"selected ingredients" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to purposefully chosen ingredients used in a recipe or other context. For example, "This recipe calls for only the finest, carefully selected ingredients."
This means that users' ingredient preferences reveal stronger favor or disgust for selected ingredients than we would expect to observe if the recipe selection process would be random.
To me, a more apt comparison would be of processed fast food to a homemade meal of carefully selected ingredients.
Considered by many to be Sacramento's best restaurant, Biba serves classic dishes made with carefully selected ingredients.
The talk was hushed, not the loud, political discussions of other kibbutzim, as we all selected ingredients for our own salads.
Manhattan Ocean Club still wants to be loved, and it is willing to work for that, a fact made clear by the superior quality of the carefully selected ingredients in that platter.
For most Asian families a stir-fry will use just a couple of carefully selected ingredients and will taste distinctive, rather than every dish being meat with some kind of strange vegetable medley.
And I applauded owner West Hooker and Exec Chef Gianfranco Minuz of Santa Monica's excellent Locanda del Lago on their exciting nose-to-tail cooking once a month of a selected ingredient, from lamb to rabbit to sea bass.
Table 3 shows the dosage of the selected ingredient indicated in the NS offered by the websites and the tested dosage from the studies retrieved.
I.B.M. researchers have watched and talked to Mr. Briscione as he works, selecting ingredients and building out dishes.
Patrick Wilt, the owner, buys wines from all over the world, but he respects the locavore movement by selecting ingredients from Broken Arrow Ranch and Diamond H Ranch, farms in nearby Ingram and Bandera, respectively.
Abrams continues, "When we select ingredients we try to question the global economics and systems behind each item".
