Food and drink terminology - Topics

What still counts as a whole food once it is in a box Superfood is a marketing slot with no agreed nutritional definition Why bowl became a food category of its own on menus Why the NOVA system files some whole-grain breads under ultra-processed A sandwich counts as a food while bread is an ingredient and the line moves per kitchen What artisan legally requires on a jar of jam Farm to table and locally sourced have no agreed definition Listicles and encyclopedia lists are different genres with different rules Start-class versus stub: the grading that decides whether a dish entry gets expanded Molecular gastronomy terms that outlived the trend that made them Stub-sorting tags for food articles look nothing like the ones for drink articles Award-winning on a supermarket jar means less than shoppers assume Spicy and hot name different sensations that menus blur together Natural on a food label has almost no legal definition The French on a menu that a diner actually needs to know Neat versus straight up versus on the rocks: bar terms people mix up A la mode means ice cream in Ohio and braised beef in France Translating a dish name loses more than it keeps