What are pickles made of?
Pickles take cucumber, table salt, water, mustard seed, vinegar and sugar directly. Trace them back and you pass 11 made things on the way to 13 raw materials.
How pickles are made See it on the map
What goes straight in
From the ground: 13 raw materials
- Cucumber goes straight in
- Water goes straight in
- Mustard seed goes straight in
- Rock salt through table salt
- Seawater through table salt
- Wine grapes through vinegar
- Sugarcane through sugar
- Sugar beet through sugar
- Corn through vinegar, ethanol
- Barley through vinegar, malted barley
- Limestone through sugar, quicklime
- Natural gas through vinegar, ethanol, ethylene
- Crude oil through vinegar, ethanol, ethylene, naphtha
Made along the way: 8 things
Chemicals and fuels 5
Food 3
What it is packed in
On the line, but left out of everything above, because it holds the finished thing rather than goes into it.