Edible
adjective
Something that can be eaten without causing harm.
Make sure the plants in your garden are edible before you eat them.
Often appears as...
- edible plants
- edible fruits
adjective
Pleasant or good enough to eat.
The food at the school cafeteria is barely edible.
Often appears as...
- barely edible
- just edible
Usage tips
Disapproving
adjective
Something that can be eaten without causing harm.
Make sure the plants in your garden are edible before you eat them.
Often appears as...
- edible plants
- edible fruits
adjective
Pleasant or good enough to eat.
The food at the school cafeteria is barely edible.
Often appears as...
- barely edible
- just edible
Usage tips
Disapproving
Definition 1 of 2
Pro Tip 1/3Safety First
Use 'edible' to express that an item won't cause illness if consumed, focusing on health.
Many wild berries are not edible, so be careful when foraging.
Pro Tip 2/3Culinary Context
'Edible' is often used to discuss whether unfamiliar or exotic foods are safe to eat.
I was surprised to find out that snails are edible and a delicacy in France.
Pro Tip 3/3Non-Food Items
Also describe non-traditional items like insects or flowers that can be eaten safely as 'edible'.
Edible flowers can add a splash of color to your salad.
Pro Tip 1/3Safety First
Use 'edible' to express that an item won't cause illness if consumed, focusing on health.
Many wild berries are not edible, so be careful when foraging.
Pro Tip 2/3Culinary Context
'Edible' is often used to discuss whether unfamiliar or exotic foods are safe to eat.
I was surprised to find out that snails are edible and a delicacy in France.
Pro Tip 3/3Non-Food Items
Also describe non-traditional items like insects or flowers that can be eaten safely as 'edible'.
Edible flowers can add a splash of color to your salad.
Pro Tip 1/3Safety First
Use 'edible' to express that an item won't cause illness if consumed, focusing on health.
Many wild berries are not edible, so be careful when foraging.
Pro Tip 2/3Culinary Context
'Edible' is often used to discuss whether unfamiliar or exotic foods are safe to eat.
I was surprised to find out that snails are edible and a delicacy in France.
Pro Tip 3/3Non-Food Items
Also describe non-traditional items like insects or flowers that can be eaten safely as 'edible'.
Edible flowers can add a splash of color to your salad.
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How we can eat our...
we could help design a commercial horticulture course for you is there's not one that we know of so they're doing that and we're going to launch it later this year and it's all an experiment and it's all voluntary and then there's the third plate because if you walk through an edible landscape and if you learning new skills and if you start to get interested in what's growing seasonally
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Should we eat bugs? -...
fiber, and micronutrients like vitamins and minerals. Did you know that most edible insects contain the same amount or even more mineral iron than beef, making them a huge, untapped resource when you consider that iron deficiency is currently the most common nutritional problem in the world? The mealworm is another nutritious example.
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Brie Larson Eats a Rhino...
Good protein, good snack, this is. BEAR As a general rule, raw grubs are edible. They have more protein, pound for pound, than beef. And they are plentiful in dark, damp places all over the world. But it's critical that they're purged before consumption, in case they've eaten something poisonous to humans.
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What's in a Lichen? How...
don't know what he said hi I'm Toby I work on likens please sit down and so Toby brought me this problem he said look his two lichens that were clearly different but when we look at their genes they were exactly the same Native Americans used the edible horse their lichen that brown stuff hanging
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Are food preservatives...
hopefully unspoiled, thanks to preservatives. But what exactly are preservatives? How do they help keep food edible and are they safe? There are two major factors that cause food to go microbes and oxidation. Microbes like bacteria and fungi invade food
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A Forest Garden With 500...
grows 500 edible plants with just a few hours of maintenance per month what we think of as normal in terms of food production is actually not normal at all annual plants are very rare in nature
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Making white people...
you're known for Iranian uranium enrichment now this last example is not edible if you're from a country where the stereotype is not edible you need to change the stereotype okay I wrote a
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How Do Goldfish Flirt? PIPE...
experiments revealed that goldfish recognize their owners they have surprisingly good memories to five months are long they're extendable jaw help suck up food the edible bets are
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The Secret Life of...
But the real powers of this place come from phytoplankton. Single-celled life that transforms sunlight and carbon dioxide into edible gold.
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A Spoon You Can Eat Is a...
to be created I brought in this edible cutlery and trying to promote a market for millets and motivate farmers to move away from
Video examples
How we can eat our...
we could help design a commercial horticulture course for you is there's not one that we know of so they're doing that and we're going to launch it later this year and it's all an experiment and it's all voluntary and then there's the third plate because if you walk through an edible landscape and if you learning new skills and if you start to get interested in what's growing seasonally
Video examples
Should we eat bugs? -...
fiber, and micronutrients like vitamins and minerals. Did you know that most edible insects contain the same amount or even more mineral iron than beef, making them a huge, untapped resource when you consider that iron deficiency is currently the most common nutritional problem in the world? The mealworm is another nutritious example.
Video examples
Brie Larson Eats a Rhino...
Good protein, good snack, this is. BEAR As a general rule, raw grubs are edible. They have more protein, pound for pound, than beef. And they are plentiful in dark, damp places all over the world. But it's critical that they're purged before consumption, in case they've eaten something poisonous to humans.
