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Fanta
Fanta is a fruit-flavored carbonated soft drink brand of The Coca-Cola Company, created in 1940 in wartime Germany under Max Keith and relaunched as an orange soda in Naples in 1955, now sold in over 100 flavors across 180 countries.
Farm assurance
Farm assurance: voluntary certification schemes, mainly in the UK, where independent auditors check farms against standards for food safety, traceability, and animal welfare; developed after the BSE crisis, dominated by Red Tractor, reformed after the 2025 Farm Assurance Review.
Farrell's Ice Cream Parlour
Farrell's Ice Cream Parlour, an American 1890s-themed ice cream and sandwich chain founded in Portland, Oregon, in 1963 by Bob Farrell and Ken McCarthy; reached about 130 locations under Marriott, collapsed in the 1980s, revived in 2009, and closed its last Brea, California shop in 2019.
Fast casual restaurant
Fast casual restaurant: a dining segment combining quick-service counter ordering and speed with higher-quality ingredients, customization, and upscale ambiance, positioned between QSRs and full-service restaurants; known for Chipotle, Panera, and Shake Shack and strong 2010s growth.
Fast food
Fast food, also called quick-service restaurant fare, is standardized food served rapidly by chains with limited menus and off-site suppliers. Key facts: White Castle 1921; McDonald's 1948 redesign; $1.3 trillion global industry; higher fats, salt, and refined carbs.
Fast Food Nation
Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal is Eric Schlosser's 2001 investigative book on the US fast-food industry's effects on wages, health, and culture, adapted into Richard Linklater's 2006 film.
Fast-food restaurant
Fast-food restaurant, also called quick-service restaurant (QSR) or limited-service restaurant: counter-order, pay-before-eating dining with minimal table service. Defined by the 1948 Speedee Service System, drive-thru service, low checks, and NAICS 722211 classification.
Fast-moving consumer goods
Fast-moving consumer goods (FMCG) are low-cost, frequently repurchased products such as packaged food, beverages, personal care, and household essentials; the fastest-turnover subset of CPG, sold in high volume at thin margins.
Fat content of milk
The fat content of milk is the percentage of butterfat it contains, about 3 to 4 percent in cow milk, and a key measure of dairy quality and pricing.
Fat Thursday
Fat Thursday (Tłusty Czwartek) is the last Thursday before Ash Wednesday, opening the final week of Carnival before Lent. Best known in Poland for eating pączki, about 100 million doughnuts sold that day; distinct from Shrove Tuesday or Mardi Gras.
Fatburger
Fatburger: American fast casual hamburger chain founded in Los Angeles in 1947 by Lovie Yancey as Mr. Fatburger; made-to-order burgers in sizes up to 1.5 lb, now a FAT Brands franchise.
Fatima Ali (فاطمہ علی)
Fatima Ali (فاطمہ علی), Pakistani-American executive chef (1989–2019) from Lahore; first Pakistani woman to win Chopped, Top Chef season 15 Fan Favorite; died of Ewing's sarcoma; memoir Savor, Chef Fatima Foundation. Not the Fatima Aliyu fundraiser, Fatima Jinnah, or unrelated foundations.
Fava (Greek dish)
Fava (φάβα) is a Greek yellow split-pea purée; Santorini's version, from Lathyrus clymenum seeds, has been grown there for millennia and holds EU PDO status since 2010.
Fäviken
Fäviken is a farm in Jämtland, central Sweden, best known for the restaurant Fäviken Magasinet, which chef Magnus Nilsson ran from 2008 until it closed in 2019.
Faygo
Faygo, the One True Pop, is a Detroit soft drink brand founded in 1907 by bakers Ben and Perry Feigenson, with over 50 flavors like Redpop and Rock & Rye, now owned by National Beverage Corp.
Feast of the Seven Fishes
Feast of the Seven Fishes (la vigilia): Italian-American Christmas Eve meal of at least seven seafood dishes, rooted in Southern Italian Catholic meatless fast days and developed in the United States from the early 1900s.
Federweisser
Federweißer (Federweisser, Federweisse) is German partly fermented grape must, a young cloudy wine drunk in autumn with Zwiebelkuchen; called Sturm in Austria and burčák in Czechia.
Feijoada
Feijoada is Brazil's national dish, a black bean stew with carne seca, smoked sausages, and pork, served with rice, couve, farofa, and orange. Documented since the 1820s, its slave-food origin story is contested; restaurants serve it Wednesdays and Saturdays.
Fërgesë
Fërgesë (fërgesa), Albanian baked dish of peppers, tomatoes, onions, and gjizë curd cheese; name from fërgoj, "to fry"; Tirana specialty with summer, liver, Gjirokastra, and Shkodër egg variants.
Fermentation in winemaking
Fermentation in winemaking: yeast (mainly Saccharomyces cerevisiae) converts grape glucose and fructose to ethanol and CO2, followed by optional malolactic fermentation; temperature control, inoculated versus spontaneous fermentation, and stuck-fermentation risks define the process.
Fermented Foods
Fermented foods, or fermented foodstuffs, are foods made through desired microbial growth and enzymatic conversions, per the ISAPP definition. Includes yogurt, kimchi, kefir, sauerkraut, tempeh; studied for gut health, safety, and EFSA health-claim evidence.
Fernet
Fernet is a bitterly unsweetened Italian herbal liqueur style within amaro, launched by Fernet-Branca in Milan in 1845 (Vittone claims 1842). Argentina drinks about 75 percent of global output, mixed with cola as fernet con coca.
Fernet-Branca
Fernet-Branca, the original fernet amaro created in Milan in 1845 by apothecary Bernardino Branca for Fratelli Branca Distillerie; a 39% ABV bitter liqueur with a secret 27-botanical recipe, famous in Argentina as fernet con coca.
Ferran Adrià
Ferran Adrià, Catalan chef (born 1962) who led elBulli at Cala Montjoi, named world's best restaurant five times, pioneered foams, spherification, and the tasting-menu format, closed it in 2011, and now runs elBullifoundation and Bullipedia.
Ferrara Candy Company
Ferrara Candy Company, formerly Ferrara Pan, is a Chicago-based sugar confectioner founded in 1908, now a Ferrero affiliate after the 2017 CTH Invest acquisition, with brands including NERDS, Trolli, Brach's, and Jelly Belly and FY2025 net sales of $2.2 billion.
Ferrero Rocher
Ferrero Rocher is a spherical hazelnut-chocolate confection by Italy's Ferrero Group: a whole hazelnut in a wafer sphere coated in chocolate and hazelnuts, created in 1982.
Feta (φέτα)
Feta (φέτα) is the Greek PDO white brined cheese made from sheep milk or sheep with up to 30% goat milk in designated mainland and Lesbos regions, ripened at least two months in brine; protected since 2002.
Fettuccine Alfredo
Fettuccine Alfredo, or fettuccine all'Alfredo, is a Roman pasta dish of fettuccine, butter, and Parmesan created in 1908 by Alfredo Di Lelio; the American cream-based version differs, and the dish is far better known in the United States than in Italy.
Feuerzangenbowle
Feuerzangenbowle (fire-tongs punch) is a German flaming Christmas punch: spiced mulled red wine topped by a burning rum-soaked sugarloaf (Zuckerhut) over 54% ABV, famed via the 1944 Rühmann film.
Fiji Water
Fiji Water is an American-owned brand of bottled artesian water drawn from a single aquifer in Fiji, founded in 1996 and sold in over 80 countries.