Definition of food Food
/fuˈd/ - [fud] - food
We found 15 definitions of food from 8 different sources.
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What does food mean?
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| food - any solid substance (as opposed to liquid) that is used as a source of nourishment; "food and drink" | ||
| solid food | ||
| solid a three-dimensional shape | ||
| nutrient, food any substance (such as a chemical element or inorganic compound) that can be taken in by a green plant and used in organic synthesis | ||
| leftovers food remaining from a previous meal; "he had leftovers for dinner last night" | ||
| fresh food, fresh foods food that is not preserved by canning or dehydration or freezing or smoking | ||
| convenience food any packaged dish or food that can be prepared quickly and easily as by thawing or heating | ||
| chocolate a medium brown to dark-brown color | ||
| baked goods foods (like breads and cakes and pastries) that are cooked in an oven | ||
| loaf a quantity of food (other than bread) formed in a particular shape; "meat loaf"; "sugar loaf"; "a loaf of cheese" | ||
| meat the flesh of animals (including fishes and birds and snails) used as food | ||
| alimentary paste, pasta shaped and dried dough made from flour and water and sometimes egg | ||
| health food any natural or prepared food popularly believed to promote good health | ||
| junk food food that tastes good but is high in calories having little nutritional value | ||
| breakfast food any food (especially cereal) usually served for breakfast | ||
| garden truck, green goods, green groceries, produce fresh fruits and vegetable grown for the market | ||
| coconut meat, coconut large hard-shelled oval nut with a fibrous husk containing thick white meat surrounding a central cavity filled (when fresh) with fluid or milk | ||
| dika bread somewhat astringent paste prepared by grinding and heating seeds of the African wild mango; a staple food of some African peoples | ||
| fish any of various mostly cold-blooded aquatic vertebrates usually having scales and breathing through gills; "the shark is a large fish"; "in the living room there was a tank of colorful fish" | ||
| seafood edible fish (broadly including freshwater fish) or shellfish or roe etc | ||
| butter an edible emulsion of fat globules made by churning milk or cream; for cooking and table use | ||
| yoghourt, yoghurt, yogurt a custard-like food made from curdled milk | ||
| cheese a solid food prepared from the pressed curd of milk | ||
| food - any substance that can be metabolized by an animal to give energy and build tissue | ||
| nutrient | ||
| substance the real physical matter of which a person or thing consists; "DNA is the substance of our genes" | ||
| vitellus, yolk nutritive material of an ovum stored for the nutrition of an embryo (especially the yellow mass of a bird or reptile egg) | ||
| solid food, food any substance that can be metabolized by an animal to give energy and build tissue | ||
| comfort food food that is simply prepared and gives a sense of wellbeing; typically food with a high sugar or carbohydrate content that is associated with childhood or with home cooking | ||
| comestible, eatable, edible, victual, pabulum, victuals any substance that can be used as food | ||
| fare the food and drink that are regularly served or consumed | ||
| food product, foodstuff a substance that can be used or prepared for use as food | ||
| aliment, nutriment, alimentation, nourishment, nutrition, sustenance, victuals a source of materials to nourish the body | ||
| commissariat, provisions, viands, provender, victuals a stock or supply of foods | ||
| feed, provender food for domestic livestock | ||
| miraculous food, manna, manna from heaven (Old Testament) food that God gave the Israelites during the Exodus | ||
| beverage, drinkable, potable, drink any liquid suitable for drinking; "may I take your beverage order?" | ||
| water a liquid necessary for the life of most animals and plants; "he asked for a drink of water" | ||
| soul food food traditionally eaten by African-Americans in the South | ||
| micronutrient a substance needed only in small amounts for normal body function (e.g., vitamins or minerals) | ||
| chyme a semiliquid mass of partially digested food that passes from the stomach through the pyloric sphincter into the duodenum | ||
| food - anything that provides mental stimulus for thinking | ||
| food for thought, intellectual nourishment | ||
| cognitive content, mental object, content the sum or range of what has been perceived, discovered, or learned | ||
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Wiktionary 
Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged Dictionary 📘
- food (n.)
What is fed upon; that which goes to support life by being received within, and assimilated by, the organism of an animal or a plant; nutriment; aliment; especially, what is eaten by animals for nourishment. - food (n.)
Anything that instructs the intellect, excites the feelings, or molds habits of character; that which nourishes. - food (v. t.)
To supply with food.
OmegaWiki DictionaryOmegaWiki Dictionary Ω
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food
A substance that can be ingested and utilized by the organism as a source of nutrition and energy.
