Foods That Start With L

30 foods Food and drink Checked 9 Oct 2026

Here are 30 foods that start with L, 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.

About thirty foods start with L, and citrus is a running theme. Lemon and lime appear on their own and again in lemon curd, lemon drop and lemon peel. Seafood also stands out, with lobster, lobster tail and lox, a lightly smoked salmon.

Pasta fans get lasagna and linguine. Lentil and lima bean cover the legume side, and leek and lettuce give two easy vegetables. Lollipop and licorice are the sweets most children will reach for. Lychee, a small fruit with rough red skin and white flesh, is a less common answer worth remembering.

Foods starting with L: 30
Best known: liver, lemon
Longest name: lemon extract

Best-known foods that start with L

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

liver
lemon
lamb
lime
lobster
lettuce
lollipop
lunch meat
lasagna
layer cake
leek
licorice
lentil
lox
lemon drop
lamb chop
lobster tail
lima bean
lemon curd
linguine
lychee

All foods that start with L

#	Name	What it is
1	lake trout	flesh of large trout of northern lakes
2	lamb	the flesh of a young domestic sheep eaten as food
3	lamb chop	chop cut from a lamb
4	lamb curry	curry made with lamb
5	lasagna	baked dish of layers of lasagna pasta with sauce and cheese and meat or vegetables
6	layer cake	cake having layers held together by a sweet filling and usually covered with frosting
7	leaf lettuce	lettuce with loosely curled leaves that do not form a compact head
8	leek	related to onions; white cylindrical bulb and flat dark-green leaves
9	lemon	yellow oval fruit with juicy acidic flesh
10	lemon balm	lemony leaves used for a tisane or in soups or fruit punches
11	lemon curd	thick sweet spread made from lemons, eggs and butter
12	lemon drop	a hard candy with lemon flavor and a yellow color and (usually) the shape of a lemon
13	lemon extract	a flavoring made from (or imitating) lemons
14	lemon peel	strips of lemon peel cooked in sugar and coated with sugar
15	lentil	round flat seed of the lentil plant used for food
16	lettuce	leaves of any of various plants of Lactuca sativa
17	licorice	a black candy flavored with the dried root of the licorice plant
18	light cream	cream that has at least 18% butterfat
19	lima bean	broad flat beans simmered gently; never eaten raw
20	lime	the green acidic fruit of any of various lime trees
21	linguine	long flat thin pasta noodles
22	liver	liver of an animal used as meat
23	liver sausage	sausage containing ground liver
24	lobster	flesh of a lobster
25	lobster tail	lobster tail meat; usually from spiny rock lobsters
26	lollipop	ice cream or water ice on a small wooden stick
27	lox	brine-cured salmon that is lightly smoked
28	lump sugar	refined sugar molded into rectangular shapes convenient as single servings
29	lunch meat	any of various sausages or molded loaf meats sliced and served cold
30	lychee	small sweet fruit with rough red skin and white flesh

Short foods with L

liver
lemon
lamb
lime
leek
lox

Questions people ask

How many foods start with L?

This list has 30 foods starting with L, from well-known ones like liver, lemon, lamb to rarer kinds.

What foods start with L?

Well-known examples are liver, lemon, lamb, lime, lobster, lettuce, lollipop, lunch meat.

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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