doughnut

Summary

doughnut ranks in the top 0.7% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (2,162 views/month, #548 of 77,819).^[1]

Key Facts

• doughnut is made of wheat flour^[2].
• doughnut is made of potato^[3].
• doughnut is made of egg as food^[4].
• doughnut is made of baking powder^[5].
• doughnut is made of sugar^[6].
• doughnut is made of milk^[7].
• doughnut is made of flavor enhancer^[8].
• doughnut is a type of dessert^[9].
• doughnut is a type of viennoiserie^[10].
• doughnut is a type of dish^[11].
• doughnut is a type of fritter^[12].
• doughnut is a type of bánh^[13].
• doughnut is a type of fried dough^[14].
• doughnut is a type of snack^[15].
• doughnut's Commons category is recorded as Doughnuts^[16].
• doughnut's said to be the same as is recorded as Krapfen^[17].
• doughnut's Unicode character is recorded as 🍩^[18].
• 1700 marks the founding of doughnut^[19].
• doughnut's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Doughnuts^[20].
• doughnut's shape is recorded as torus^[21].
• doughnut's native label is recorded as {'lang': 'en', 'text': 'Doughnut'}^[22].
• doughnut's different from is recorded as doughnut^[23].
• doughnut's different from is recorded as bagel^[24].
• doughnut's fabrication method is recorded as deep frying^[25].
• doughnut's name is recorded as {'lang': 'fr-ca', 'text': 'beigne'}^[26].

Body

Definition and Type

Recorded subclass of include dessert^[9], viennoiserie^[10], dish^[11], fritter^[12], bánh^[13], and fried dough^[14].

Origins

1700 marks the founding of doughnut^[19].

Influence

Things named for doughnut include Cronut^[27]; doughnut^[28], an economic model^[29]; and Android Donut^[30], an operating system^[31], founded in 2009^[32].

Why It Matters

doughnut ranks in the top 0.7% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (2,162 views/month, #548 of 77,819).^[1] doughnut has Wikipedia articles in 29 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.^[33] doughnut is known by 52 alternative names across languages and contexts.^[34]

Entities named for doughnut include Cronut^[27]; doughnut^[28], an economic model^[29]; and Android Donut^[30], an operating system^[31], founded in 2009^[32].