Spherification is a cooking technique invented by Ferran Adria. It’s the culinary process of taking liquid, which resembles the shape of its container, and reshaping it into a sphere.

Gelling agents are materials used to thicken and stabilize liquid solutions, emulsions, and suspensions.

An emulsifier (also known as an emulgent) is a substance which stabilizes an emulsion by increasing their kinetic stability.

Thickening agents, or thickeners, are substances which, when added to an aqueous mixture, increase its viscosity without substantially modifying its other properties, such as taste.