foodstuff

[ food-stuhf ]

/ ˈfudˌstʌf /

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noun

a substance used or capable of being used as nutriment.

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Origin of foodstuff

First recorded in 1870–75; food + stuff

Words nearby foodstuff

food pyramid, food science, food security, food service, food stamp, foodstuff, food stylist, food truck, food vacuole, food vessel, food web

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How to use foodstuff in a sentence

The right mix of materials—greens like foodstuffs and browns like newspaper and leaves—guarantee a nearly odor-free process.
Best compost bins: These eco-friendly products help you to do your part for the environment|Florie Korani|July 20, 2021|Popular-Science
The exact nature of the crisis is not clear, but the armed forces are widely blamed for not distributing foodstuffs to a populace perpetually underfed if not starving.
New Kim Jong Un Purge Suggests North Korea Is in Deep Shit|Donald Kirk|July 9, 2021|The Daily Beast
Rozin attributes the delayed onset of disgust to the omnivore’s dilemma, the fact that we must balance our ability to consume a wide variety of foodstuffs with the potentially steep consequences of poisoning ourselves.
Why We Love to Be Grossed Out - Facts So Romantic|Marco Altamirano|April 22, 2021|Nautilus
Senkut said that the company’s rollout would be similar to the ways in which Impossible Foods went to market, beginning with a few trial runs in higher-end restaurants and foodstuffs before trying to make a run at a mass consumer market.
Has a startup finally found one of food science’s holy grails with its healthy sugar substitute?|Jonathan Shieber|February 26, 2021|TechCrunch

From the 80s “fat is bad” paradigm to today’s “sugar is horrible” trend, it’s always been easy to vilify one food component, without digging into how each of us interact with the foodstuff we eat.
Massive National Health Study Looks to Tailor Your Diet to Your Genetic Makeup|Shelly Fan|February 16, 2021|Singularity Hub
Lobsters as a foodstuff have gone in and out of vogue numerous times over the past four centuries.
My Big, Buttery Lobster Roll Rumble: We Came, We Clawed, We Conquered|Scott Bixby|June 7, 2014|DAILY BEAST
As a child, cereal was more than mere packaged foodstuff; it was a passion.
George McGovern & Me|Mark Katz|October 21, 2012|DAILY BEAST
The only animal foodstuff produced in a natural package, easily preserved and handled, is the egg.
Our Domestic Birds|John H. Robinson
Suppose they use this world to grow monstrous quantities of unattractive but useful foodstuff—in a way—wild?
Operation: Outer Space|William Fitzgerald Jenkins
With our sea scouts and air scouts spread in organised network around, not a shipload of foodstuff could reach the country.
When William Came|Saki
But proteins are distinguished because they contain nitrogen in addition, which is found in no other foodstuff.
Foods and Household Management|Helen Kinne
These were probably the first to demonstrate the non-absorbability of petroleum and its valuelessness as a foodstuff.
The Propaganda for Reform in Proprietary Medicines, Vol. 1 of 2|Various

British Dictionary definitions for foodstuff

foodstuff

/ (ˈfuːdˌstʌf) /

noun

any material, substance, etc, that can be used as food

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