5.2.3 Types of food

Use this domain for words related to types of food.

  • What words refer to major types of food?
    cereal, staple, meat, fruit, vegetable, salad, raw food, cooked food, condiment, main dish, side dish
  • What words describe whether something can be eaten or not?
    edible, inedible
  • What words describe food?
    tender, tough, crisp, crispy, raw, stale, fresh

    • 5.2.3.1 Food from plants

    Use this domain for words related to food from plants.

    Related domains: 
    1.5 Plant
    OMC Codes: 
    137h Crops and vegetables
  • What words refer to plants that can be eaten?
    edible plants
  • What words refer to a person (or animal) who only eats plants?
    vegetarian

    • 5.2.3.1.1 Food from seeds

    Use this domain for words related to food from seeds.

  • What general words refer to seeds that are eaten?
    seed, grain, cereal, bean, legume, nut,
  • What types of grain are eaten?
    rice, wheat, corn, maize, barley, sesame, millet, sorghum, oat,
  • What types of nuts are eaten?
    peanut, groundnut, cashew, walnut, almond, cola nut, palm nut, coconut, cocoa nut
  • What types of beans are eaten?
    green bean, lima bean, kidney bean, pea, cowpea, soybean
  • What other types of seeds are eaten?
    cottonseed, pumpkin seeds, sunflower seeds

    • 5.2.3.1.2 Food from fruit

    Use this domain for words related to food from fruit.

    Louw Nida Codes: 
    3D Fruit Parts of Plants
  • What types of fruit are eaten?
    apple, apricot, avocado, banana, berry, blueberry, breadfruit, carob, citrus, cranberry, date, fig, flaxseed, grape, grapefruit, hayseed, jackfruit, legume, lemon, lime, linseed, mango, olive, orange, papaya, passion fruit, pea, peach, pear, pineapple, plantain, plum, prune, raisin, raspberry, strawberry, tomato

    • 5.2.3.1.3 Food from vegetables

    Use this domain for words related to food from vegetables.

  • What types of vegetables are eaten?
    vegetable, tomato, leek, squash, carrot, beans, greens, spinach, cabbage, lettuce, eggplant, okra, pumpkin, cucumber, red pepper, green pepper, cassava leaf
  • What types of gourds are eaten?
    gourd, pumpkin, squash, eggplant

    • 5.2.3.1.4 Food from leaves

    Use this domain for words referring to food from leaves and stems.

  • What types of leaves are eaten?
    leafy vegetable, salad, lettuce, cabbage, spinach, pumpkin leaves, cowpea leaves
  • What types of stems are eaten?
    sugarcane, rhubarb, celery

    • 5.2.3.1.5 Food from roots

    Use this domain for words referring to food from roots.

  • What types of roots are eaten?
    potato, sweet potato, carrot, onion, beet, cassava, yam, ginger

    • 5.2.3.2 Food from animals

    Use this domain for words referring to eating meat and to types of animals that are eaten. Only include those animals that are commonly eaten, especially those that are domesticated.

    Related domains: 
    1.6 Animal
    OMC Codes: 
    266 Cannibalism
  • What words refer to a person (or animal) who only eats meat?
    carnivore, carnivorous, meat eating
  • What types of animals are eaten?
    beef (cow), mutton (sheep), venison (deer)
  • What types of birds are eaten?
    chicken, turkey
  • What types of fish are eaten?
    tuna, trout, sardines
  • What types of reptiles are eaten?
    frog legs
  • What types of insects can be eaten?
    edible insects, white ant, termite, grub, locust
  • What words refer to honey and other insect products that can be eaten?
    honey
  • What types of small animals are eaten?
    shrimp, lobster
  • What words refer to eating human flesh?
    cannibal

    • 5.2.3.2.1 Meat

    Use this domain for words referring to meat and types of animals that are eaten. Only include those animals that are commonly eaten.

  • What general words refer to meat?
    meat
  • What words refer to different types of meat?
    ground beef, steak
  • What words refer to fat?
    fat, grease
  • What words refer to cartilage and other hard parts that are not eaten?
    gristle

    • 5.2.3.2.2 Milk products

    Use this domain for words related to milk products.

  • What types of milk products are eaten?
    milk, butter, cheese, cream, whey, milk solids, butterfat, yogurt, curd

    • 5.2.3.2.3 Egg dishes

    Use this domain for words related to food made from eggs.

  • What words refer to egg dishes?
    boiled egg, fried egg, scrambled eggs, poached egg, omelet, baked eggs, quiche, caviar (fish eggs)

    • 5.2.3.3 Cooking ingredients

    Use this domain for general words referring to ingredients--the things that are added together when preparing food.

    Louw Nida Codes: 
    5B Condiments
  • What general words refer to ingredients?
    ingredient
  • What words refer to thickeners?
    thickener, cornstarch, pectin, egg, gelatin, agar, wheat flour, corn flour, tapioca flour, cassava flour, sago flour, rice flour, glutinous rice flour,

    • 5.2.3.3.1 Sugar

    Use this domain for words related to sugar.

  • What words refer to sugar?
    sugar, sweetener, granulated sugar, white sugar, brown sugar, sugar cube, grain of sugar,
  • What words describe something that has sugar in it?
    sweet, sugary, sweetened,
  • What words refer to putting sugar in food?
    sweeten, sprinkle,
  • What containers are used for sugar?
    spoonful of sugar, sugar bowl

    • 5.2.3.3.2 Salt

    Use this domain for words related to salt.

  • What words refer to salt?
    salt, salty, saline, to salt, grain of salt,
  • What containers are used for salt?
    saltshaker

    • 5.2.3.3.3 Spice

    Use this domain for spices--things that are added to food to make them taste better.

