Instant product
As instant products , semi-finished foods are called, which are usually made of powder, granules or dried ingredients and are mixed with a hot or cold liquid. The cooking in the preparation is not necessary. The products are instantly soluble and do not tend to clump.
Word origin
The adjective instant [ ɪnstənt ], which means "immediately" in the German "immediately" or, is a loan word from the English language . It originally comes from the Latin instans (for "forthcoming") and can also be found in German as a physical term instantaneous with the meaning "related to the (measuring) moment".
Products
The term instant product was initially used rather rarely and only in connection with powder. In the wake of the industrial revolution , which also developed rapidly in the food industry , special process technologies such as freeze or drum drying initially made products such as B. soluble coffee , soluble tea , instant soup , pudding or cocoa produced. The term instant stands for the property that the goods only have to be mixed with a cold, warm or hot liquid, depending on the intended use, and a finished drinkable or edible product is created within a very short time.
In recent times, when the spread of frozen food and microwave ovens means that less time is spent on the preparation of meals, more and more ingenious methods of preparation have now enabled complete meals to be prepared within one to three minutes. The dosage form is no longer limited to powder, but vegetables, for example, pressed into pellets , can also be counted as instant products in the broader sense.
Other terms
The term beverage powder is often used for instant powder, which is used for the production of beverages .
See also
Single receipts
- ↑ a b instant ( Memento of the original from September 15, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (English-German) - Duden , Langenscheidt ; 2015
- ↑ instant - Duden , Bibliographisches Institut ; 2016
- ↑ instantan - Duden , Bibliographisches Institut ; 2016
