usable food

Grammar usage guide and real-world examples

Home cooks are endlessly lectured about cutting back the 30% of usable food we are said to throw away.

I take pride in butchering the deer I shoot, but have no idea what it takes to reduce a ten-pound reptile to usable food.

I think it is more morally questionable that they are throwing away that much usable food than that people are diving in and recovering it.

They traveled more than 3,000 miles to the islands' protected channels, leaving behind any usable food source, but lured by the drive to breed.

Ms. Minard's specialty is food waste — a growing concern over the vast quantities of usable food that is jamming landfills and producing contamination while many go hungry.

Ms. Lockwood said the company now recycles things like aluminum and shrink wrap, reuses items like wood pallets, donates usable food to charity and turns other food into animal feed or compost.

If you have time before the move, you may want to run through the usable foods in your pantry and freezer.

This new category could be named for example "functional food" usable for both healthy nutrition and medical intervention and requiring trials based on elements established in part in the health claim regulations and in part in the drug laws.

These substances include digestible (metabolizable) as well as indigestible materials, and they may be excreted almost immediately, even though they are often usable as food.

A vegan diet may lack vitamin B12, found only in animal foods; usable vitamins A and D, found in meat, fish, eggs and butter; and necessary minerals like calcium and zinc.

[10], [11] This programming may consequently affect the individuals metabolism by promoting the conversion of proteins and lipids to usable carbohydrates, increase food-seeking behaviors, and inhibit insulin action on glucose uptake.