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nutriment, nourishment, nutrition, sustenance, aliment, alimentation, victuals

 
 

a source of materials to nourish the body

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kinds of:

  • milk — produced by mammary glands of female mammals for feeding their young
  • course — part of a meal served at one time
  • dainty, delicacy, goody, kickshaw, treat — something considered choice to eat
  • dish — a particular item of prepared food
  • fast food — inexpensive food (hamburgers or chicken or milkshakes) prepared and served quickly
  • finger food — food to be eaten with the fingers
  • ingesta — solid and liquid nourishment taken into the body through the mouth
  • kosher — food that fulfills the requirements of Jewish dietary law
  • meal, repast — the food served and eaten at one time
  • mess — soft semiliquid food
  • mince — food chopped into small bits
  • puree — food prepared by cooking and straining or processed in a blender
  • stodge — heavy filling (and usually starchy) food
  • wheat germ — embryo of the wheat kernel; removed before milling and eaten as a source of vitamins
  • vitamin pill — a pill containing one or more vitamins; taken as a dietary supplement
  • vitamin — any of a group of organic substances essential in small quantities to normal metabolism

 
is a kind of:

  • food, nutrient — any substance that can be metabolized by an organism to give energy and build tissue

 
 

 

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