Question

Is there any food item ingredients who source is neither plant nor animal

Answer 1

Yes, there is the food material - mushroom whose source is neither plant nor animal. Since, it includes under the kingdom of Fungi.

Answer 2

Majority of our food materials are from either different plants or from different animals.

But still there are many edible food materials or ingredients that are not collected from any plant or animal.

Examples:

1)We use different types of chemicals and minerals as the essential ingredients for our cooking.

Such as,baking soda,baking powder, vinegar,salt etc.

These food ingredients are not collected from any plant or animal.

2)We also eat some species of fungi which don't belong to plant kingdom.

Mushrooms are the most popular fungi that we eat in our daily meals.