Foods That Start With I

9 foods Food and drink Checked 9 Oct 2026

Here are 9 foods that start with I, 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.

I is a short list with fewer than ten foods, and ice is the key word. Ice cream, ice cream cone, ice milk and ice pop all start the same way, and iceberg lettuce joins them with a cooler name than it deserves.

Icing and icing sugar cover the baking side. Two entries break the pattern: idli, a soft steamed rice and lentil cake from South India, and instant noodles, which are ready after adding hot water. Idli is a great answer when a game needs something that is not frozen or sweet.

Foods starting with I: 9
Best known: ice milk, ice cream
Longest name: iceberg lettuce

Best-known foods that start with I

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

ice milk
ice cream
icing sugar
iceberg lettuce
ice cream cone
ice pop
icing
idli
instant noodles

All foods that start with I

#	Name	What it is
1	ice cream	frozen dessert containing cream and sugar and flavoring
2	ice cream cone	crisp wafer cone filled with ice cream
3	ice milk	similar to ice cream but made of milk
4	ice pop	frozen flavored water or juice on a stick
5	iceberg lettuce	lettuce with crisp tightly packed light-green leaves in a firm head
6	icing	sweet sugary coating spread on cakes and cookies
7	icing sugar	finely powdered sugar used to make icing
8	idli	soft steamed South Indian rice and lentil cake
9	instant noodles	dried precooked noodles ready after adding hot water

Short foods with I

icing
idli

Questions people ask

How many foods start with I?

This list has 9 foods starting with I, from well-known ones like ice milk, ice cream, icing sugar to rarer kinds.

What foods start with I?

Well-known examples are ice milk, ice cream, icing sugar, iceberg lettuce, ice cream cone, ice pop, icing, idli.

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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