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Mineral water
Mineral water, or natural mineral water (eau minérale naturelle), is legally defined underground water with constant mineral composition, bottled untreated at source; distinct from spring and purified water, regulated by Codex, EU Directive 2009/54/EC, and FDA standards.
Minestrone
Minestrone (minestróne) is a thick Italian vegetable soup with beans, pasta, or rice, an augmentative of minestra. No canonical recipe exists; Artusi published it in 1891, and versions include alla milanese and alla genovese.
Ming Tsai
Ming Tsai (born 1964) is an American chef known for East-West cuisine, Emmy-winning host of Food Network's East Meets West and PBS's Simply Ming, James Beard winner, founder of MingsBings.
Minimum support price (India)
Minimum Support Price (MSP) is a price fixed by the Government of India to guarantee purchase of notified crops, protecting farmers from distress sales and ensuring food grain procurement.
Ministry of Agriculture and Commerce
The Ministry of Agriculture and Commerce (農商務省) was a ministry of the Empire of Japan, based in Tokyo, that administered agriculture, forestry, commerce, and industry from 1881 to 1925.
Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (United Kingdom)
The Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (MAFF) was a UK government department overseeing agriculture, horticulture, fisheries, and food from 1955 until 2001, when it was abolished and replaced by Defra.
Minnesota sushi
Minnesota sushi is the nickname for pickle roll-ups: deli ham spread with cream cheese, wrapped around a dill pickle, sliced into rounds. Also called Midwest or Lutheran sushi; a Midwestern potluck staple, not actual sushi.
Mint (candy)
Mint candy: confectionery flavored with peppermint, spearmint, or menthol, from hard-boiled mints to candy canes and breath mints; cooked sucrose-corn syrup glass, 2-3% moisture, growing sugar-free market.
Mint julep
Mint julep: a bourbon cocktail of sugar, water, mint, and crushed ice in a frosted metal cup; official drink of the Kentucky Derby since the 1930s, with roots in Persian gulab and 19th-century brandy, rum, and gin versions.
Minute Maid
Minute Maid is a Coca-Cola-owned juice brand created in 1946 as the first U.S. frozen concentrated orange juice, named by a Boston marketing firm, promoted by Bing Crosby, and expanded into 100-plus varieties; its frozen concentrates were discontinued in 2026.
Miracle Whip
Miracle Whip is Kraft Heinz's sweet, tangy mayonnaise-like salad dressing, introduced in 1933; sold as a dressing, not mayonnaise, because it has less than the 65 percent vegetable oil U.S. regulation requires, with 35 calories and 3 g fat per tablespoon.
Mirepoix
Mirepoix: French aromatic base of diced onion, carrot, and celery (2:1:1 by weight), named for the duc de Mirepoix (1699-1757); foundation of stocks, sauces, and braises, usually strained out before serving.
Mirin (味醂)
Mirin (味醂, hon mirin) is a Japanese sweet rice seasoning wine made from glutinous rice, rice koji, and shochu, matured 40–60 days to about 14% alcohol; distinct from salted or low-alcohol mirin-style seasonings.
Miso soup (味噌汁)
Miso soup (味噌汁, misoshiru) is the Japanese soup of dashi stock with dissolved fermented miso paste, tofu, wakame, and seasonal garnishes; the "one soup" of ichiju-sansai, added off the heat, dating to the Kamakura period.
Mister Donut
Mister Donut (ミスタードーナツ), US doughnut chain founded 1956 by Harry Winokur, brother-in-law of Dunkin' founder William Rosenberg; operated in Japan by Duskin since 1971, where it leads the market with Pon de Ring.
Mochi (餅)
Mochi (餅, mochi) is the Japanese rice cake made by steaming and pounding glutinous rice (mochigome), also called niangao-like sticky rice cake. Known for Yayoi-era origins, New Year kagami-mochi and zoni customs, east-west shape differences, and elderly choking risk.
Mochi ice cream
Mochi ice cream, also called My/Mochi or daifuku-style ice cream, is a bite-sized dessert of ice cream wrapped in chewy glutinous rice dough, invented by Frances Hashimoto at Mikawaya in Los Angeles and first sold in 1993.
Mock turtle soup
Mock turtle soup is an English imitation of green turtle soup, traditionally made from a calf's head. First printed in Hannah Glasse's 1758 Art of Cookery, it became a Victorian staple, inspired Carroll's Mock Turtle, and survives in Cincinnati.
Modified gum acacia
Modified gum acacia (OSA modified gum arabic, INS 423) is an octenyl succinate ester of acacia gum used as a food emulsifier; FDA GRN 247 (2008) had no questions, JECFA set ADI not specified in 2016.
Modified starch
Modified starch (变性淀粉): starch whose properties are altered by physical, chemical, enzymatic, or genetic treatment to fix retrogradation, syneresis, and poor heat or shear stability; used in food, paper, textiles, and medicine; EU E 1404–E 1452.
Mofongo
Mofongo is a Puerto Rican dish of fried green plantains mashed with garlic and chicharrón in a wooden mortar, often stuffed as a main course.
Mogu Mogu
Mogu Mogu is a Thai fruit juice drink with chewy nata de coco jelly cubes, launched in 2001 by Sappe and sold in over 100 countries.
Mohan Singh Oberoi
Mohan Singh Oberoi (Rai Bahadur M.S. Oberoi, 1898–2002), Indian hotelier, founder of The Oberoi Group and EIH Ltd; rose from Rs 50/month Cecil clerk to India's first five-star hotelier.
Mojito
Mojito: Cuban highball cocktail of white rum, lime juice, sugar, mint, and soda water; IBA official recipe 45 ml rum, 20 ml lime; first printed as Mojo de Ron (1929), name in Sloppy Joe's 1931-32 manual; linked to El Draque folklore and Hemingway's La Bodeguita del Medio.
Mojo (soft drink)
Mojo is a Bangladeshi cola-flavored carbonated soft drink by Akij Food and Beverage, launched 14 April 2006, named after Bangla "Moja" (fun), a leading domestic cola exported since 2007 and sold in the UK via MSDUK since 2024.
Moka pot
Moka pot: Italian stovetop coffee maker, also caffettiera or Moka Express. Steam pressure pushes water through coffee grounds. Invented 1933 by Alfonso Bialetti with Luigi de Ponti; strong concentrated coffee, weaker than espresso.
Molcajete
Molcajete (Nahuatl molcaxitl): traditional Mexican three-legged volcanic-stone mortar used with a tejolote pestle to grind salsas and guacamole; must be cured with rice before use; cement replicas are unsafe.
Mole (sauce)
Mole (sauce), from Nahuatl molli/mulli meaning sauce, is a family of thick Mexican sauces of chiles, seeds, nuts, spices and sometimes chocolate; about fifty types exist, with mole poblano of Puebla and Oaxaca's seven moles the best known.
Molecular gastronomy
Molecular gastronomy, also called molecular and physical gastronomy, is a food science discipline founded in 1988 by Nicholas Kurti and Hervé This studying the chemistry and physics of culinary transformations, distinct from molecular cooking and molecular cuisine.
Molly Yeh
Molly Yeh, also known as my name is yeh, is an American food blogger, cookbook author, and Food Network's Girl Meets Farm host. Known for Jewish-Chinese-Midwestern recipes, Molly on the Range, Juilliard percussion training, and farm life in East Grand Forks.