food preference

collocation in English

meaningsoffoodandpreference

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food
noun[C or U]
uk
/fuːd/us
/fuːd/
something that people and animals eat, or plants absorb, to keep ...
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preference
noun[C or U]
uk
/ˈpref.ər.əns/us
/ˈpref.ər.əns/
the fact that you like something or someone more than another thing ...
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(Definition offoodandpreferencefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesoffood preference

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Thus, even if predators show somefoodpreference, they can use other resources when their preferred seeds are not available.
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Surveys using a random sample of consumers have also yielded positive results for localfoodpreference.
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For the remaining morphological fruit traits scored, there is no general understanding in the literature, nor a clearfoodpreferencefor certain consumer species in our dataset.
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There will be the fastfoodpreferenceof those who will receive a certain amount of money going to school in order to buy something.
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Pharaoh ants have a sophisticated strategy forfoodpreference.
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Herfoodpreferencehas also been a factor in her preparation of the desserts.
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However, providing for size, cod do exhibitfoodpreferenceand are not simply driven by availability.
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Their diet seems to change with the seasons, with more diversity infoodpreferenceshown in the drier seasons.
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Surprisingly there seems little difference infoodpreferenceby wildlife among different oak species.
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Foodpreferencevaries by season.
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The most important food and animal exposures and food preferences was analysed in the unmatched analysis, including 317 domestic cases and 445 controls.
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For example, dietary habits may be harder to change when they challenge the established values, behaviour patterns, and food preferences of a very close-knit network.
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Although the sisters shared meals, their personal food preferences meant that they could still experience quite different nutritional patterns.
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Patients were asked about their food preferences, allowed choices from the menus and any need for assistance with eating food recorded.
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In addition, such approaches are needed to understand how human food preferences affect agriculture's environmental footprint.
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Quality-of-life indicators may include improved quality of food, consumer food preferences, technology acceptance, or increased labour availability.
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Foodpreferencefor lorises is insects.
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A good understanding of termite foraging behaviour, and in particular food preferences, may contribute to the design of a bait station 'optimized' for termite foraging.
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We created a visual display of the menu from those days and asked 9 cases and 18 matched controls to identify their food preferences from this display.
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By using stated food preferences, rather than asking children to recall what they actually ate, we identified chocolate mousse as a food vehicle that was significantly associated with illness.
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