Definition of "ingredient"

ingredient

/ɪnˈɡɹiːdi.ənt/

noun
plural ingredients
1. One of the substances present in a mixture, especially food.
  Quotations
  By way of analysis we may proceed from compounds to ingredients.
  1704, I[saac] N[ewton], “(please specify |book=1 to 3)”, in Opticks: Or, A Treatise of the Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours of Light. […], London: […] Sam[uel] Smith, and Benj[amin] Walford, printers to the Royal Society, […]
  Water is the chief ingredient in all the animal fluids and solids.
  1731, John Arbuthnot, An Essay Concerning the Nature of Aliments, and the Choice of Them, According to the Different Constitutions of Human Bodies. […], 1st Irish edition, Dublin: […] S. Powell, for George Risk, […], George Ewing, […], and William Smith, […]