Many to many relation with fk in the pivot table - laravel

Question

i have the following structure:
Database
ingredients
id,
name
products
id,
name
ingredient_product
ingredient_id,
product_id,
ingredient_type_id
ingredient_types
id,
name
Models
Product Model
class Product extends Model
{
public function ingredients() {
return $this->belongsToMany(Ingredient::class)
->withPivot('ingredient_type_id');
}
}
Ingredient Model
class Ingredient extends Model
{
public function products() {
return $this->belongsToMany(Product::class)
->withPivot('ingredient_type_id');
}
}
My SearchController
class SearchController extends Controller
{
public function search(InitialSearchRequest $request)
{
$productsResults = Product::where('name', 'LIKE', '%' . $request['initial-search'] . '%')
->with('ingredients', 'brand')
->get();
return view('search.index')
->with(compact('productsResults'))
->with('initial-search', $request['initial-search']);
}
}
And finally my View
<div class="card-group">
#foreach($productsResults as $product)
<div class="col-sm-6 col-md-4 col-lg-4">
<div class="card"><img class="card-img-top" src="..." alt="Imagem do produto" style="width: 100%; height:100px; background-color: #696969;">
<div class="card-body">
<h5 class="card-title">{{ $product->name }}</h5>
<p class="card-text">
Important Ingredients: <br>
#foreach($product->ingredients as $ingredient)
**{{ I need here the ingredient type }}** - {{ $ingredient->name }}
#endforeach
</p>
</div>
</div>
</div>
#endforeach
</div>
So i need to show in the view my products, with the ingredients and the type of each ingredient.
This approach isn´t working......
I need help to finish this task.
Thank you for any help.

Answer 1

You can use a pivot model:
class IngredientProductPivot extends \Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Relations\Pivot
{
public function ingredientType() {
return $this->belongsTo(IngredientType::class);
}
}
class Product extends Model
{
public function ingredients() {
return $this->belongsToMany(Ingredient::class)
->withPivot('ingredient_type_id')
->using(IngredientProductPivot::class);
}
}
Then access it like this:
{{ $ingredient->pivot->ingredientType->name }}
As far as I know, there is no way to eager load the type relation.