The phrase "administers food" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts related to healthcare, nutrition, or caregiving, where someone is responsible for providing or delivering food to others.
Example: "The nurse administers food to patients who are unable to feed themselves."
Alternatives: "provides food" or "delivers food".
New York State, which administers food stamps locally, signed on to the request, which was received by the Agriculture Department on Wednesday evening.
Gov. Gary R. Herbert said the employees work for the Department of Workforce Services, which administers food stamp programs and other public benefits.
A city agency that administers food stamps, the Human Resources Administration, claimed that she had not told the truth about being married.
Assistant chief constable Chris Shead said: "We still don't know whether the King family have any spare batteries for the machine which administers food, the knowledge, or any way of recharging the battery.
For example, although such data is readily available, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (which administers food assistance) refuses to make public how much money individual retailers make from SNAP.
If carefully selected and properly administered, food may be used to strengthen health or cure diseases: "Food, therefore, is also medicine" (Chang 1977: 10).
Without properly administered food Ashya's situation is very serious".
But, despite entreaties from those who administer food banks here, our government decided to opt out.
However, the law also required states to allow registration at offices that administer food stamps, welfare, Medicaid, disability assistance and child health programs.
They graded the severity of macular degeneration on a scale of one to five, administered food frequency questionnaires and calculated the dietary glycemic index, a number indicating the quantity of high-glycemic foods consumed, for each participant.
Dr. McClellan said that states could help establish a person's identity and citizenship by using records of state agencies that administer food stamps, child support and child protective services, as well as the agencies that issue driver's licenses.