Chambers DictionaryChamber's 20th Century Dictionary 📕
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food
fōōd, n. what one feeds on: that which, being digested, nourishes the body: whatever sustains or promotes growth.—adjs. Food′ful, able to supply food abundantly; Food′less, without food. [A.S. fóda; Goth. fódeins, Sw. föda.] -
food
fōōd, n. (Spens.). Same as Feud
Military DictionaryMilitary Dictionary and Gazetteer 💥
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food
Food has two functions, building up the body, and supplying it with force. Substances used as food may be divided into elements which are oxidizable and those conducive to chemical changes. Milk contains all the necessary elements in the best form. The nourishing elements of foods are usually classed under the heads of albuminates, fats, carbo-hydrates, and salts. In regard to the part played by the condiments used in flavoring and seasoning, and such things as tea, coffee, chocolate, alcohol, etc., little is positively known beyond the fact that some of them are useful in exciting the salivary and alimentary secretions. The amount of food necessary to health and vigor varies with the kind and amount of occupation, the character of the climate, and specifically with the individual. Playfair and Parkes give the following as the average daily allowance of anhydrous food for an adult, in avoirdupois ounces:In quietude. Albuminates 2.5 Fats 1. Carbo-hydrates 12. Salts .5 ---- Total 16.Hard labor or campaigning. Albuminates 6. to 7. Fats 3.5 to 4.5 Carbo-hydrates 16. to 18. Salts 1.2 to 1.5 ------------ Total 26.7 to 31.0European standard, for moderate work. Albuminates 4.587 Fats 2.964 Carbo-hydrates 14.257 Salts 1.058 ------ Total 22.866From 70 to 90 ounces of water in addition to this are usually consumed per day.The ration of the U. S. army resolved into anhydrous elements gives the following:Soft bread, with ²⁄₃ fresh beef, ¹⁄₃ salt pork and beans. Albuminates 3.93 Fats 4.15 Carbo-hydrates 12.37 Salts 1.19 ----- Total 21.64 and .26 coffee.Same with rice instead of beans. Albuminates 3.47 Fats 4.11 Carbo-hydrates 12.50 Salts 1.14 ----- Total 21.22 and .26 coffee.Hard bread, ²⁄₃ fresh beef, ¹⁄₃ salt pork and beans. Albuminates 4.99 Fats 4.09 Carbo-hydrates 15.26 Salts 1.23 ----- Total 25.57 and .26 coffee.Hard bread, bacon and beans. Albuminates 4.10 Fats 9.06 Carbo-hydrates 15.26 Salts 1.29 ----- Total 29.71 and .26 coffee.The following table, compiled from standard authorities, gives an alimentary analysis of 100 parts of various substances used as food, by means of which the nutritive value of all ordinary diets may be calculated: --------------------------------+------+-------+-----+-------+------ |Water.|Albumi-|Fats.|Carbo- |Salts. | | nates.| | Hy- | | | | |drates.| --------------------------------+------+-------+-----+-------+------ Meat (best quality), beefsteak | 74.4 | 20.5 | 3.5 | ... | 1.6 Meat (average like soldiers), | | | | | less ¹⁄₅ for bone | 75. | 15. | 8.4 | ... | 1.6 Meat (very fat, stall fed) | 63. | 14. |19. | ... | 3.7 Salt beef (Girardin) | 49.1 | 29.6 | 0.2 | ... | 21.1 Salt pork (Girardin) | 44.1 | 26.1 | 7. | ... | 22.8 Fat pork (Letheby) | 39. | 9.8 |48.9 | ... | 2.3 Bacon (salted and smoked) | | | | | (Letheby) | 15. | 8.8 |73.3 | ... | 2.9 Fish (Letheby) | 78. | 18.1 | 2.9 | ... | 1. Poultry, less bone ¹⁄₆ (Letheby)| 74. | 21. | 3.8 | ... | 1.2 Butter | 6. | .3 |91. | ... | 2.5 Eggs (less ¹⁄₁₀ for shell) | 73.5 | 13.5 |11.6 | ... | 1. Cheese | 36.8 | 33.5 |24.3 | ... | 5.4 Bread (wheat, average quality) | 40. | 8. | 1.5 | 49.2 | 1.3 Biscuit, hard | 8. | 15.6 | 1.3 | 73.4 | 1.7 Wheat flour (average) | 15. | 11. | 2. | 70.3 | 1.7 Rice | 10. | 5. | 0.8 | 83.2 | .5 Oatmeal | 15. | 12.6 | 5.6 | 63. | 3. Cornmeal | 13.5 | 10. | 6.7 | 64.5 | 1.4 Peas (dry) | 15. | 22. | 2. | 53. | 2.4 Beans (dry) | 16. | 22.5 | 2.2 | 49.9 | 4.7 Potatoes, Irish | 74. | 1.5 | 0.1 | 23.4 | 1. Potatoes, sweet | 70.2 | 1.5 | 0.3 | 23.5 | 2.9 Yams | 74. | 2. | 0.5 | 16.2 | 1.3 Carrots | 85. | .6 | 0.25| 8.4 | .7 Parsnips | 82.4 | 1.125| 0.54| 6.39 | 1. Turnips | 90.5 | 1.1 | ... | 4. | .5 Cabbage | 91. | .2 | 0.5 | 5.8 | .7 Milk (average) | 88.3 | 3.5 | 3.1 | 4.5 | .5 Cream | 66. | 2.7 |26.7 | 2.8 | 1.8 Sugar | 3. | ... | ... | 96.5 | .5 --------------------------------+------+-------+-----+-------+------
Wikipedia 
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Food is material of animal or plant origin, eaten by living things to provide energy and nutrition. Food contains the nutrition that people need to be healthy. People need to eat protein, carbohydrates, vitamins, and minerals to be healthy. Liquids used for energy and nutrition are often called "drinks".
Food for humans is mostly made through farming or gardening, and includes animal and vegetable sources. Some people refuse to eat food from animal origin, like meat, eggs and products with milk in them. Not eating meat is called vegetarianism. Not eating or using any animal products is called veganism).
Food produced by farmers or gardeners can be transformed by industrial processes (the food industry). Processed food usually contains several natural ingredients and food additives (such as preservative, antioxidants, emulsifiers, flavour enhancers, etc.).
At home, food is prepared in the kitchen, by the cook. The cook sometimes uses a cookbook. Examples of cooking utensils are pressure cooker, pot, and pan.
Food can also be prepared and served in restaurants (often workers, or in the evening for entertainment) or refectory (in particular for kids in school).
The utensils used may be a plate, knife, fork, chopsticks, spoon, bowl, or spork.
Most people do not grow their own food, so they have to buy food that was grown by someone else. People buy most of their food in stores, shops, or markets. But some people still grow most or all of their own food.
People may buy food and ta
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🔤- food, noun, singular of foods.
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