FOOD VOCABULARY
Food that is pre-cooked and sold to heat quickly.
Ready meal
To experience the flavour of food.
Taste.
Units of energy in food.
Calories
Smelling or looking delicious.
Appetising
To stop eating something completely.
Cut out.
Food bought from a restaurant to eat somewhere else.
Takeaway
A specific taste of something.
Flavour
Eating correct amounts of all nutrients.
Balanced diet.
Extremely tasty-looking
Mouth-watering
To become spoiled or bad.
Go off.
The items needed to prepare a dish.
Ingredients
How food feels in your mouth.
Texture
To gain weight.
Put on weight.
Containing too much oil or fat
Greasy
To eat a small amount between meals.
Have a snack.
The amount of food for one person.
Portion
Food with very little flavour.
Bland
To eat less in order to lose weight
Go on a diet.
Likely to cause weight gain.
Fattening
To become hungry after exercising.
Work up an appetite.
A set of instructions for preparing food.
Recipe
Food that tastes sharp and unpleasant.
Bitter
To reduce the amount of something you eat.
Cut down on.
Healthy and full of vitamins.
Nutritious
To eat or drink something (formal).
Consume