Foodstuff vs. Food — What's the Difference?

A substance suitable for consumption as food

Food is any substance consumed to provide nutritional support for an organism. Food is usually of plant, animal or fungal origin, and contains essential nutrients, such as carbohydrates, fats, proteins, vitamins, or minerals.

A substance that can be used or prepared for use as food.

Any nutritious substance that people or animals eat or drink or that plants absorb in order to maintain life and growth

A material that may be used as food.

Material, especially carbohydrates, fats, and proteins, that an organism uses for energy, growth, and maintaining the processes of life. Plants, algae, and some bacteria make their own food through photosynthesis, while animals and most other organisms obtain food by consuming other organisms or organic matter.

(usually plural) consumer goods sold by a grocer

A specified kind of nourishment

A substance that can be used or prepared for use as food

Nourishment eaten in solid form

Something that nourishes or sustains in a way suggestive of physical nourishment

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

(countable) A foodstuff.

Anything that nourishes or sustains.

What is fed upon; that which goes to support life by being received within, and assimilated by, the organism of an animal or a plant; nutriment; aliment; especially, what is eaten by animals for nourishment.

Anything that instructs the intellect, excites the feelings, or molds habits of character; that which nourishes.

To supply with food.

Any substance that can be metabolized by an organism to give energy and build tissue

Any solid substance (as opposed to liquid) that is used as a source of nourishment;

Anything that provides mental stimulus for thinking