Ingreppets

Ingreppets are modular data units used to describe ingredients within digital recipes and culinary information systems. They function as building blocks in recipe generation, inventory tracking, and parameterized cooking routines, allowing both humans and machines to interpret ingredient information consistently.

The term ingreppet is a blend of ingredient and snippet or packet, with ingreppets as the plural form. The singular form is ingreppet. The concept emerged in online discussions of culinary technology in the late 2010s and has since been used in various recipe engines and data models.

A typical ingreppet includes a core set of fields and optional enhancements. Core fields commonly include name, quantity, and unit. Optional fields can specify state (such as whole, chopped, grated), preparation (minced, sliced), and notes. Additional attributes may cover tags (for allergens, dietary labels, or sourcing), expiry information, supplier or batch data, and location (pantry, fridge, freezer). Inreppets can be flagged as required or optional within a given recipe template and are designed to be locale-aware through unit and language localization features.

In practice, ingreppets enable scalable and interoperable recipe data. They support automated unit conversion, quantity scaling, and template-driven generation of ingredient lists for both human readers and software systems. By standardizing ingredient representation, ingreppets facilitate inventory management, procurement, and integration with kitchen automation or decision-support tools.

See also: ingredients, recipe data model, culinary ontology, inventory management systems.