Foods That Start With E

12 foods Food and drink Checked 9 Oct 2026

Here are 12 foods that start with E, 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.

Eggs dominate the E list. Egg, egg roll, egg white, egg noodle and egg salad together make up a large share of the dozen entries, and eggplant borrows the same word because of its egg-like shape.

Beyond eggs, the letter opens up to dishes from around the world. Empanada and enchilada are savory filled foods, edamame are young soybeans steamed in the pod, and escargot means cooked snails. Endive, a slightly bitter salad leaf, is a fine pick when a game calls for something unusual.

Foods starting with E: 12
Best known: egg, eel
Longest name: egg noodle

Best-known foods that start with E

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

egg
eel
eggplant
egg roll
egg white
egg noodle
edamame
egg salad
empanada
enchilada
endive
escargot

All foods that start with E

#	Name	What it is
1	edamame	young green soybeans served steamed in the pod
2	eel	the fatty flesh of eel
3	egg	oval reproductive body of a fowl (especially a hen) used as food
4	egg noodle	narrow strip of pasta dough made with eggs
5	egg roll	minced vegetables and meat wrapped in a pancake and fried
6	egg salad	chopped boiled eggs mixed with mayonnaise
7	egg white	the white part of an egg
8	eggplant	egg-shaped vegetable having a shiny skin typically dark purple but occasionally white or yellow
9	empanada	baked or fried pastry turnover with a savory filling
10	enchilada	rolled tortilla filled with meat or cheese and sauce
11	endive	leafy salad vegetable with a slightly bitter taste
12	escargot	cooked snails, usually served with garlic butter

Short foods with E

Questions people ask

How many foods start with E?

This list has 12 foods starting with E, from well-known ones like egg, eel, eggplant to rarer kinds.

What foods start with E?

Well-known examples are egg, eel, eggplant, egg roll, egg white, egg noodle, edamame, egg salad.

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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