Word Finder - foods

definition

Any solid substance that can be consumed by living organisms, especially by eating, in order to sustain life.

example

The innkeeper brought them food and drink.

definition

A foodstuff.

synonyms

• belly-timber
• foodstuff
• provender

definition

Anything that nourishes or sustains.

example

Mozart and Bach are food for my soul.

A great variety of industries is carried on, the chief being the manufacture of semolina and other farinaceous foods, confectionery, preserved fruit and jams, chemicals and rubber goods.

On the ground that the assimilable nutriment from a given weight of selected fruit and grain and nut and vegetable foods will cost less than the same nutriment obtained from flesh foods.

Other businesses in the food industry—say those pricey health foods you see at fancy grocery stores—optimize for taste and nutrition at the expense of price.

Concentrated and digestible foods give best results, a pig has a small stomach.

We do not need the trans fatty acids in processed foods.

Saliva contains the enzyme amylase, which breaks down starchy carbohydrate foods into simpler sugars that can be absorbed into your body.

Don't add salt to your food when cooking and at the table and be more aware of the salt content of pre-prepared foods.

The whole reason for setting up a food co-op is to purchase good foods cheaply.

Ideal with a range of foods from spicy Indian to creamy pasta dishes.

Eat only fresh foods that have been directly and sufficiently heat-treated.

Calculating the actual, societal costs of fatty foods, alcohol, cars, pet ownership, mercury thermometers, air conditioning, solar panels, razor blades, jogging shoes, and ten thousand other things, and incorporating those costs in the prices as taxes would lead to a vastly more efficient allocation of resources.

Still a lot of us trying to deal with not having light at night or our favorite foods.

Can you believe he drug out that box of cancer sticks while we were discussing the sale of natural foods?

Laristan is famous for the condiment called mahiabeh (fish-jelly), a compound of pounded small sprat-like fish, salt, mustard, nutmeg, cloves and other spices, used as a relish with nearly all foods.

Here are the hospital and laboratories of the American Medical Missionary College (of Chicago) and the Battle Creek Sanitarium, established in 1866, which was a pioneer in dietetic reform, and did much to make Battle Creek important in the manufacture of health foods, and in the publication of diet-reform literature.

The city is a trading centre for the rich agricultural and fruit-growing district by which it is surrounded, has good water-power, and is an important manufacturing centre, its chief manufactured products being cereal health foods, for which it has a wide reputation, and the manufacture of which grew out of the dietetic experiments made in the laboratories of the sanitarium; and threshing machines and other agricultural implements, paper cartons and boxes, flour, boilers, engines and pumps.

The staple foods for the common people are potatoes on the plateau (which are chiefly consumed in the form of locro, or potato-soup) and yuccaor cassava-meal in the warmer regions.

The industries include flour-milling, silk-throwing and spinning, and the manufacture of hats, lime, farming implements, preserved foods and nougat.

Meanwhile, the primitive meal is always more or less of a sacrament, and there are many food-taboos, the significance of which is, however, not so much that certain foods are unclean and poisonous as that they are of special virtue and must be partaken of solemnly and with circumspection.

Too much linseed, often used in preparing horses for market, gives a similar appearance, but is liable to induce fatty degeneration of the liver; given in moderation it regulates the bowels and stimulates the more perfect digestion of other foods.

They were verbal descriptors of the nutrient content of foods.

Feeding soft, textured foods tends to reduce mechanical abrasion especially in the buccal surface of the caudal cheek teeth.

There is no evidence that fatty foods, sweets, or chocolate either cause or aggravate acne.

The limited or uncertain availability of nutritionally adequate safe foods, or limited or uncertain ability to acquire foods in socially acceptable ways.

However, being severely allergic to certain foods, I can never afford to experiment with dishes that I am unfamiliar with.

This variety carries over into the suburban garden where they will also eat allsorts of kitchen scraps and bird foods.

British asparagus couldn't be easier to cook its one of nature's fast foods!

In the process of searching through the freezer, she causes an avalanche of frozen foods to fall to the floor.

It was with this attitude that GM foods were introduced in the UK, and which eventually prompted a huge public backlash.

Residues of polychlorinated biphenyl (PCB) in fatty foods of the Canadian diet.

Will eat most live foods as well as frozen bloodworms and, eventually, flake food.

These are found in a range of foods such as meat, fish, eggs, nuts, milk, wholemeal bread and cereals.

It contains moderate amounts of complex carbs such as wholegrain bread, with most vegetables being free foods, and fruit included daily.

These can be easily raised in newly hatched brine shrimp, powdered flake, and small daphnia and other pond foods.

However, the bioavailability of calcium from other plant foods is good, e.g. broccoli (see section 9 ).

These include foods like fresh fruit and vegetables, salads, fish, and hot chicken broth.

Favor Pitta pacifying foods include squash, warm milk, and homemade buttermilk.

An " Innovation station " section provides stories, market trends and innovations in foods containing dairy byproducts.

It can replace all or part of the sweetener solids in those foods and can also replace full caloric bulking agents.

And if you regularly eat foods that contain this carotenoid, you'll enjoy several healthy benefits.

The remaining patients ate their usual diet, including high GI foods such as beer, white bread, white rice and sugary cereals.

We also have a downloadable product checklist, showing the foods which are free from gluten, wheat, egg and milk.

Soon after adding some new foods, Swiss cheese being one of them.

Do not eat cooked chillies or other ' hot ' foods.

June 1995 to March 1999 July 1999 Leatherhead Food Research Association Analysis of chlorinated paraffins and chlorinated paraffins and chlorinated solvents in foods.

Animals obtain their energy by oxidation of foods, plants do so by trapping the sunlight using chlorophyll.

These foods often produce very viscous intragastric chyme and this program is designed to find out how the stomach deals with such food.

Some foods such as salt cod, require long, overnight soaking.

Some high school kids turn to a more healthy, natural foods diet to " stick it " to giant food conglomerates.

All foods should be covered or stored in sealed containers.