foodstuff

[ food-stuhf ]

noun

1. a substance used or capable of being used as nutriment.

foodstuff

/ ˈfuːdˌstʌf /

noun

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

Word History and Origins

Origin of foodstuff¹

First recorded in 1870–75; food + stuff

Example Sentences

The right mix of materials—greens like foodstuffs and browns like newspaper and leaves—guarantee a nearly odor-free process.

From 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.

From 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.

From 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.

From 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.

From Singularity Hub 

Lobsters as a foodstuff have gone in and out of vogue numerous times over the past four centuries.

From The Daily Beast

As a child, cereal was more than mere packaged foodstuff; it was a passion.

From The Daily Beast

The only animal foodstuff produced in a natural package, easily preserved and handled, is the egg.

From Project Gutenberg

Suppose they use this world to grow monstrous quantities of unattractive but useful foodstuff—in a way—wild?

From Project Gutenberg

With our sea scouts and air scouts spread in organised network around, not a shipload of foodstuff could reach the country.

From Project Gutenberg

But proteins are distinguished because they contain nitrogen in addition, which is found in no other foodstuff.

From Project Gutenberg

These were probably the first to demonstrate the non-absorbability of petroleum and its valuelessness as a foodstuff.

From Project Gutenberg