Foods That Start With M

44 foods Food and drink Checked 9 Oct 2026

Here are 44 foods that start with M, 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.

With over forty entries, M is a strong letter for food games. Milk, meat and mint open the list, and mango, melon and mushroom are familiar to almost everyone. Breakfast and baking show up through muffin, molasses and marmalade.

Comfort food runs deep here: macaroni, meatball, meatloaf and meat pie. Sweet answers include marshmallow, mousse and milk chocolate. Mozzarella is a mild white Italian cheese, and mackerel and mussel bring seafood to the page. Mayonnaise is a classic spelling-bee word with its double N.

Foods starting with M: 44
Best known: milk, meat
Longest name: mandarin orange

Best-known foods that start with M

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

milk
meat
mint
mustard
mushroom
mango
muffin
melon
mayonnaise
marshmallow
macaroni
mozzarella
mackerel
molasses
milk chocolate
mousse
marmalade
meatball
meatloaf
margarine
mussel
meat pie
maple syrup
mandarin orange
mashed potato

All foods that start with M

#	Name	What it is
1	macaroni	pasta in the form of slender tubes
2	macaroni salad	having macaroni as the base
3	mace	spice made from the dried fleshy covering of the nutmeg seed
4	mackerel	flesh of very important usually small (to 18 in) fatty Atlantic fish
5	mandarin	a somewhat flat reddish-orange loose skinned citrus of China
6	mandarin orange	a somewhat flat reddish-orange loose skinned citrus of China
7	mango	large oval tropical fruit having smooth skin, juicy aromatic pulp, and a large hairy seed
8	maple syrup	made by concentrating sap from sugar maples
9	marble cake	made of light and dark batter very lightly blended
10	margarine	a spread made chiefly from vegetable oils and used as a substitute for butter
11	marinade	mixtures of vinegar or wine and oil with various spices and seasonings; used for soaking foods before cooking
12	marmalade	a preserve made of the pulp and rind of citrus fruits
13	marshmallow	spongy confection made of gelatin and sugar and corn syrup and dusted with powdered sugar
14	mashed potato	potato that has been peeled and boiled and then mashed
15	mayonnaise	egg yolks and oil and vinegar
16	meat	the flesh of animals (including fishes and birds and snails) used as food
17	meat pie	pie made with meat or fowl enclosed in pastry or covered with pastry or biscuit dough
18	meatball	ground meat formed into a ball and fried or simmered in broth
19	meatloaf	a baked loaf of ground meat
20	melon	any of numerous fruits of the gourd family having a hard rind and sweet juicy flesh
21	melon ball	a bite of melon cut as a sphere
22	milk	any of several nutritive milklike liquids
23	milk chocolate	chocolate made from chocolate liquor with sugar and cocoa butter and powdered milk solids and vanilla and (usually)...
24	millet	small seed of any of various annual cereal grasses especially Setaria italica
25	mint	the leaves of a mint plant used fresh or candied
26	mint candy	a candy that is flavored with a mint oil
27	mint sauce	sweetened diluted vinegar with chopped mint leaves
28	minute steak	a thin steak that can be cooked quickly
29	miso	a thick paste made from fermented soybeans and barley or rice malt; used in Japanese cooking to make soups or sauces
30	mocha	a flavoring made from coffee mixed with chocolate
31	molasses	thick dark syrup produced by boiling down juice from sugar cane; especially during sugar refining
32	mole	spicy sauce often containing chocolate
33	mousse	a rich, frothy, creamy dessert made with whipped egg whites and heavy cream
34	mozzarella	mild white Italian cheese
35	muffin	a sweet quick bread baked in a cup-shaped pan
36	mulberry	sweet usually dark purple blackberry-like fruit of any of several mulberry trees of the genus Morus
37	mullet	highly valued lean flesh of marine or freshwater mullet
38	mushroom	fleshy body of any of numerous edible fungi
39	mushroom sauce	brown sauce and sauteed mushrooms
40	mussel	black marine bivalves usually steamed in wine
41	mustard	leaves eaten as cooked greens
42	mustard greens	leaves eaten as cooked greens
43	mustard seed	black or white seeds ground to make mustard pastes or powders
44	mutton	meat from a mature domestic sheep

Short foods with M

milk
meat
mint
mango
melon
mole
mace
mocha
miso

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How many foods start with M?

This list has 44 foods starting with M, from well-known ones like milk, meat, mint to rarer kinds.

What foods start with M?

Well-known examples are milk, meat, mint, mustard, mushroom, mango, muffin, melon.

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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