What is the difference between Raw foods and Ingredients?
For examples, meats, vegetables, salt or sugar, sauce and so on.
How can I sort those things?
Before I cook, I should wash up X first.
I should wash up X, before I start cooking.
By this, I mean I need to wash some raw foods that are with some dirt like soil, dust or agricultural pesticides or chemicals, but I don't need to wash ingredients like sugar and salt.
Best Answer
In the context of food, "raw" means "uncooked". Ingredients are the things that are combined to make some kind of food, like a cake, a sauce, a chicken dish, meatballs, or a souffle, whether they're something you make or something packaged that you buy at the store.
There is no "difference" between raw foods and ingredients because they're two separate concepts. Some ingredients may be raw, some may be cooked. Chocolate chips are an ingredient in chocolate chip cookies, and they aren't raw: the chips themselves were melted before sugar and other ingredients were added to them. The flour is raw. The eggs are raw unless they were pasteurized.