Sentence examples for edible substance from inspiring English sources

Oak moss contains a starchy edible substance.

But that musty, thick gloop is not an edible substance.

Unlike sushi, which was seen as an inedible form of an edible substance, most Westerners view insects as inappropriate for eating — the psychological equivalent of wood or paper — or dangerous, like cleaning fluid.

We all know people whose life mission is warning others of the danger lurking in every edible substance.

Unlike normal cooking, which uses foodstuffs as ingredients, Note by Note cooking uses chemical compounds and chemical reactions to create new edible substances.

Honey and coffee are natural edible substances that are agreeable, safe, rather reasonable and easily available.

Butter and other fat-based edible substances like lard should not be consumed in large amounts, as this raises the risk of cholesterol problems and heart disease.

You might not think of it as mouse food, but mice are attracted to all types of edible substances they can find on the ground, on counters and in cabinets.

From the nineteen-eighties onward, many traditional foods were removed from the shelves and in their place came packages of quasi-edible substances whose selling point was nutritional properties (No cholesterol! Vitamin enriched!) rather than taste.

Two shocking statistics: before 1950, every calorie of fossil fuel energy expended on food production resulted in 2.3 calories of food; these days it takes 10 calories of fossil fuel energy to produce one calorie of your edible foodlike substance.

Simply, since only the biggest food manufacturers can afford TV advertising, and more than two-thirds of TV food ads promote processed foods, declining to buy any food product backed by a big advertising budget means you're unlikely to ingest what Pollan charmingly terms "edible foodlike substances").