mushrooms seeds and nuts

Edible fungi[edit]

Commercial cultivated Japanese edible mushroom species

• Edible fungi – edible fungi are the fleshy and edible fruit bodies of several species of macrofungi (fungi which bear fruiting structures that are large enough to be seen with the naked eye). They can appear either below ground (hypogeous) or above ground (epigeous) where they may be picked by hand.^[6] Edibility may be defined by criteria that include absence of poisonous effects on humans and desirable taste and aroma.^[7][8]

• Edible mushroom
• List of mushroom dishes

Edible nuts and seeds[edit]

Raw mixed nuts

Rice is the seed of the monocotplants Oryza sativa (Asian rice) or Oryza glaberrima (African rice). Pictured is a mixture of brown, white, and red indica rice, (also containing wild rice).

• Edible nuts and seeds – a nut is a fruit composed of a hard shell and a seed, where the hard-shelled fruit does not open to release the seed (indehiscent). In a culinary context, a wide variety of dried seeds are often called nuts, but in a botanical context, only ones that include the indehiscent fruit are considered true nuts. The translation of "nut" in certain languages frequently requires paraphrases, as the word is ambiguous.

Many seeds are edible and the majority of human calories comes from seeds,^[9] especially from cereals, legumes and nuts. Seeds also provide most cooking oils, many beverages and spices and some important food additives.

• List of culinary nuts
• List of edible seeds
• List of sesame seed dishes

Baked goods[edit]

Main article: List of baked goods

Baked goods are cooked by baking, a method of cooking food that uses prolonged dry heat.

Breads[edit]

Various leavened breads

• Breads – bread is a staple food prepared from a dough of flour and water, usually by baking. Throughout recorded history it has been popular around the world and is one of humanity's oldest foods, having been of importance since the dawn of agriculture.

• List of breads

• List of American breads
• List of brand name breads
• List of bread rolls
• List of buns
• List of British breads
• List of Indian breads
• List of Pakistani breads
• List of quick breads
• List of sweet breads

• List of bread dishes

Dairy products[edit]

• Dairy products – dairy products are food produced from the milk of mammals. Dairy products are usually high energy-yielding food products. A production plant for the processing of milk is called a dairy or a dairy factory. Apart from breastfed infants, the human consumption of dairy products is sourced primarily from the milk of cows, yet goats, sheep, yaks, horses, camels, and other mammals are other sources of dairy products consumed by humans.

• List of dairy products

• List of butter dishes
• List of cheeses

• List of American cheeses
• List of brined cheeses
• List of British cheeses

• List of French cheeses
• List of Irish cheeses
• List of Italian cheeses
• List of Polish cheeses

• List of cheese dishes

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  Various cheeses
 
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  A bottle of milk
 
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  Yogurt

Eggs[edit]

• Eggs – eggs are laid by female animals of many different species, including birds, reptiles, amphibians, and fish, and have been eaten by humans for thousands of years.^[10] Bird and reptile eggs consist of a protective eggshell, albumen (egg white), and vitellus (egg yolk), contained within various thin membranes. Popular choices for egg consumption are chicken, duck, quail, roe, and caviar, but the egg most often consumed by humans is the chicken egg, by a wide margin.

• List of egg dishes
• List of egg topics

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  Fried eggs
 
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  A batch of tea eggs with shell still on soaking in a brew of spices and tea, an example of edible eggs

Meat[edit]

• Meat – meat is animal flesh that is eaten as food.^[11]:1 Humans are omnivorous,^[12][13][14] and have hunted and killed animals for meat since prehistoric times.^[14]The advent of civilization allowed the domestication of animals such as chickens, sheep, pigs and cattle, and eventually their use in meat production on an industrial scale. Today, humans consume not only chicken, mutton, pork and beef but also meats of camel, horse, dog, cat, alligator, crocodile, turtle, dolphin, emu, ostrich, duck, deer, zebra, water buffalo, whale, snake, frog, guinea pig, rabbit, squirrel, porcupine and monkey.

• List of meat dishes
• List of beef dishes
• List of chicken dishes
• List of domesticated meat animals
• List of hamburgers
• List of hams
• List of kebabs
• List of pork dishes

• List of bacon dishes

• List of sausages

• List of sausage dishes
• List of hot dogs

• List of meat dishes

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  The standing rib roast, a cut of beef
 
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  Various meats
 
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  Chorizo sausage

Cereals[edit]

• Cereals – True cereals are the seeds of certain species of grass. Maize, wheat, and rice account for about half of the calories consumed by people every year. Grains can be ground into flour for bread, cake, noodles, and other food products. They can also be boiled or steamed, either whole or ground, and eaten as is. Many cereals are present or past staple foods, providing a large fraction of the calories in the places that they are eaten.

• List of edible seeds
• List of fried dough foods

• List of doughnut varieties

• List of maize dishes
• List of pasta
• List of porridges
• List of rice dishes

Seafood[edit]

• Seafood – seafood is any form of sea life regarded as food by humans. Seafood prominently includes fish and shellfish. Shellfish include various species of molluscs, crustaceans, and echinoderms.

• Fish – fish is consumed as a food by many species, including humans. The word "fish" refers to both the animal and to the food prepared from it. In culinary and fishery contexts, the term fish also includes shellfish, such as molluscs, crustaceans and echinoderms. Fish has been an important source of protein for humans throughout recorded history.

• List of fish dishes

• List of cod dishes
• List of herring dishes
• List of raw fish dishes

• List of seafood dishes

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  Seafood includes any form of food taken from the sea
 
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  Tanks of seafood at a Cantoneserestaurant
 
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  The preparation of smoked salmon
 
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  Prepared lobster

Staple foods[edit]

• Staple foods – staple food, sometimes called food staple or staple, is a food that is eaten routinely and in such quantities that it constitutes a dominant portion of a standard diet in a given population, supplying a large fraction of the needs for energy-rich materials and generally a significant proportion of the intake of other nutrients as well. Most people live on a diet based on just a small number of staples.^[15] Most staple plant foods are derived either from cereals such as wheat, barley, rye, maize, or rice, or starchy tubers or root vegetables such as potatoes, yams, taro, and cassava.^[16] Other staple foods include pulses (dried legumes), sago (derived from the pith of the sago palm tree), and fruits such as breadfruit and plantains.^[17] Of more than 50,000 edible plant species in the world, only a few hundred contribute significantly to human food supplies. Just 15 crop plants provide 90 percent of the world's food energy intake (exclusive of meat), with rice, maize and wheat comprising two-thirds of human food consumption. These three alone are the staples of over 4 billion people.^[18]

• Staple foods
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  Rice
 
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  Maize
 
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  A sack of wheat