Foods That Start With D

24 foods Food and drink Checked 9 Oct 2026

Here are 24 foods that start with D, 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.

D brings about two dozen foods, and dessert itself is one of them. Doughnut, dumpling, danish pastry and dark chocolate cover the sweet side, while dill pickle, duck and dip fill out the savory side.

Some of the best answers come from far away. Dim sum means small Chinese snacks served in baskets, dragon fruit is a bright pink cactus fruit, and durian is a big spiky fruit whose smell is famously powerful. Any of the three can win a quiz round where everyone else says doughnut.

Foods starting with D: 24
Best known: date, duck
Longest name: dark chocolate

Best-known foods that start with D

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

date
duck
dressing
dip
dough
dessert
doughnut
dill
dark chocolate
dumpling
dried fruit
danish pastry
dill pickle
dim sum
dragon fruit
durian

All foods that start with D

#	Name	What it is
1	dahl	small highly nutritious seed of the tropical pigeon-pea plant
2	danish pastry	light sweet yeast-raised roll usually filled with fruits or cheese
3	dark chocolate	chocolate liquor with cocoa butter and small amounts of sugar and vanilla; lecithin is usually added
4	date	sweet edible fruit of the date palm with a single long woody seed
5	date bar	fruit bar containing chopped dates
6	date bread	bread containing chopped dates
7	dessert	a dish served as the last course of a meal
8	dill	aromatic threadlike foliage of the dill plant used as seasoning
9	dill pickle	pickle preserved in brine or vinegar flavored with dill seed
10	dill seed	seed of the dill plant used as seasoning
11	dim sum	small Chinese dumplings and snacks served in baskets
12	dip	tasty mixture or liquid into which bite-sized foods are dipped
13	divinity fudge	white creamy fudge made with egg whites
14	double cream	fresh soft French cheese containing at least 60% fat
15	dough	a flour mixture stiff enough to knead or roll
16	doughnut	a small ring-shaped friedcake
17	dragon fruit	bright pink cactus fruit with speckled white flesh
18	dressing	a mixture of seasoned ingredients used to stuff meats and vegetables
19	dried fruit	fruit preserved by drying
20	drop biscuit	biscuit made from dough with enough milk that it can be dropped from a spoon
21	duck	flesh of a duck (domestic or wild)
22	duck sauce	a thick sweet and pungent Chinese condiment
23	dumpling	dessert made by baking fruit wrapped in pastry
24	durian	large spiky tropical fruit with a strong smell

Short foods with D

date
duck
dip
dough
dill
dahl

Questions people ask

How many foods start with D?

This list has 24 foods starting with D, from well-known ones like date, duck, dressing to rarer kinds.

What foods start with D?

Well-known examples are date, duck, dressing, dip, dough, dessert, doughnut, dill.

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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