Foods That Start With S

90 foods Food and drink Checked 9 Oct 2026

Here are 90 foods that start with S, 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.

S is the second richest food letter, close to a hundred entries. Kitchen basics like sugar and salt sit beside meal words like salad, soup and sandwich. Seafood fans get salmon, shrimp and sardine, and sushi brings rice and fish wrapped in seaweed.

Sweet answers are easy too: strawberry, sundae, scone and sorbet. Several entries come in pairs that start with "s" twice, such as string cheese and spring roll, which are fun tongue twisters for young readers. Spaghetti, spinach and sweet potato are reliable spelling-practice words.

Foods starting with S: 90
Best known: sugar, salt
Longest name: submarine sandwich

Best-known foods that start with S

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

sugar
salt
salad
soup
sandwich
salmon
steak
sausage
shrimp
strawberry
sushi
spaghetti
salsa
spinach
spring roll
string cheese
sundae
scone
sweet corn
sardine
sorbet
sweet potato
sour cream
soy sauce
scrambled eggs

All foods that start with S

#	Name	What it is
1	saffron	dried pungent stigmas of the Old World saffron crocus
2	sage	aromatic fresh or dried grey-green leaves used widely as seasoning for meats and fowl and game etc
3	salad	food mixtures either arranged on a plate or tossed and served with a moist dressing
4	salad dressing	savory dressings for salads
5	salami	highly seasoned fatty sausage of pork and beef usually dried
6	salmon	flesh of any of various marine or freshwater fish of the family Salmonidae
7	salsa	spicy sauce of tomatoes and onions and chili peppers to accompany Mexican foods
8	salt	white crystalline form of especially sodium chloride used to season and preserve food
9	salt cod	codfish preserved in salt; must be desalted and flaked by soaking in water and pounding; used in e.g. codfish cakes
10	salt pork	fat from the back and sides and belly of a hog carcass cured with salt
11	sandwich	two (or more) slices of bread with a filling between them
12	sardine	small fatty fish usually canned
13	sashimi	very thinly sliced raw fish
14	sauce	flavorful relish or dressing or topping served as an accompaniment to food
15	sauerkraut	shredded cabbage fermented in brine
16	sausage	highly seasoned minced meat stuffed in casings
17	sausage pizza	tomato and cheese pizza with sausage
18	sausage roll	sausage meat rolled and baked in pastry
19	scallop	edible muscle of mollusks having fan-shaped shells; served broiled or poached or in salads or cream sauces
20	scone	small biscuit (rich with cream and eggs) cut into diamonds or sticks and baked in an oven or (especially originally) on...
21	scrambled eggs	eggs beaten and cooked to a soft firm consistency while stirring
22	sea bass	the lean flesh of a saltwater fish of the family Serranidae
23	seafood	edible fish (broadly including freshwater fish) or shellfish or roe etc
24	sesame seed	small oval seeds of the sesame plant
25	shad	bony flesh of herring-like fish usually caught during their migration to fresh water for spawning
26	shellfish	meat of edible aquatic invertebrate with a shell (especially a mollusk or crustacean)
27	short ribs	cut of beef containing rib ends near the sternum
28	shrimp	any of various edible decapod crustaceans
29	shrimp cocktail	a cocktail of cold cooked shrimp and a sauce
30	smelt	small cold-water silvery fish; migrate between salt and fresh water
31	smoked salmon	salmon cured by smoking
32	snail	edible terrestrial snail usually served in the shell with a sauce of melted butter and garlic
33	snap bean	tender green beans without strings that easily snap into sections
34	snapper	flesh of any of various important food fishes of warm seas
35	snow pea	green peas with flat edible pods
36	soda cracker	unsweetened cracker leavened slightly with soda and cream of tartar
37	sole	lean flesh of any of several flatfish
38	sorbet	an ice containing no milk but having a mushy consistency; usually made from fruit juice
39	soup	liquid food especially of meat or fish or vegetable stock often containing pieces of solid food
40	sour cherry	acid cherries used for pies and preserves
41	sour cream	artificially soured light cream
