But truth be told, labor is not a big ingredient in the manufacturing uptick in the United States, textiles or otherwise.
The unruly digital data of the Web is a big ingredient in what is now being called "Big Data".
In Whitehall, both Arvato and the other big recent private player Sopra Steria, which is French, do not seem to have realised that making "offshoring" a big ingredient in their business plans was bound to cause ructions.
And the dessert menu, a big ingredient in Mesa Grill's success under the flamboyant, very talented Wayne Brachman, is in a transitional phase, with the recent departure of Mr. Brachman and the arrival of the more decorous Vicki Wells, formerly on the faculty at the French Culinary Institute.
"I've worked with him before and knew what he could bring to the party and that was a big ingredient of bringing him in.
Cold drip coffee (though they were out when I swung by on a Tuesday morning), quinoa salads and one of the biggest ingredients of 2014, pulled pork, are on the menu.
Their next biggest ingredient is wood, for the sticks.
Milk is their biggest ingredient; on an average day they go thru the output of 25,000 cows.
But, like many other brands, Alpro's almond content is just 2% – the biggest ingredient is water, followed by sugar.
'There's an unpleasant fattiness lining my mouth and it's not going away.' The panel suspected the culprit might have been the second biggest ingredient, which was vegetable suet (this one was largely made of palm oil).
