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Food security
Food security: condition in which all people at all times have physical, social, and economic access to sufficient, safe, nutritious food. Four pillars: availability, access, utilization, stability; concept dates to 1974 World Food Conference; 645 million faced hunger in 2025.
Food security during the COVID-19 pandemic
Food security during the COVID-19 pandemic, also known as the coronavirus famine, was the worldwide rise in hunger from 2020 as lockdowns cut incomes and disrupted food supply chains.
Food security in India
Food security in India: the FAO-defined condition of access to sufficient, safe, nutritious food, pursued through the Public Distribution System and the National Food Security Act 2013 covering about 80.67 crore people, with GHI measurement disputes and PMGKAY free grain.
Food spoilage
Food spoilage is the microbial, enzymatic, and chemical deterioration that makes food unacceptable, distinct from pathogenic contamination. Key controls are temperature, water activity, and hurdle preservation; it drives 15–20% global food waste.
Food stamp challenge
Food stamp challenge (SNAP challenge): week-long exercise living on the average SNAP benefit, from the 2007 $21/week congressional challenge to Gwyneth Paltrow's $29 week; used to debate benefit adequacy.
Food Standards Agency
The Food Standards Agency is an independent UK government department responsible for food safety and hygiene in England, Wales, and Northern Ireland, established in 2000.
Food storage
Food storage, also called stored food or a food cache, covers practices like drying, canning, and refrigeration that keep food edible and safe between production and eating.
Food storage container
A food storage container is a lidded vessel used to hold food in a refrigerator, freezer, or pantry, typically made of glass, plastic, stainless steel, or silicone.
Food technology
Food technology applies science and engineering to the selection, preservation, processing, packaging, and distribution of food, drawing on chemistry, microbiology, and engineering to ensure safety, quality, and shelf life.
Food truck
Food truck: a readily movable, self-enclosed vehicle or trailer that prepares and sells food. Descends from 1866 chuck wagons and pushcarts; gourmet boom began with 2008's Kogi truck; startup costs $75,000-$250,000.
Food Wars!: Shokugeki no Soma (食戟のソーマ)
Food Wars!: Shokugeki no Soma (食戟のソーマ) is a cooking-battle manga by Yuto Tsukuda and Shun Saeki, serialized in Weekly Shonen Jump 2012–2019 (36 volumes), about Soma Yukihira at Totsuki Academy, with a 5-season, 86-episode anime.
Food web
Food web: the network of trophic connections showing who feeds on whom in an ecological community; also called a food cycle. Key facts: ~10% energy transfer per trophic level, average connectance about 0.11, and the May complexity-stability debate.
Food web model
A food web model represents feeding interactions among a community's species as a network of nodes and links, used to analyze energy fluxes, trophic structure, and ecosystem dynamics.
Food-grade lubricant
A food-grade lubricant is a lubricant formulated so incidental contact with food does not adulterate it, built from ingredients cleared under FDA regulation 21 CFR 178.3570.
Food, Inc.
Food, Inc. (2008) is Robert Kenner's Oscar-nominated, Emmy-winning documentary on corporate control of the American food supply, based on Schlosser and Pollan; its 2024 sequel is Food, Inc. 2.
Food4Me trial
Food4Me trial: six-month web-based randomized controlled trial of personalized nutrition in seven European countries (1,607 adults, NCT01530139), part of the EU FP7 Food4Me project (2011-2015). Personalized advice improved diets versus conventional advice, but genotype-based advice added no benefit.
Food52
Food52 is an American food media and e-commerce company founded in 2009 by Amanda Hesser and Merrill Stubbs, known for its crowd-sourced recipes and kitchenware shop.
Foodborne illness
Foodborne illness, also called food poisoning, is any disease caused by eating food contaminated with bacteria, viruses, parasites, prions, or chemicals, causing over 200 recognized diseases.
Foodfight!
Foodfight! is a 2012 computer-animated comedy film with a budget of $45 million to $65 million. It was delayed for a decade due to production problems and hard drive theft.
Foodics
Foodics is a Saudi Arabian restaurant technology and fintech company founded in Riyadh in 2014 by Ahmad AlZaini and Mosab AlOthmani, serving over 40,000 restaurant branches.
Foodie
Foodie: informal term for a food enthusiast who eats as a hobby, coined around 1980-1982 (Gael Greene, New York magazine; Harpers & Queen), studied by Johnston and Baumann for its democracy-versus-distinction tension, and considered dated by the mid-2020s.
Foodora
Foodora is a European quick-commerce delivery platform, launched in Berlin in 2014, delivering restaurant meals, groceries, and household goods in Austria, Czechia, Hungary, Norway, and Sweden as part of Delivery Hero.
Foodpanda
Foodpanda is a food and quick-commerce delivery platform in Asia, launched in Singapore in 2014, owned by Delivery Hero, and covering over 400 cities in 11 markets.
FoodPharmer
FoodPharmer, the online identity of Revant Himatsingka, is an Indian health advocate who reviews food labels, leading to regulatory changes and the launch of his clean-label brand, Only What's Needed, in 2025.
Foodservice
Foodservice (food service) is the business of preparing and serving prepared food away from home, spanning restaurants, caterers, cafeterias, and institutional settings such as schools, hospitals, military, and hotels, a US market of about $1.41 trillion in 2025.
Foodstuff
Foodstuff: legal and trade term for any material intended to be eaten, chewed, or drunk by humans, in changed or unchanged state; synonymous with "food" in Codex Alimentarius usage.
Foodstuffs (company)
Foodstuffs is a New Zealand grocery retail group founded in 1922, organized as two regional co-operatives that own and supply the New World, PAK'nSAVE, and Four Square store brands.
Foodtastic
Foodtastic is a private Canadian restaurant franchising and brand-management company founded in Montreal in 2016, managing over 1,200 restaurants across brands like Second Cup, Pita Pit, and Milestones.
Foofur
Foofur: American Hanna-Barbera/SEPP animated NBC Saturday-morning series (1986-1988) created by Phil Mendez about a blue hound dog defending his inherited mansion from Mrs. Escrow; no domestic DVD or streaming release.
Fool Me Once (Coben novel)
Fool Me Once is Harlan Coben's 2016 standalone thriller, the first Sami Kierce book, about widowed pilot Maya Stern whose nanny cam shows her murdered husband Joe alive; adapted as the 2024 Netflix series with Michelle Keegan.