Video examples
What's in a Lichen? How...
don't know what he said hi I'm Toby I work on likens please sit down and so Toby brought me this problem he said look his two lichens that were clearly different but when we look at their genes they were exactly the same Native Americans used the edible horse their lichen that brown stuff hanging
Video examples
Are food preservatives...
hopefully unspoiled, thanks to preservatives. But what exactly are preservatives? How do they help keep food edible and are they safe? There are two major factors that cause food to go microbes and oxidation. Microbes like bacteria and fungi invade food
Video examples
A Forest Garden With 500...
grows 500 edible plants with just a few hours of maintenance per month what we think of as normal in terms of food production is actually not normal at all annual plants are very rare in nature
Video examples
Making white people...
you're known for Iranian uranium enrichment now this last example is not edible if you're from a country where the stereotype is not edible you need to change the stereotype okay I wrote a
Video examples
How Do Goldfish Flirt? PIPE...
experiments revealed that goldfish recognize their owners they have surprisingly good memories to five months are long they're extendable jaw help suck up food the edible bets are
Video examples
The Secret Life of...
But the real powers of this place come from phytoplankton. Single-celled life that transforms sunlight and carbon dioxide into edible gold.
Video examples
A Spoon You Can Eat Is a...
to be created I brought in this edible cutlery and trying to promote a market for millets and motivate farmers to move away from
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Quote examples
Andrew Zimmern
American Critic
There's fresh fish, and then there's fresh fish. Samoa is ranked as one of the best places for game fishing in all the world, and runs thick in the waters off the island chain. In fact, it's used as an edible currency in local markets. The day I fished there, we caught loads of yellowfin.
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Grant Achatz
American Chef
In a lot of ways, a lot of smells that aren't necessarily edible smell good, and they remind you of certain aspects of food. So making those associations with what smells good or smells a certain way and pairing that with actual edible ingredients is one avenue that we take creatively.
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David Fahrenthold
American Journalist
Things live and die, and then someone processes them into edible portions. This is a complete telling of the story, 'Food.' The basic plot hasn't changed for centuries. I shouldn't need to know any more details, any more history, in order to decide if my food tastes good or not.
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Mario Batali
American Chef
As they say in Italy, Italians were eating with a knife and fork when the French were still eating each other. The Medici family had to bring their Tuscan cooks up there so they could make something edible.
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Melissa Leong
Our favourite restaurants, cafes and eateries put a lot of thought into what they do, mostly for our pleasure. Perhaps we should consider a little more often, what we bring to this edible equation.
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Alain de Botton
English Writer
I remember going to university, and the people who'd left home for the first time looked at the food and were horrified. Whereas, my view was that if it was vaguely edible, then it's fine.
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Paul Stamets
American Scientist
Through trial-and-error and observable outcomes, our ancestors narrowed the field of edible mushroom candidates to just a few with remarkable, health-supporting properties.
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Michael Pollan
American Educator
A lot of what you see in the supermarket I would argue is not really food. It's what I call edible, food-like substances.
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Yahya Jammeh
Politician
Today, the origin of 90% of all the edible food Gambians consume are from places they have never heard of.
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Salvador Dali
Spanish Artist
The terrifying and edible beauty of Art Nouveau architecture.
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Andrew Zimmern
American Critic
There's fresh fish, and then there's fresh fish. Samoa is ranked as one of the best places for game fishing in all the world, and runs thick in the waters off the island chain. In fact, it's used as an edible currency in local markets. The day I fished there, we caught loads of yellowfin.
Quote examples
Grant Achatz
American Chef
In a lot of ways, a lot of smells that aren't necessarily edible smell good, and they remind you of certain aspects of food. So making those associations with what smells good or smells a certain way and pairing that with actual edible ingredients is one avenue that we take creatively.
Quote examples
David Fahrenthold
American Journalist
Things live and die, and then someone processes them into edible portions. This is a complete telling of the story, 'Food.' The basic plot hasn't changed for centuries. I shouldn't need to know any more details, any more history, in order to decide if my food tastes good or not.
Quote examples
Mario Batali
American Chef
As they say in Italy, Italians were eating with a knife and fork when the French were still eating each other. The Medici family had to bring their Tuscan cooks up there so they could make something edible.
Quote examples
Melissa Leong
Our favourite restaurants, cafes and eateries put a lot of thought into what they do, mostly for our pleasure. Perhaps we should consider a little more often, what we bring to this edible equation.
Quote examples
Alain de Botton
English Writer
I remember going to university, and the people who'd left home for the first time looked at the food and were horrified. Whereas, my view was that if it was vaguely edible, then it's fine.
Quote examples
Paul Stamets
American Scientist
Through trial-and-error and observable outcomes, our ancestors narrowed the field of edible mushroom candidates to just a few with remarkable, health-supporting properties.
Quote examples
Michael Pollan
American Educator
A lot of what you see in the supermarket I would argue is not really food. It's what I call edible, food-like substances.
Quote examples
Yahya Jammeh
Politician
Today, the origin of 90% of all the edible food Gambians consume are from places they have never heard of.
Quote examples
Salvador Dali
Spanish Artist
The terrifying and edible beauty of Art Nouveau architecture.
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