  • What general words refer to spice?
    spice, flavoring, seasoning
  • What types of spices are there?
    pepper, curry, oregano, thyme, cinnamon, bay leaf, parsley, nutmeg, mint, cumin
  • What words refer to adding spice to food?
    spice, flavor, season
  • What words describe food to which spice has been added?
    spicy, flavorful, seasoned

    • 5.2.3.3.4 Leaven

    Use this domain for leaven--things that are added to food to make them ferment.

  • What words refer to leaven?
    leaven, yeast, baking powder (sodium bicarbonate), rising agent
  • What words refer to adding leaven to food?
    leaven
  • What words refer to what happens to food when leaven is added?
    rise, ferment

    • 5.2.3.3.5 Cooking oil

    Use this domain for words related to cooking oil.

  • What words refer to oil used in cooking?
    cooking oil, oil, margarine, shortening
  • What seeds are used to make oil?
    olive, corn, canola, cottonseed,

    • 5.2.3.4 Prepared food

    Use this domain for words referring to prepared food. Cultures vary widely in the number and types of foods they prepare, and in how they classify them. For instance the English distinction between main dish and side dish is not found in the classification system of other languages. If your language has well-recognized subcategories, you can set up a separate subdomain for each. The questions below are based on the main ingredient in the dish.

    OMC Codes: 
    263 Condiments
    Louw Nida Codes: 
    5B Condiments
  • What general words refer to prepared food?
    cooked food, prepared food, dish, course
  • What words refer to a major class of prepared food?
    main dish, side dish, meat dish, casserole, vegetable, staple, bread, soup, salad, fruit, condiment, dessert, candy, cookie, sweets, savories, snack
  • What general words refer to a food made primarily from meat?
    meat dish, main dish, main course
  • What types of foods are made primarily from meat?
    roast beef, steak, fried chicken, fish and chips, hamburger, hotdog, pizza, spaghetti, casserole, lasagna, stew
  • What foods are made primarily from staple foods?
    mashed potatoes and gravy, pasta, cooked rice, stuffing, oatmeal, porridge, cereal, mush
  • What types of bread are there?
    bread, pastry, brown bread, white bread, biscuit, muffin, roll, sweetbread, sandwich, tortilla, toast, loaf
  • What foods are made primarily from fruit?
    cranberry sauce, applesauce, fruit salad
  • What foods are made primarily from vegetables?
    side dish, vegetable, carrot sticks, onion rings
  • What foods are made primarily from leaves and stems?
    salad, tossed salad, green salad, coleslaw
  • What words refer to foods that contain a lot of water and are boiled?
    soup, tomato soup, split green pea soup, clam chowder, broth, stew, gravy
  • What types of condiments are there (foods that people only eat a little of, because they are expensive, strong tasting, or are added to other foods to flavor them)?
    condiment, garnish, pickle, olive, black olive, green olive, tomato sauce, catsup, mustard, mayonnaise, peanut butter, jam, jelly, preserves
  • What words refer to sweet foods?
    dessert, sweet (n), cake, ice cream, pie, cobbler, cookie, cinnamon roll, candy, chocolate, chocolate bar, pudding, lollipop, syrup, treacle,
  • What foods are eaten away from home (for instance on a journey or at work)?
    sack lunch, picnic lunch, dried food, C-rations, fast food

    • 5.2.3.5 Prohibited food

    Use this domain for words that describe food that is prohibited by the culture or religion. Do not list the foods that are prohibited.

  • What words describe food that is prohibited?
    prohibited food, taboo food, unclean
  • What words describe food that is not prohibited?
    kosher

    • 5.2.3.6 Beverage

    Use this domain for words referring to things people drink.

    OMC Codes: 
    272 Nonalcoholic Beverages
  • What general words refer to things people drink?
    beverage, drink
  • What types of drinks are there?
    water, milk, juice, tea, coffee, soda, soda pop, coke, milkshake, malt, chocolate

    • 5.2.3.7 Alcoholic beverage

    Use this domain for types of beverages containing alcohol.

    OMC Codes: 
    273 Alcoholic Beverages
    270 Drink and Drugs
    Drink, Drugs and Indulgence
  • What general words refer to alcoholic beverages?
    alcoholic beverage, alcohol, liquor
  • What types of alcoholic drinks are there?
    beer, wine, rice wine, sake, mead, whiskey, vodka, millet beer, banana beer,
  • What words refer to how much alcohol is in a beverage?
    proof

    • 5.2.3.7.1 Alcohol preparation

    Use this domain for words related to making alcoholic beverages.

    OMC Codes: 
    274 Beverage Industries
  • What words refer to making alcoholic beverages?
    brew
  • What are the steps in brewing?
    ferment, distill, mellow, age, ripen
  • What foodstuffs are used to make alcohol?
    hops, yeast, millet, corn (maize), rice
  • What equipment and materials are used to brew alcohol?
    distillery, brewery, still, filter

    • 5.2.3.7.2 Drunk

    Use this domain for words related to drinking alcohol and the effect it has on a person.

    OMC Codes: 
    275 Drinking Establishment
    Louw Nida Codes: 
    88K' Drunkenness
  • What words refer to drinking alcohol?
    drink, imbibe
  • What words refer to someone who drinks a lot of alcohol?
    drunkard, drunk, wino, alcoholic
  • What words refer to the effect alcohol has on a person?
    be drunk, be intoxicated, soused, had too many, under the influence, drink under the table
  • What words refer to the aftereffects of being drunk?
    hangover
  • What words refer to a drinking establishment?
    bar, saloon, bartender