Foods That Start With N

11 foods Food and drink Checked 9 Oct 2026

Here are 11 foods that start with N, 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.

N has a small, tidy list of about a dozen foods. Noodle and nut are the simplest, and nut shows up again in nut bread and nut butter. Nutmeg is a spice grated from a hard seed, and nectarine is a smooth-skinned fruit similar to a peach.

Some N foods come from other cuisines. Nan is a bread baked in a clay oven in India, nori is the dried seaweed used to wrap sushi, and nacho is a tortilla chip topped with cheese. Nougat, a chewy candy with nuts and honey, rounds out the sweet side.

Foods starting with N: 11
Best known: nan, noodle
Longest name: nut butter

Best-known foods that start with N

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

nan
noodle
nutmeg
nacho
nut bread
nut butter
navy bean
nectarine
nori
nougat
nut

All foods that start with N

#	Name	What it is
1	nacho	a tortilla chip topped with cheese and chili-pepper and broiled
2	nan	leavened bread baked in a clay oven in India; usually shaped like a teardrop
3	navy bean	white-seeded bean; usually dried
4	nectarine	smooth-skinned fruit similar to a peach
5	noodle	a ribbonlike strip of pasta
6	nori	dried seaweed sheets used to wrap sushi
7	nougat	chewy candy made of sugar, honey and nuts
8	nut	hard-shelled seed or fruit with an edible kernel
9	nut bread	bread containing chopped nuts
10	nut butter	ground nuts blended with a little butter
11	nutmeg	hard aromatic seed of the nutmeg tree used as spice when grated or ground

Short foods with N

nan
nacho
nori
nut

Questions people ask

How many foods start with N?

This list has 11 foods starting with N, from well-known ones like nan, noodle, nutmeg to rarer kinds.

What foods start with N?

Well-known examples are nan, noodle, nutmeg, nacho, nut bread, nut butter, navy bean, nectarine.

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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