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/fuːd/ · noun
(uncountable) Any solid substance that can be consumed by living organisms, especially by eating, in order to sustain life..
The innkeeper brought them food and drink.
“[…] the awfully hearty sort of Christmas cards that people do send to other people that they don't know at all well. You know. The kind that have mottoes like Here's rattling good luck and roaring good cheer, / With lashings of food and great hogsheads of beer. […]”
Mostly, the microbiome is beneficial. It helps with digestion and enables people to extract a lot more calories from their food than would otherwise be possible. Research over the past few years, however, has implicated it in diseases from atherosclerosis to asthma to autism.
Variation and changes in the trans fatty acid content of different foods, especially in processed foods, further complicate such estimates.
The man's inspiring speech gave us food for thought.
Mozart and Bach are food for my soul.
This may prove food to my displeasure.
In this moment there is life and food / For future years.
Use food when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Food means (uncountable) Any solid substance that can be consumed by living organisms, especially by eating, in order to sustain life..
Common synonyms include Synonyms: see Thesaurus:food, belly-timber, chow, comestible.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
The innkeeper brought them food and drink.
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