mix-in

plural mix-ins

1. alternativecomputingAlternative form of mixin.
2. A dessert of ice cream with another ingredient mixed in.
3. 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 (Special Mass Media Professions), chapter 17 (The Structure of the Advertising Industry), pages 404–405

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   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

   These cookies always turn out great in my mother’s kitchen because she infamously has a hodgepodge of mix-ins, none in great enough quantity to make an actual single-flavored cookie on its own.

   2019 June 19, Christina Tosi, “Milk Bar’s famous Compost Cookies recipe from Christina Tosi”, in Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles, Calif.: Los Angeles Times Communications, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 20 Jun 2019