(a.) Fit to be eaten as food; eatable; esculent; as, edible fishes.
(n.) Anything edible.
Example Sentences:
(1) Basic foodstuffs, such as flour, sugar and edible oils, are heavily subsidised.
(2) We tested semihardened blends of edible oils, suitable for commercial food manufacture, with a lower-than-conventional saturated fatty acid content, for their effects on plasma cholesterol.
(3) The insecticides did not translocate into the edible parts of the vegetables but were present in the root system of onion and lettuce.
(4) The possibility of incorporating Icacinia manni among the edible starchy plant tubers is discussed.
(5) A simple procedure for the enzymic digestion of edible tissues is described and compared with other procedures.
(6) With a long-term (1 and 4 months) introduction of an additional amount of edible fats (beef, hog fats, butter, sunflower seed oil) to intact and intratracheally quartz-dust laden sexually mature male rats an organ-specific reaction to the supply of fat, and in intact rats, also some peculiarities of the reaction depending upon the kind of the introduced fats, were discovered.
(7) The unsuspecting public may not realise that the call to avoid palm oil is nothing more than a trade ploy since in recent years palm oil has been very competitive and has gained a major share of the world's edible oils and fats market.
(8) Culture of Gambusia along with edible fish in village ponds is, therefore, recommended to get the dual benefit of fish production and control of mosquito proliferation in village ponds.
(9) The longterm solution to vitamin A deficiency is community development and increased consumption of dark green edible plants and red and orange fruits.
(10) Beacon Food Forest, Seattle, Washington, US This Seattle project, called the Beacon Food Forest, is turning public land into an edible forest where residents can forage for fruits, pumpkins and nuts.
(11) Two regions of the brain of the edible snail were stimulated.
(12) Evidence is presented which establishes that mackerel fed in captivity can, by relay from contaminated shellfish via sand eels, accumulate paralytic shellfish poisons (PSP) in the edible flesh at a level (250 micrograms saxitoxin equivalents per kg) similar to that in the contaminated shellfish.
(13) Optimal conditions were chosen for cultivation of Escherichia coli 85 cells with a rather high fumarate-hydratase activity on a cheap medium containing no edible raw material.
(14) Variously billed as edible networking, curry induced knowledge exchange, and a good excuse to eat curry and chat social care, the appetite for curry has surpassed all expectations.
(15) Loliware and WikiFoods have had relatively good success since launching their products this year, but whether people will have an appetite for edible technology as the future of sustainable packaging is yet to be determined.
(16) Runner-up: RISC edible roof garden and alternative kitchen garden Jupiter Big Idea Winner: Naturepaint Naturepaint is a totally natural paint product that comes in a powder form.
(17) separable lean, separable fet, and total edible portions of Choice grade cuts of beef is given, as well as a table acids per 100 gm.
(18) The edible mushroom Pleurotus ostreatus (with locally reported toxic properties) was identified and collected 1-4 days after raining in the city of Baghdad.
(19) Functional movement training avoidance plus edibles and praise produced about 90% attention for the three children, while edibles and praise alone were less effective (eye contact never exceeded 55%).
(20) Nutrient composition and biologic utilization of cooked, dried, and ground meals prepared from fresh and field-dried, green-seeded edible soybeans were evaluated.
Wholesome
Definition:
(superl.) Tending to promote health; favoring health; salubrious; salutary.
(superl.) Contributing to the health of the mind; favorable to morals, religion, or prosperity; conducive to good; salutary; sound; as, wholesome advice; wholesome doctrines; wholesome truths; wholesome laws.
(superl.) Sound; healthy.
Example Sentences:
(1) If teen stars Gomez (a former girlfriend of Justin Bieber and the star of Disney's The Wizards of Waverly Place) , Benson ( Pretty Little Liars ) and Hudgens (Gabriella Montez in the High School Musical series) wanted to obliterate their wholesome reputations, this was one way to do it.
(2) Having demonstrated the wholesomeness of irradiated food, then scientists had to prove that nutritional impact of food irradiation was minor.
(3) It was watching his films that had made Waters want to try to evoke in California "the sunny good feelings of another world that contained so much that was incomplete or missing in our own – the simple, wholesome, good food of Provence, the atmosphere of tolerant camaraderie and great lifelong friendships, and a respect for both the old folks and their pleasures and for the young and their passions".
(4) Based on current knowledge, more wholesome dietary traditions for chronic disease prevention in most countries can be developed.
(5) What's staggering is that boredom still has such a wholesome, desirable image.
(6) Papers they have co-authored give a flavour of their stance: "If relativist philosophy is acceptable, then sadomasochism, bestiality and self-abuse are to be considered as wholesome activities," runs one.
(7) Anyway, many of the small-batch manufacturers are naturally producing a more wholesome end product.
(8) In spite of several quality control procedures used by Australia to ensure the wholesomeness of export meat, a number of pesticide residue violations were identified in the Australian product exported to the USA in May 1987.
(9) Only with knowledge of a system, an open attitude, and an international perspective of caring, can attempts be made to make the north-south relationship between North America and South America a wholesome experience of reality.
(10) Last month a paper in the BMJ stated that replacing saturated animal fats, which are traditionally thought of as bad, with omega-6 polyunsaturated vegetable fats, found in wholesome margarine, actually increased deaths among people who already had heart disease.
(11) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Not so X-rated: wholesome Silhouette Underwear fro the 1960s.
(12) The major problems involved in producing safe, wholesome and nutritious shellfish are primarily those of sanitation and adequate preservation of the foods until they finally reach the consumer.
(13) Chemical parameters obtained for 280 samples randomly selected from a variety of ready-to-eat meat products were used to assess nutritional value and wholesomeness.
(14) We're all familiar with the classic noir detective – fresh-faced, clean living and teetotal, with his wholesome family life and penchant for golf and the Sunday roast … oh, wait a minute.
(15) Now, there’s nothing wholesome about that now is there.
(16) In 5-6 or 10-11 weeks the animals were decapitated and the Na,K-ATPase activities in the wholesome erythrocytes, their ghosts, and the cortex and medulla of kidneys were studied.
(17) For optimum health, balanced, wholesome meals are recommended.
(18) That we demand a contest as satisfyingly unwholesome and rancorous as Cain and Abel, not something as nauseatingly wholesome and harmonious as Abel and Cole?
(19) Indirect methods of mechanical injury evaluation, based on weight loss and CO2 emission differences between bruised and wholesome fruits are also briefly discussed.
(20) This organisation sets the rules all football must follow, and claims to itself the wholesome values to which the sport has always aspired.