Food and Diet Vocabulary

Diabetes – serious illness in which a body cannot regulate the amount of sugar in blood.

Sentence – People suffering from diabetes have to have insulin injections, because they cannot produce their own.

Contaminate – To make inferior or impure by admixture

Sentence – Foreigners are seen to contaminate their precious homogeneity and disturb the peace.

Epidemic – a widespread occurrence of an infectious disease

Sentence – A flu epidemic is raging in/through local schools.

Fatal – causing someone to die.

Sentence – Fatal road accidents have decreased in frequency over recent years.

Lobby – to contact people with power like politicians and try to influence them for your benefit.

Sentence – The company agreed to inspect the river regularly, as a sop to the environmental lobby.

Regulate – control by means of rules and regulations.

Sentence – This is sprayed on to hair before perming and combed through to regulate hair’s porosity and ensure an even finish.

Risk factor – something that increases a person’s chance of encountering a risk

Sentence – Studies have established that smoking is a risk factor for cancer.

Stroke – sudden death of brain cells due to lack of oxygen.

Sentence – Warrior stroke Jingtao hack flow without sinking, coward in be in smooth water will drown.

Vegetarian – someone who does not eat meat or fish.

Sentence – The policy of charging air travellers for vegetarian meals proved unpopular and has already been rescinded.

Eggetarian – a vegetarian who also eats eggs and egg products

Sentence – Athletes turn eggetarians to fulfill their nutritional demand for protein.

Consume – eat, drink or ingest

Sentence – We need to rethink the way we consume energy. Take, for instance, our approach to transport.

Bland – tasteless

Sentence – Some dishes would be very bland without the judicious use of spices and other seasonings.

Aroma – a nice smell, especially from food

Sentence – There is a sharp tang mixed with an aroma reminiscent of fresh walnuts and hazelnuts.

Dessert – Sweet food eaten at the end of a meal

Sentence – They served apple pudding for dessert.

Entrée – main course of a meal

Sentence – Entrée should be ordered after the appetizers and is usually a heavy gravy curry with bread to go with it.

Kitchenware – things used for preparing food.

Sentence – The normal kitchenware waste much time in cooking , and easy to burn the food, if there is high voltage setting or electro, it is very danger once be remiss of !

Menu – the list of food and drinks served in a restaurant

Sentence – There is a vegetarian alternative on the menu every day.

Ingredients – all the foods used to make a dish or meal

Sentence – Blend the ingredients into a smooth paste.

Poultry – the flesh of chicken and other domestic fowl as food.

Sentence – Meat and poultry production fall under the control of the Agriculture Department.

Recipe – Instructions for cooking a dish or meal

Sentence – The recipe is given in both metric and imperial measures.

Fry – to cook something in hot oil or fat

Sentence – We can fry up some of these pieces of cold meat for our lunch.

Cutlery – implements for cutting and eating food

Sentence – Cutlery wrapped in singed tissue paper as fire-salvaged stock.

Grain – The seeds or fruits of various food plants including the cereal grasses

Sentence – A buffer stock of grain was held in case of emergency shortages.

Bake  – to cook in an oven

Sentence – Brush the aubergines with oil, add salt and pepper, and bake till soft. Meanwhile, heat the remaining oil in a heavy pan.

Appetizer – food served before the main course.

Sentence – For an appetizer my wife will have smoked salmon, but I prefer a shrimp cocktail.

Course – one part of the meal

Sentence – French people usually have three courses in a full meal.