No, it is not xylem. Food is conducted through phloem.
Conducting tissue in the form of xylem & phloem
Xylem
The Xylem Tissue
The vascular plants are differentiated in to root and shoot having conducting tissue in the form of xylem and phloem whereas mosses and liverworts have rhizoides in place of roots and lack xylem and phloem.
This is the vascular tissue xylem.
Plant tissue/ conducting tissue
Xylem
The most distinctive cells found in xylem are the tracheary elements, that is tracheids and vessel elements. However, the xylem is a complex tissue of plants, which means that it includes more than one type of cell. This is why it is a tissue not a cell.
Transports water and nutrients upwards
"Xylem" is the tissue that conducts water in plants.
Through conducting tissue (xylem)
Conducting tissue in the form of xylem & phloem
Xylem conducts water and minerals up from the root.Phloem conducts organic nutrients from one part of a plant to another.Lignin is an organic compound that makes the walls of conducting cells in xylem stronger, more waterproof and resistant. p288
Xylem is a type of plant tissue.
Xylem
No, xylem cells are in plants.I think anyway ;)Xylem is seen only in plants.It is the water and mineral conducting tissue
The Xylem Tissue