Food

What is food? Food is the materials that living things eat to get energy and materials to build and repair their bodies.

Food.

Food is one of the things we can't live without. We extract the chemicals we need to build bones, grow muscles and make all of our organs.

Because food is so essential, we have special taste buds in our mouths that make useful foods attractive. More receptors make it smell attractive, too.

There are a vast number of different kinds of food, all looking tasty. You can look at 100 of them by clicking the icon above. To find out about food history, food science and other things related to food, choose the other food topics in search.

World Food Day occurs on the 16th October every year. Food security is an ongoing problem that has faced people down the ages, so food storage has been important in more or less every period of history, so whatever history topic you happen to be studying, it is sure to be relevant.

There are a vast number of different kinds of food, all looking tasty. You can look at 100 of them by clicking the icon above. To find out about food history, food science and other things related to food, choose the other food topics in search.

The reading room has an enormous range of food books. Some of them are gathered together by continent under 'Our world' in geography. Many science topics are also about food.

Have a look at the search entry on diet, too.

Jump to the 'All about food' topic by clicking the link below.

Video: Making a pancake.

Explore these further resources...

(These links take you to other parts of our web site, never to outside locations.)

You can search in these books (but there are MANY more under each food type in SEARCH):


You can look in this topic for more books, videos and teacher resources:

Jump to All about food toolkit screen
The toolkit screen link will take you to a library containing a selection of:
an i-topic, more books, pictures, videos and teacher's stuff related to the search word.
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