FOOD PRODUCT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does food product mean? 

• FOOD PRODUCT (noun)
  The noun FOOD PRODUCT has 1 sense:

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

  Familiarity information: FOOD PRODUCT used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FOOD PRODUCT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Synonyms:

food product; foodstuff

Hypernyms ("food product" is a kind of...):

food; nutrient (any substance that can be metabolized by an animal to give energy and build tissue)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "food product"):

tapioca (granular preparation of cassava starch used to thicken especially puddings)

perishable; spoilable (food that will decay rapidly if not refrigerated)

juice (the liquid part that can be extracted from plant or animal tissue by squeezing or cooking)

concoction; intermixture; mixture (any foodstuff made by combining different ingredients)

curd (a coagulated liquid resembling milk curd)

milk (any of several nutritive milklike liquids)

dairy product (milk and butter and cheese)

egg; eggs (oval reproductive body of a fowl (especially a hen) used as food)

fixings; ingredient (food that is a component of a mixture in cooking)

cereal; food grain; grain (foodstuff prepared from the starchy grains of cereal grasses)

cocoa (powder of ground roasted cacao beans with most of the fat removed)

starches (foodstuff rich in natural starch (especially potatoes, rice, bread))

carob; carob powder; Saint-John's-bread (powder from the ground seeds and pods of the carob tree; used as a chocolate substitute)

dehydrated food; dehydrated foods (food preserved by dehydration)

canned food; canned foods; canned goods; tinned goods (food preserved by canning)

frozen food; frozen foods (food preserved by freezing)

flour (fine powdery foodstuff obtained by grinding and sifting the meal of a cereal grain)

fiber; roughage (coarse, indigestible plant food low in nutrients; its bulk stimulates intestinal peristalsis)

meal (coarsely ground foodstuff; especially seeds of various cereal grasses or pulse)

concentrate (a concentrated form of a foodstuff; the bulk is reduced by removing water)

coloring; colouring; food color; food coloring; food colour; food colouring (a digestible substance used to give color to food)

breadstuff (flour or meal or grain used in baking bread)

 Context examples 

The period of time during which the food product is considered usable after it is activated (opened).

(Food Product Stability Duration, NCI Thesaurus/BRIDG)

A discrete, structured plan (that persists over time) of a formal investigation to assess the utility, impact, pharmacological, physiological, and/or psychological effects of a particular treatment, procedure, drug, device, biologic, food product, cosmetic, care plan, or subject characteristic.

(Clinical Study Protocol, NCI Thesaurus/BRIDG)