Foods That Start With K

14 foods Food and drink Checked 9 Oct 2026

Here are 14 foods that start with K, 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.

K offers fourteen foods with a nice mix of everyday and adventurous. Ketchup and kale are easy for most kids, and kiwi is a fuzzy brown fruit with green flesh. Kebab means cubes of meat cooked on a skewer.

Several K foods come with "king" or "key" in front: king salmon, king crab, key lime and key lime pie. Kimchi is a spicy fermented Korean cabbage dish, kohlrabi is a round crunchy vegetable related to cabbage, and kumquat is a small citrus you can eat peel and all. These score well in games where rare answers earn more points.

Foods starting with K: 14
Best known: ketchup, kale
Longest name: key lime pie

Best-known foods that start with K

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

ketchup
kale
kiwi
kebab
king salmon
kidney bean
key lime
king crab
kaiser roll
kettle corn
key lime pie
kimchi
kohlrabi
kumquat

All foods that start with K

#	Name	What it is
1	kaiser roll	rounded raised poppy-seed roll made of a square piece of dough by folding the corners in to the center
2	kale	coarse curly-leafed cabbage
3	kebab	cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables
4	ketchup	thick spicy sauce made from tomatoes
5	kettle corn	popcorn made sweet and salty in a kettle
6	key lime	small yellow-green limes of southern Florida
7	key lime pie	tart pie made with lime juice and condensed milk
8	kidney bean	large dark red bean; usually dried
9	kimchi	spicy fermented Korean cabbage dish
10	king crab	meat of large cold-water crab; mainly leg meat
11	king salmon	pink or white flesh of large Pacific salmon
12	kiwi	fuzzy brown egg-shaped fruit with slightly tart green flesh
13	kohlrabi	round crunchy vegetable related to cabbage
14	kumquat	tiny oval citrus fruit eaten with the peel

Short foods with K

kale
kiwi
kebab

Questions people ask

How many foods start with K?

This list has 14 foods starting with K, from well-known ones like ketchup, kale, kiwi to rarer kinds.

What foods start with K?

Well-known examples are ketchup, kale, kiwi, kebab, king salmon, kidney bean, key lime, king crab.

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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