mix-in

Noun

mix-in (plural mix-ins)

1. A dessert of ice cream with another ingredient mixed in.
2. An ingredient intended to be mixed into a food.
   • Cans of jalapeno-flavored tuna appeared on store shelves along with low-fat tuna mix-ins to make mayonnaiseless tuna salad.1996, Joseph R. Dominick, “The Advertising Campaign”, in The Dynamics of Mass Communication (McGraw-Hill Series in Mass Communication), 5th edition, New York, N.Y.: McGraw-Hill, →ISBN, part IV...
   • Pour in your choice of chocolate or vanilla, organic bases from Blue Marble, add mix-ins from an array of 25, and in less than 10 minutes your soft serve is ready.2013 July 11, Florence Fabricant, “D.I.Y. Soft Serve With Mix-Ins”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 11 Jul 2016