food source
Where meals come
A food source is anything that provides nourishment—a plant, animal, or location where food can be obtained.
The term appears in ecological contexts Berries are an important food source for bears and in discussions of agriculture or survival They identified several food sources in the forest.
It emphasizes origin or availability rather than the food itself.
- cereal cropsFood grains grown agriculturally
- staple cropsAgricultural dietary mainstays
- protein powdersConcentrated amino acid supplements
- nutrient denseHigh nutrition per portion
- seedsPlant embryos in casings
algae · plants · wild game · game meat · hunting and gathering · fruits · fermented foods · insects · dairy products · fish · tubers · fortified foods · foraging · plankton · kelp · edible plants · grains · fungi
- food websproducer, consumer, decomposer, predator, herbivores
nutritional function
food sourcepoison
Harmful ingested substance
toxin · waste product · excrement · famine · starvation