42	soy sauce	thin sauce made of fermented soy beans
43	soybean	the most highly proteinaceous vegetable known
44	spaghetti	spaghetti served with a tomato sauce
45	spaghetti sauce	any of numerous sauces for spaghetti or other kinds of pasta
46	spaghetti squash	medium-sized oval squash with flesh in the form of strings that resemble spaghetti
47	spice cake	cake flavored with spices
48	spinach	dark green leaves; eaten cooked or raw in salads
49	split-pea	dried hulled pea; used in soup
50	sponge cake	a light porous cake made with eggs and flour and sugar without shortening
51	spring onion	a young onion before the bulb has enlarged; eaten in salads
52	spring roll	minced vegetables and meat wrapped in a pancake and fried
53	sprinkles	bits of sweet chocolate used as a topping on e.g. ice cream
54	spud	an edible tuber native to South America; a staple food of Ireland
55	squash	edible fruit of a squash plant; eaten as a vegetable
56	squid	(Italian cuisine) squid prepared as food
57	star fruit	deeply ridged yellow-brown tropical fruit; used raw as a vegetable or in salad or when fully ripe as a dessert
58	steak	a slice of meat cut from the fleshy part of an animal or large fish
59	steak sauce	pungent bottled sauce for steak
60	steamed pudding	a pudding cooked by steaming
61	stew	food prepared by stewing especially meat or fish with vegetables
62	sticky bun	rolled dough spread with sugar and nuts then sliced and baked in muffin tins with honey or sugar and butter in the...
63	stock	liquid in which meat and vegetables are simmered; used as a basis for e.g. soups or sauces
64	stock cube	a cube of dehydrated stock
65	stone crab	pale flesh with delicate texture and flavor; found in Florida but now very rare
66	strawberry	sweet fleshy red fruit
67	strawberry jam	made with strawberries
68	string bean	green beans with strings that must be removed
69	string cheese	cheese formed in long strings twisted together
70	strip steak	steak from upper part of the short loin
71	striped bass	caught along the Atlantic coast of the United States
72	stuffed cabbage	parboiled head of cabbage scooped out and filled with a hash of chopped e.g. beef or ham and baked
73	stuffed mushroom	mushrooms stuffed with any of numerous mixtures of e.g. meats or nuts or seafood or spinach
74	stuffed peppers	parboiled green peppers stuffed usually with rice and meat and baked briefly
75	stuffed tomato	tomato cases filled with various salad mixtures and served cold
76	stuffing	a mixture of seasoned ingredients used to stuff meats and vegetables
77	submarine sandwich	a large sandwich made of a long crusty roll split lengthwise and filled with meats and cheese (and tomato and onion and...
78	sugar	a white crystalline carbohydrate used as a sweetener and preservative
79	sugar cookie	cookies sprinkled with granulated sugar
80	summer squash	any of various fruits of the gourd family that mature during the summer
81	sundae	ice cream served with a topping
82	sushi	rice (with raw fish) wrapped in seaweed
83	sweet cherry	any of several fruits of cultivated cherry trees that have sweet flesh
84	sweet corn	corn that can be eaten as a vegetable while still young and soft
85	sweet pepper	large mild crisp thick-walled capsicum peppers usually bell-shaped or somewhat oblong; commonly used in salads
86	sweet pickle	pickle cured in brine and preserved in sugar and vinegar
87	sweet potato	the edible tuberous root of the sweet potato vine which is grown widely in warm regions of the United States
88	sweet roll	any of numerous yeast-raised sweet rolls with our without raisins or nuts or spices or a glaze
89	swordfish	flesh of swordfish usually served as steaks
90	syrup	a thick sweet sticky liquid

Short foods with S

sugar
salt
salad
soup
steak
sushi
salsa
scone
stock
sauce
sole
sage
syrup
snail
stew
squid
smelt
shad
spud

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How many foods start with S?

This list has 90 foods starting with S, from well-known ones like sugar, salt, salad to rarer kinds.

What foods start with S?

Well-known examples are sugar, salt, salad, soup, sandwich, salmon, steak, sausage.

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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