Vinegar

Also called acetic acid

Vinegar is an ingredient used in dressings and marinades. Cooks also use it in baking and infusions, and to pickle, preserve, and season foods. It pairs with table salt.

Category: Condiments & seasonings
Cooked most in: Asia, The Americas, Europe
Top country: Indonesia
Dishes: 13 in the catalogue
Energy: 21 kcal per 100 g

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

In the kitchen

How to use vinegar

Typical ways to cook or use it

Bake
Dressing
Infuse
Marinade
Pickle
Preserve
Season

Goes well with

table salt

Nutrition

What 100 g of vinegar holds

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

Protein 0%Fat 0%Carbohydrate 100%of the macronutrients by weight

Nutrition per 100 g of vinegar
Energy	21 kcal · 90 kJ
Protein	0 g
Fat	0 g
of which saturated	0 g
Carbohydrate	0.93 g
of which sugars	0.4 g
Fibre	0 g
Sodium	5 mg
Cholesterol	0 mg

Nutrition per 100 g of vinegar: minerals and vitamins
Potassium	73 mg
Calcium	7 mg
Iron	0.2 mg
Magnesium	5 mg
Zinc	0.04 mg

Source: USDA FoodData Central (food 173469), public domain. Minerals and vitamins are listed only where USDA measured a non-zero amount.

Around the world

Where vinegar is cooked

13 dishes in the catalogue use vinegar. Here is where they come from.

Dishes by continent

Countries whose dishes use it most

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

Origins

About 3,000 BCE
The earliest documented production and use dates to about 3000 BCE among the Babylonians.
1823 · Germany
Karl Sebastian Schüzenbach invented a large-scale industrial production process in Baden.

On the table

Dishes made with vinegar

13 dishes in the catalogue use it.

Hallaca
Venezuela
Selat Solo
Indonesia
Vermicelle Poulet
Senegal
Dagga
Naranjas picadas
Spain
Bayrisch Kraut
Germany
Gilda
Lomo saltado
Peru
Xian doujiang
Humba
Philippines
Maranggi satay
Indonesia
Pempek
Indonesia
Lomo en adobo

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

Family

Related forms

Kinds: balsamic vinegar

Around the world

What vinegar is called

Names in 120 languages, from Wikidata.

Spanish
vinagre · vinagre de vino
French
vinaigre · mère de vinaigre
Italian
aceto · aceti
Portuguese
vinagre
German
Essig · Orleansverfahren · Acetum · Orleans-Verfahren
Dutch
azijn · alcoholazijn · keukenazijn · natuurazijn
Greek
ξίδι · ξύδι
Turkish
sirke
Russian
уксус · оцет
Polish
ocet
Arabic
خل · خلّ · الخل
Persian
سرکه

Show all 120 languages

Afrikaans
asyn
Albanian
uthulla
Aragonese
vinagre · binagre
Aramaic
ܚܠܐ
Armenian
քացախ
Aromanian
puscâ
Arpitan
vinégro
Asturian
vinagre
Azerbaijani
sirkə
Bangla
ভিনেগার
Basque
ozpin · ozpina
Belarusian
воцат
Belarusian (Taraskievica orthography)
воцат
Betawi
Cuka (bumbu masak)
Bikol
suka
Breton
gwinegr
Bulgarian
оцет
Burmese
ပုန်းရည် · ရှရကာရည်
Cantonese
醋
Catalan
vinagre
cdo
chó
Cebuano
sukà · binagre · langgaw · kusisang
Chinese
醋 · 食醋 · 米醋
Cornish
aysel
Croatian
ocat · kvasina
Czech
ocet
Danish
eddike
Egyptian Arabic
خل
eml
asé
Esperanto
vinagro · aceto
Estonian
äädikas
Filipino
suka · acetum
Finnish
etikka · viinietikka
Galician
vinagre
Guarani
Kaguyhái
Hausa
Ruwan Kal
Hebrew
חומץ
Hindi
सिरका · चुक्र
Hungarian
ecet
hyw
քացախ
Icelandic
edik
Ido
vinagro
Inari Sami
eetik
Indonesian
vinegar
Ingush
къанз
Irish
fínéagar
Japanese
酢 · ヴィネガー · 醸造酢 · お酢
Javanese
cuka
Kabyle
amaɣus
Kannada
ವಿನಿಗರ್
Kashmiri
سٔرکہٕ
Kazakh
сірке суы
kge
Cuko Balando
Kinyarwanda
vinegre
Korean
식초
Latin
acetum
Latvian
etiķis
Limburgish
aek
Literary Chinese
醋
Lithuanian
actas
Lombard
asee
Low Saxon
edik · azien
Luxembourgish
Esseg
Macedonian
оцет
Malagasy
vinaingitra
Malay
cuka
Malayalam
വിനാഗിരി
Min Nan Chinese
chhò͘
Mongolian
уксус
Neapolitan
acito
Nepali
भिनेगर
Northern Sami
edet · ettet
Norwegian Bokmål
eddik · vineddik · gjæringseddik
Norwegian Nynorsk
eddik
Occitan
vinagre
Old English
vinegar
Punjabi
ਸਿਰਕਾ
Quechua
mama aqha
Romanian
oțet
Romany
chote
Samogitian
uksosos
Scots
veenegar
Serbian
сирће · оцат · сирћетна киселина
Serbian (Cyrillic)
сирће · оцат · сирћетна киселина
Serbian (Latin)
ocat · sirće
Sicilian
acitu
Simplified Chinese
醋
Sinhala
විනාකිරි
Slovak
ocot
Slovenian
kis
Somali
khal
Sundanese
cuka
Swedish
vinäger · vinättika
Tamil
புளிங்காடி · வினாகிரி · வினிகர்
Tatar
серкә
Thai
น้ำส้มสายชู
Ukrainian
оцет
Urdu
سرکہ
Uyghur
ئاچچىقسۇ
Uzbek
sirka · uksus
Venetian
azeo · azedo · azéo
Veps
uksus
Vietnamese
giấm · dấm thanh · dấm trắng · dấm
Waray
suoy
Welsh
finegr
West Flemish
azyn · azyl
Western Frisian
jittik
Western Panjabi
سرکہ
Wu Chinese
醋
Yakut
уксуус
Yiddish
עסיג · עסיק

Sources and credits

Data

GlobeCooks editorial: descriptions, kitchen notes and classification, written by GlobeCooks from checked sources
USDA FoodData Central (Foundation, SR Legacy): nutrition values (Public domain (US government work, CC0))
Wikidata: names, classification and dishes (CC0 1.0)
Wikimedia Commons: photos
Wikipedia (English) (CC BY-SA 4.0)

Wikidata item: Q41354

Photos