Collocations withfood

These are words often used in combination withfood.

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adequate food
This situation is more directly analogous to the captive monkeys in zoos, provided with adequate food but kept under serious crowding.
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amount of food
With this formulation, technological progress functions as an equalizing force in competition, because it reduces the excess amount of food procured by big types.
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basic food
Quantities of bread and beer, the basic food items, were given as wages to the workers.
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canned food
Canned food needed to be stored in such a way that it did not freeze or become overly damp.
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cat food
Cats were rewarded with moist or dry cat food depending upon whether they approached the peripheral stimulus or the central position, respectively.
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cooked food
After covering with a lid, the cooked food was similarly stored.
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dried food
During trial, fish were fed daily on powdered dried food flakes.
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favourite food
What is your favourite food?
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food allergy
A psychiatric study of patients with supposed food allergy.
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food allowance
It is quite true that a food allowance is paid in addition, but, even with that, the wages remain miserably low.
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food cart
The voice recorder did record the sound of the passengers using the food cart as a battering ram against the cockpit door.
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food colouring
There is no agreement between the experts on this question of food colouring.
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food crop
Unlike the case of tree planting, however, fallowing of food crop fields does not require labor effort and, hence, tends to weaken land rights.
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food dye
The media contained food dye to facilitate egg counts.
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food establishment
That none of the food handlers tested positive for norovirus 2 weeks after the wedding weekend suggests that the norovirus outbreak within this food establishment had a short lifespan.
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food guide
In the first of these she holds up (got this one here) one of these sheets and identifies it as a low fat food guide.
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food handler
The food handler had prepared the salad bread.
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food industry
The food industry heightened its attention to food handling practices, particularly hand washing, as the epidemic progressed.
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food inspection
Other restaurants, particularly the fast food industry, have instituted industry-wide efforts to avoid food contamination, and the federal government has begun more stringent food inspection systems.
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food intolerance
The agency has put a detailed fact sheet about food allergy and food intolerance on its website to provide food-allergic consumers with information.
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food irradiation
I am still receiving some representations about the safety of food irradiation and the need for controls over the use of the technique.
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food item
The material was sorted, and food item remains such as seeds, arthropod fragments, teeth, hair, nails, feathers, and scales, among others, were selected for analysis.
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food manufacturer
The premises of the food manufacturer were inspected and food samples were taken for microbiological analysis.
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food preference
Thus, even if predators show some food preference, they can use other resources when their preferred seeds are not available.
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food preparation
Wedding cakes were probably contaminated directly by infected food handlers, or indirectly via contaminated food preparation surfaces or utensils.
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food preservation
One would have to add the salt needed for many other uses, such as food preservation, tanning of skins, making textile dyes, and so on.
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food processing
Environmental swab specimens were taken from several locations of the food processing equipment after it had been cleaned using routine cleaning procedures.
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food production
Finding answers to this question would clearly help to reverse the declining trend in local food production and agricultural biodiversity.
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food riot
A campus food riot prevents them from getting her to the hospital in time, and they have to help deliver her baby in the classroom.
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food safety
Ideally, food safety education should be supported by regulation.
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food spoilage
It is essential to have effective microbiological sampling procedures in order to maintain effective quality control, monitor hygiene practices, prevent cross-contamination and ultimately food spoilage and food-borne illness.
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food stall
In the event of having too little, there must be a way to escape to run to the neighbours or a local food stall to get what is needed.
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food storage
Ritual performances and some domestic tasks (including food storage and serving and lithic production and use).
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food store
Thus, gardens with quickly maturing, small-bunched cultivars ensured continued availability of food and at the same time acted as a food store.
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food supply
Adaptation to increasing elevation appears, therefore, to be species-based, with a complex of factors-humidity, temperature, rainfall and food supply- determining growth rates and body size.
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food surplus
Irrespective of variety, farmers with a food surplus had higher adoption rates than those with a food balance.
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food voucher
This relief was given in the nature of a food voucher.
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food waste
Birds have free access to these food centres which were potential sources of anthropogenic food through improper food waste handling and disposal.
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fried food
A doctor told him that this condition was caused by excess consumption of roasted and fried food.
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frozen food
Work at low temperatures is becoming commoner with the rapid growth of the frozen food industry.
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genetically modified food
However, many scientists remain convinced that there are no health risks from eating genetically modified food and blame the media as the reason why consumers form negative opinions.
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gourmet food
In many countries, it is often sold as a gourmet food item.
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healthy food
For them, healthy food involved more preparation, while prepared or convenience foods were viewed as quick and tasty but not healthy.
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high-fat food
Pubertal stage was associated with high-fat food intake only in boys in our sample.
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homemade food
Every midday there was a long queue of people waiting to buy the excellent value, homemade food.
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importation of food
Then there is the question of the home production or the importation of food.
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imported food
Other changes included the reduction in exemptions to selected imported food and beverages, the unification of vehicular registration fees and the increase in the production and consumption tax to tobacco.
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leftover food
Salma's father criticizes her dirty and untidy ways, with unwashed dishes, vegetable peelings and leftover food strewn around the kitchen and flies crawling over the uncovered food.
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natural food
Wood was present to determine simply whether an additional natural food source increased termite activity.
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non-perishable food
The bleachers are open to the public, and the charge for entry is typically one kilogram of non-perishable food.
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nutritious food
The middle-aged participants had given much thought about how to promote harmonious relationships with their children, and they prepared nutritious food and soups for them.
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organic food
Research to support the development of organic food and farming.
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packaged food
Too much prepared packaged food in this country is still inadequately or misleadingly labelled.
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perishable food
But ought we to allow perishable food to travel on railways and go rotten?
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pet food
Once the outlets for fresh, frozen, marinating, kippering, curing, redding, even pet food, etc.
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plant-based food
Unlike those carnivorous fish, tilapia can feed on algae or any plant-based food.
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prepared food
Selling prepared food is widely practised by women.
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processed food
This may be inadvertent in some cases, as a wide variety of processed food and even some medications contain wheat flour.
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quantity of food
The quantity of food clearly contributed to the quality of the event.
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raw food
One of these consumption goods is cooked food, which requires raw food, fuel, water, and labor as inputs.
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retail food
Farmworkers receive only 6% of the retail food dollar12.
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sharing food
The changing layout of the table traced those who met there and celebrated their meeting by sharing food.
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snack food
This is in order to permit the industry to bring back the small packs which were sold as snack food.
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solid food
The high mortality around the time of weaning appears to result from the consumption of solid food.
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specialty food
The specialty food producers in this country have unique opportunities for exporting.
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spicy food
Besides the mentioned changes, they would eat less spicy food, take fewer night-snacks, and have nutritious soup more often.
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take-out food
Here, students can order take-out food of different varieties such as burgers, wings, and personal pizzas.
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ton of food
We must now take action to ensure that we grow every ton of food possible from our own soil.
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unhealthy food
Given the huge impact of advertising of unhealthy food on children's menu choices, advertising directed at this target group should be restricted.
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unprocessed food
Inflation in 2001 was affected by the lagged effects in import price increases in 2000, and by the new impact of livestock diseases on unprocessed food prices.
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variety of food
The sheer number and variety of food products, and complex combinations of ingredients in many processed foods, seem a major obstacle to any would-be regulator.
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vegetarian food
Local food vendors who sell vegetarian food invariably also dress in white to indicate their own participation in the rites.
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wholesome food
We need wholesome food, produced in an environmentally-friendly and humane manner, which is consumed as near as possible to the point of production.
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