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FOOD

Humans eat a wide variety of foodstuffs derived directly or indirectly from vegetable or animal sources.

vegetables

Plants used as foodstuffs; a simple way to classify vegetables is to group them according to their edible part. The sweet fruit category of plants constitutes another food category (fruits).

legumes

The main edible part of these pod-shaped fruits is their seeds, consumed fresh, dried or sprouted; if dried, they often require soaking before they can be cooked.

fruits

Usually sweet vegetables, primarily consumed at breakfast, as a snack or for dessert, and used extensively in pastry and candy making.

cereal products

Cereals that have been processed in various ways to make ground (flour, semolina), unground (rice) or manufactured products (bread, pasta, noodles).

dairy products

Foods produced by processing fresh milk; they are used daily in Western countries, where they are known for their high calcium content.

meat

Flesh of slaughter animals, consumed as food; a distinction is usually made between red meat, such as beef and lamb, and white meat, such as veal and pork.

fish

Fish with smooth flat scales and a rigid skeleton; the various species make up the largest group of fish.