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Definition of Foods
1. food [n] - See also: food
Lexicographical Neighbors of Foods
Literary usage of Foods
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Preventive Medicine and Hygiene by Milton Joseph Rosenau, George Chandler Whipple, John William Trask, Thomas William Salmon (1921)
"CLASSIFICATION OF foods foods are classified in various ways, ... foods arc
classed in accordance with their general physical properties first into solid, ..."
2. Sunsetby Southern Pacific Company, Southern Pacific Company. Passenger Dept by Southern Pacific Company, Southern Pacific Company. Passenger Dept (1912)
"SUNSET, The Pacific Monthly—Advertising Section BRAINY Popular Educational Food
Campaign Striking Effects of Different foods NOTE. ..."
3. A Manual of pharmacology and its applications to therapeutics and toxicology by Torald Hermann Sollmann (1917)
"MEDICINAL foods Limitations.—The administration of food in the guise of medicine
is ometimes advantageous; but medicinal foods are subject to the ordinary ..."
4. The Popular Science Monthly (1873)
"They thus resemble certain medicines in their action, but, as they supply a
proportion of nutritive material, they should be ranked as foods. ..."