foodstuff Definition
food·stuff (fo̵̅o̅d′stuf′)
noun
any substance used as food
foodstuff Usage Examples
Converse of object
- contaminate: Do not store the samples during transit or at home in areas likely to contaminate foodstuffs or drinks.
- intend: A national center for hygiene is responsible for inspections of all foodstuffs intended for sale in Mauritania of animal and vegetable origin.
- import: The new microbiological criteria also apply to imported foodstuffs.
- modify: The first is the fundamental question whether it is right in principle to modify foodstuffs genetically.
- eat: Should we eat foodstuffs which had been genetically manipulated using human genes?
- sell: Today the livestock market has moved from the town center, although a new covered market sells foodstuffs and general produce.
Preposition: onto
pallet: Out with captain foodstuffs onto pallets a palm tree.
Adjective modifier
- perishable: Gender bias in agricultural market liberalization Women usually occupy particular niches in agricultural markets, as small-scale, retail traders in perishable foodstuffs.
- imported: On their fat salaries and the extra they get from bribery and corruption they can afford to buy imported foodstuffs.
- processed: There are a few extra natural and processed foodstuffs.
- poisonous: Steyn DG ( 1934 ) The Toxicology of Plants in South Africa together with a consideration of poisonous foodstuffs and fungi.
- staple: The price of corn - a staple foodstuff - rose by 250 % during the same time.
- contaminated: Transmission to humans usually occurs through eating contaminated foodstuffs particularly beef products.
Modifies a noun
- sector: This was one of the major proposals in the foodstuffs sector.
- etc.: Cheaper prices of imported foodstuffs etc. will also have a negative effect on the rate of consumer price inflation.
Noun used with modifier
animal: Controls Food industry: Control animal foodstuffs Limit contamination possibilities during slaughtering.
Preposition: of
origin: Collagen hydrolysate is present in meat, diary products and other foodstuffs of animal origins.
Preposition: for
- livestock: The insistence on the use of organic fertilizers means that all foodstuffs for livestock grow more slowly.
- purpose: The dye could be linked with cancer and is not permitted in foodstuffs for any purpose.
- consumption: Small-scale farmers responsible for the production of foodstuffs for local consumption were particularly badly affected by Hurricane Mitch.
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