensing traders, and increasingly integrating with the e-NAM electronic platform.
Aguardiente
Aguardiente (Spanish/Portuguese aguardente, "burning water") is a general term for distilled spirits, chiefly sugarcane liquor in Latin America; in Brazil a byproduct of sugar mills used as trade currency, in Colombia an anise-flavored national drink.
Ahold Delhaize
Ahold Delhaize (Koninklijke Ahold Delhaize N.V.) is a Dutch food retail group formed by the 2016 merger of Royal Ahold and Delhaize Group, headquartered in Zaandam, with 17 local brands, 9,551 stores, and 77 million weekly customers across the US, Europe, and Indonesia.
Aioli
Aioli (allioli, aïoli) is a Mediterranean garlic-and-olive-oil emulsion, traditionally egg-free and made in a mortar; Provençal versions add yolk, and US menus usually mean garlic mayonnaise.
Ajinomoto (味の素)
Ajinomoto (味の素, "essence of taste") is a Japanese umami seasoning, monosodium glutamate, launched in 1909 by Saburosuke Suzuki II from Kikunae Ikeda's 1908 discovery of umami, and the global food and biotech company behind it.
Ajvar
Ajvar (ајвар) is a Balkan roasted red pepper spread with oil, salt, and vinegar; eggplant optional. Name from Turkish havyar. Serbia and North Macedonia both protect ajvar names; origin is shared and disputed.
Akshaya Patra Foundation
The Akshaya Patra Foundation (TAPF) is a Bengaluru-headquartered NGO, founded in 2000 by Madhu Pandit Dasa and Chanchalapathi Dasa with ISKCON roots, that implements India's PM POSHAN mid-day meal programme, serving over 2.35 million children daily from kitchens across 16 states and 3 union territories.