Foods That Start With B

86 foods Food and drink Checked 9 Oct 2026

Here are 86 foods that start with B, each with a one-line description so you can tell what it is. The best-known ones come first, then the full list in A to Z order.

B is one of the busiest letters on the food list, with more than eighty entries. Breakfast staples lead the way: bread, butter, bacon, bagel and biscuit. Berries are well represented too, from blueberry to blackberry, and bananas appear in banana bread and banana split.

Many B foods are two-word names built on a base word, such as brown rice, bell pepper and birthday cake. That pattern is handy in categories games, because one familiar word unlocks several answers. Burrito and broccoli are reliable picks for kids who want something easy to spell.

Foods starting with B: 86
Best known: bread, butter
Longest name: bittersweet chocolate

Best-known foods that start with B

The ones most people will recognise, good for school lists, quizzes and games.

bread
butter
beef
bacon
burger
banana
bean
blackberry
bun
broccoli
biscuit
blueberry
burrito
brownie
bagel
brown rice
birthday cake
bell pepper
banana bread
banana split
black bean
bubble gum
baked potato
brussels sprouts
beef jerky

All foods that start with B

#	Name	What it is
1	bacon	back and sides of a hog salted and dried or smoked; usually sliced thin and fried
2	bagel	(Yiddish) glazed yeast-raised doughnut-shaped roll with hard crust
3	baguette	narrow French stick loaf
4	baked egg	egg cooked individually in cream or butter in a small ramekin
5	baked potato	potato that has been cooked by baking it in an oven
6	baking chocolate	pure unsweetened chocolate used in baking and icings and sauces and candy
7	bamboo shoot	edible young shoots of bamboo
8	banana	elongated crescent-shaped yellow fruit with soft sweet flesh
9	banana bread	moist bread containing banana pulp
10	banana split	a banana split lengthwise and topped with scoops of ice cream and sauces and nuts and whipped cream
11	barbados cherry	acid red or yellow cherry-like fruit of a tropical American shrub very rich in vitamin C
12	barbecue	a cookout in which food is cooked over an open fire; especially a whole animal carcass roasted on a spit
13	barbecue sauce	spicy sweet and sour sauce usually based on catsup or chili sauce
14	barley	a grain of barley
15	barley-sugar	a brittle transparent candy made by melting and cooling cane sugar
16	basil	leaves of the common basil; used fresh or dried
17	bass	any of various North American freshwater fish with lean flesh (especially of the genus Micropterus)
18	batter	a liquid or semiliquid mixture, as of flour, eggs, and milk, used in cooking
19	bay leaf	dried leaf of the bay laurel
20	beach plum	small dark purple fruit used especially in jams and pies
21	bean	any of various edible seeds of plants of the family Leguminosae used for food
22	bean dip	a dip made of cooked beans
23	bean sprout	any of various sprouted beans: especially mung beans or lentils or edible soybeans
24	bear claw	almond-flavored yeast-raised pastry shaped in an irregular semicircle resembling a bear's claw
25	beef	meat from an adult domestic bovine
26	beef broth	a stock made with beef
27	beef burrito	a burrito with a beef filling
28	beef jerky	strips of dried beef
29	beef patty	a patty of ground cooked beef
30	beef roast	cut of beef suitable for roasting
31	beef stew	a stew made with beef
32	beef stock	a stock made with beef
33	beef tongue	the tongue of a cow eaten as meat
34	beet	round red root vegetable
35	bell pepper	large bell-shaped sweet pepper in green or red or yellow or orange or black varieties
36	berry	any of numerous small and pulpy edible fruits; used as desserts or in making jams and jellies and preserves
37	birthday cake	decorated cake served at a birthday party
38	biscuit	small round bread leavened with baking-powder or soda
39	bitter chocolate	pure unsweetened chocolate used in baking and icings and sauces and candy
40	bitter orange	highly acidic orange used especially in marmalade
41	bittersweet chocolate	chocolate liquor with cocoa butter and small amounts of sugar and vanilla; lecithin is usually added
42	black bean	black-seeded bean of South America; usually dried
43	black bread	bread made of coarse rye flour
44	black cherry	any of several fruits of cultivated cherry trees that have sweet flesh
45	black olive	olives picked ripe and cured in brine then dried or pickled or preserved canned or in oil
46	black pepper	pepper that is ground from whole peppercorns with husks on
47	black pudding	a black sausage containing pig's blood and other ingredients
48	blackberry	large sweet black or very dark purple edible aggregate fruit of any of various bushes of the genus Rubus
49	blood sausage	a black sausage containing pig's blood and other ingredients
50	blue cheese	cheese containing a blue mold
51	blue crab	Atlantic crab; most common source of fresh crabmeat
52	blueberry	sweet edible dark-blue berries of either low-growing or high-growing blueberry plants
53	blueberry pie	pie containing blueberries and sugar
54	blueberry yogurt	yogurt with sweetened blueberries or blueberry jam
55	boiled egg	egg cooked briefly in the shell in gently boiling water
56	bologna	large smooth-textured smoked sausage of beef and veal and pork
57	bone marrow	very tender and very nutritious tissue from marrowbones
58	bran	food prepared from the husks of cereal grains
59	bran flake	wheat flake including the bran
60	bran muffin	muffin containing bran
61	bread	food made from dough of flour or meal and usually raised with yeast or baking powder and then baked
62	bread sauce	creamy white sauce made with bread instead of flour and seasoned with cloves and onion
63	bread-stick	a crisp stick-shaped roll; often served with soup
64	bream	flesh of any of various saltwater fishes of the family Sparidae or the family Bramidae
65	brisket	a cut of meat from the breast or lower chest especially of beef
66	brittle	caramelized sugar cooled in thin sheets
67	broad bean	shell beans cooked as lima beans
68	broccoli	branched green undeveloped flower heads
69	brook trout	a delicious freshwater food fish
70	broth	a thin soup of meat or fish or vegetable stock
71	brown bread	dark steamed bread made of cornmeal wheat and flour with molasses and soda and milk or water
72	brown butter	clarified butter browned slowly and seasoned with vinegar or lemon juice and capers
73	brown rice	unpolished rice retaining the yellowish-brown outer layer
74	brown sauce	a sauce based on soy sauce
75	brown sugar	unrefined or only partly refined sugar
76	brownie	square or bar of very rich chocolate cake usually with nuts
77	brussels sprouts	the small edible cabbage-like buds growing along a stalk of the brussels sprout plant
78	bubble gum	a kind of chewing gum that can be blown into bubbles
79	buckwheat	grain ground into flour
80	buffalo wing	crisp spicy chicken wings
81	bun	small rounded bread either plain or sweet
82	burger	a sandwich consisting of a fried cake of minced beef served on a bun, often with other ingredients
83	burrito	a flour tortilla folded around a filling
84	butter	an edible emulsion of fat globules made by churning milk or cream; for cooking and table use
85	butter bean	small flat green bean similar to lima beans
86	butter cookie	cookie containing much butter

Short foods with B

bread
beef
bacon
bean
bun
bagel
bass
berry
basil
broth
bran
beet
bream

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How many foods start with B?

This list has 86 foods starting with B, from well-known ones like bread, butter, beef to rarer kinds.

What foods start with B?

Well-known examples are bread, butter, beef, bacon, burger, banana, bean, blackberry.

Source: Princeton WordNet, a public dictionary database, reviewed by our editors to keep only clear, real members of the list. Meanings are short dictionary glosses.

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