Knowledge Graph
Ingredient Entities
Browse 13 Ingredient entities — one of 10 primary types in the complete knowledge graph.
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Browse 13 Ingredient entities — one of 10 primary types in the complete knowledge graph.
Bamboo shoots (竹笋, zhúsǔn) are the edible young culms of bamboo species, harvested when they first emerge from the groun…
Black tea (红茶, hóngchá, 'red tea') is a fully oxidized tea made from leaves of Camellia sinensis. Its characteristic dar…
Green tea (绿茶, lǜchá) is an unoxidized tea made from the leaves of Camellia sinensis. The leaves are harvested, quickly …
Loquat (枇杷, pípá) is a sweet-tart fruit native to southeastern China, produced by the evergreen tree Eriobotrya japonica…
Lotus root (莲藕, lián'ǒu) is the edible rhizome of the lotus plant (Nelumbo nucifera), a perennial aquatic plant revered …
Mushrooms (蘑菇, mógu) are the fruiting bodies of various fungi, encompassing a vast category of edible species central to…
Persimmon (柿子) is the sweet, orange fruit of trees in the genus Diospyros, native to China and widely cultivated across …
Rice (米/稻) is the seed of Oryza sativa, a cereal grain that is the staple food for more than half the global population,…
Salt (盐) is a mineral composed primarily of sodium chloride (NaCl), the most fundamental seasoning in East Asian cuisine…
Sichuan pepper (花椒) is a spice made from the husks of prickly ash berries (Zanthoxylum genus), known for its unique numb…
Soy sauce (酱油) is a dark, salty fermented condiment made from four ingredients — soybeans, roasted wheat, salt, and wate…
Tea (茶) is an aromatic beverage made from the leaves of Camellia sinensis, originating in China over 4,000 years ago and…
Tofu (豆腐) is a food prepared by coagulating soy milk and pressing the resulting curds into soft blocks, a staple source …
Ingredients are the point where a season becomes something you can hold. An ingredient entity is a substance in its culinary form — the tea leaf, the bamboo shoot, the fermented bean — and its entry records the window in which it is at its best, the transformations it tolerates, and the preparations it belongs to. Because freshness is a seasonal property rather than a quality label, the Atlas treats each ingredient as a short-lived event with a place in the year, not as a permanent item on a shelf.
Ingredient pages are the graph's busiest junctions. They connect to the plants they come from, the places that produce them, the practices that preserve them, and the festivals that feature them. That density is deliberate: it is where the Food domain touches Earth, Practice, and Story at once. Following two or three links from an ingredient page is usually enough to see the Atlas's whole structure at work, and to see why the same substance can belong to a season, a technique, and a holiday simultaneously.
Browse all Ingredient entities in the Atlas — each represents a node in the knowledge graph. Follow any card to see its relationships, seasonal timing, and subsite connections.