English > foodstuff: 2 senses > noun 2, food| Meaning | A substance that can be used or prepared for use as food. |
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| Synonym | food product |
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| Narrower | breadstuff | flour or meal or grain used in baking bread |
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| canned food, canned foods, canned goods, tinned goods | Food preserved by canning |
| carob, carob powder, Saint-John's-bread | powder from the ground seeds and pods of the carob tree |
| cocoa | powder of ground roasted cacao beans with most of the fat removed |
| coloring, colouring, food coloring, food colouring, food color, food colour | A digestible substance used to give color to food |
| concentrate | A concentrated form of a foodstuff |
| concoction, mixture, intermixture | Any foodstuff made by combining different ingredients |
| curd | A coagulated liquid / liquid resembling milk curd |
| dairy product | milk and butter and cheese |
| dehydrated food, dehydrated foods | Food preserved by dehydration |
| egg, eggs | oval reproductive body of a fowl (especially a hen) used as food |
| flour | fine powdery foodstuff obtained by grinding and sifting the meal of a cereal grain |
| frozen food, frozen foods | Food preserved by freezing |
| grain, food grain, cereal | foodstuff prepared from the starchy grains of cereal grasses |
| ingredient, fixings | Food that is a component of a mixture / mixture in cooking |
| juice | The liquid part that can be extracted from plant or animal tissue by squeezing or cooking |
| meal | coarsely ground foodstuff |
| milk | Any of several nutritive milklike liquids / liquids |
| perishable, spoilable | Food that will decay rapidly if not refrigerated |
| roughage, fiber | coarse, indigestible plant food low in nutrients |
| starches | Foodstuff rich in natural starch (especially potatoes, rice, bread) |
| tapioca | granular preparation of cassava starch used to thicken especially puddings |
| Broader | food, nutrient | Any substance that can be metabolized by an animal to give energy and build tissue |
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| Spanish | comida, nutriente, producto alimenticio |
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| Catalan | menjar, producte alimentari |
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