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Many plants commonly used as food possess toxic parts, are toxic unless processed, or are toxic at certain stages of their lives. Some only pose a serious threat to certain animals (such as cats, dogs, or livestock) or certain types of people (such as infants, the elderly, or the immunocompromised).
An Amblypodia anita (purple leaf blue butterfly) gathering nutrients from guano. Nutrition is the biochemical and physiological process by which an organism uses food to support its life.
Food is any substance consumed to provide nutritional support and energy to an organism. [2] [3] It can be raw, processed, or formulated and is consumed orally by animals for growth, health, or pleasure.
A selection of magnesium-containing food consumed by humans. The human diet can vary widely. In nutrition, diet is the sum of food consumed by a person or other organism. [1] ...
Kosher foods are foods that conform to the Jewish dietary regulations of kashrut (dietary law).The laws of kashrut apply to food derived from living creatures and kosher foods are restricted to certain types of mammals, birds and fish meeting specific criteria; the flesh of any animals that do not meet these criteria is forbidden by the dietary laws.
While almost all foodstuffs are derived from the natural products of plants and animals, [6] 'natural foods' are often assumed to be foods that are not processed, or do not contain any food additives, or do not contain particular additives such as hormones, antibiotics, sweeteners, food colors, preservatives, or flavorings that were not originally in the food. [7]
A slug, Arion vulgaris, eating a dead individual of the same species Cannibalism is the act of consuming another individual of the same species as food.Cannibalism is a common ecological interaction in the animal kingdom and has been recorded in more than 1,500 species. [1]
Various edible fruits arranged at a stall at the Municipal Market of São Paulo Fresh fruit mix of blackberries, strawberries, and raspberries. In botany, a fruit is the seed-bearing structure in flowering plants (angiosperms) that is formed from the ovary after flowering (see Fruit anatomy).