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Mustard

Mustard is a condiment sauce made with mustard seeds and sometimes turmeric. Cooks use it in dressings and marinades or to season meat, vegetables, and cheese.

Cooked most in
Europe
Top country
Czechia
Mustard, prepared

Photo: Rainer Zenz · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons

In the kitchen

How to use mustard

Typical ways to cook or use it

  • Dressing
  • Marinade
  • Season

Made from

Cooking with it

Mustard can help keep Hollandaise sauce from curdling.

Goes well with

Shopping

Choosing and storing mustard

Sold as
Jarred

Nutrition

What 100 g of mustard holds

Per 100 g. Averages from USDA; real values vary by variety, season and growing conditions.

Protein 33%Fat 26%Carbohydrate 41%of the macronutrients by weight

Nutrition per 100 g of mustard
Energy61 kcal · 254 kJ
Protein4.3 g
Fat3.4 g
of which saturated0.25 g
Carbohydrate5.3 g
of which sugars1.4 g
Fibre4.3 g
Sodium1,100 mg
Cholesterol0 mg
Nutrition per 100 g of mustard: minerals and vitamins
Potassium150 mg
Calcium63 mg
Iron1.6 mg
Magnesium48 mg
Zinc0.64 mg
Vitamin C0.4 mg
Vitamin A (RAE)4 µg
Folate7 µg

Source: USDA FoodData Central (foods 172234, 326698), public domain. Minerals and vitamins are listed only where USDA measured a non-zero amount.

Around the world

Where mustard is cooked

2 dishes in the catalogue use mustard. Here is where they come from.

Dishes by continent

Countries whose dishes use it most

Counts are catalogued dishes from each country that list mustard among their ingredients.

Origins

  1. The 900s · France

    Monks in Paris began making mustard.

  2. 1390 · United Kingdom

    An English cookery book records mustard being used as a condiment.

  3. 1904 · United States

    A bright-yellow mustard was introduced at the St. Louis World's Fair.

On the table

Dishes made with mustard

2 dishes in the catalogue use it.

  • Franciasaláta

    Hungary, Russia

  • Czech-style hot dog

    Czechia

Dish lists come from Wikidata; a dish counts when its recorded ingredients include mustard.

Around the world

What mustard is called

Names in 89 languages, from Wikidata.

  • Spanish

    mostaza · Jenabe

  • French

    moutarde

  • Italian

    senape

  • Portuguese

    mostarda

  • German

    Senf · Mostrich · Senfkörner

  • Dutch

    mosterd · Dijonmosterd

  • Greek

    μουστάρδα

  • Turkish

    hardal · Hint Hardalı

  • Russian

    горчица

  • Polish

    musztarda

  • Arabic

    صلصة الخردل

  • Persian

    خردل

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  • Afrikaans

    mosterd

  • Albanian

    mustardë kuzhine

  • Aragonese

    senabe

  • Armenian

    մանանեխ

  • Asturian

    mostaza

  • Bangla

    সরিষার আচার

  • Basque

    mostaza · ziape

  • Bavarian

    Semf · Sembf · Senf

  • Belarusian

    гарчыца

  • Belarusian (Taraskievica orthography)

    гарчыца

  • Betawi

    Mustardi

  • Bosnian

    senf

  • Breton

    sezo

  • Bulgarian

    горчица

  • Cantonese

    芥辣

  • Catalan

    mostassa

  • Chinese

    芥菜醬 · 芥末

  • Corsican

    mustarda

  • Croatian

    senf

  • Czech

    hořčice

  • Danish

    sennep

  • Egyptian Arabic

    مسترده

  • Esperanto

    mustardo

  • Estonian

    sinep

  • Faroese

    sinoppur

  • Finnish

    sinappi

  • Galician

    mostaza

  • Georgian

    მდოგვი

  • Haitian Creole

    moutad

  • Hebrew

    חרדל

  • Hindi

    सरसों ( मसाला )

  • Hungarian

    mustár · mustármag

  • Icelandic

    sinnep

  • Ido

    mustardo

  • Inari Sami

    siinap

  • Indonesian

    moster · mustar · mustard

  • Interlingua

    mustarda · mustarda (condimento)

  • Japanese

    マスタード · 洋がらし · ブラックマスタード · ホワイトマスタード

  • Javanese

    mustar

  • Korean

    머스터드 · 겨자 소스 · 머스터드 소스

  • Kurdish

    gormiz

  • Kurdish (Arabic)

    گۆرمز

  • Kurdish (Latin)

    gormiz

  • Latin

    sinapi

  • Latvian

    sinepes

  • Lithuanian

    garstyčios

  • Low German

    Semp

  • Luxembourgish

    moschter

  • Macedonian

    сенф

  • Malagasy

    voantsinapy

  • Malay

    mustard

  • Malayalam

    കടുക്

  • Māori

    panikakā · mātete

  • Northern Frisian

    Moster

  • Northern Sami

    sennet · senet

  • Norwegian Bokmål

    sennep · sennepssaus

  • Norwegian Nynorsk

    sennep

  • nrm

    moutarde · moutarde (affètement)

  • Odia

    ଶୋରିଷ ଆଚାର

  • Punjabi

    ਸਰੋਂ

  • Quechua

    mustasa · mostaza

  • Romanian

    muștar

  • Serbian

    сенф

  • Serbian (Cyrillic)

    сенф

  • Serbian (Latin)

    senf · gorčica

  • Serbian (Latin)

    senf

  • Silesian

    zymft

  • Simplified Chinese

    芥末酱

  • Simplified Chinese (China)

    芥末酱

  • Simplified Chinese (Singapore)

    芥末酱

  • Skolt Sami

    sinapp

  • Slovak

    horčica

  • Slovenian

    gorčica

  • Swedish

    senap · bordssenap · senapsgul

  • syl

    ꠢꠂꠞꠅ

  • Tamil

    கடுகு

  • Tatar

    горчица · ямәк мае · гәрчитсә

  • Traditional Chinese

    芥末醬

  • Traditional Chinese (Hong Kong SAR China)

    芥末醬

  • Traditional Chinese (Taiwan)

    芥末醬

  • Ukrainian

    гірчиця · муштарда

  • Upper Sorbian

    žonop

  • Vietnamese

    mù tạc · mù tạt

  • Walloon

    moståde

  • Waray

    mustasa

  • Western Frisian

    moster

  • Wu Chinese

    芥末酱

  • Zulu

    umasitadi

Sources and credits

Data

Wikidata item: Q131748

Photos

Photo: Rainer Zenz · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons