Foods That Start With T

29 foods Food and drink Checked 9 Oct 2026

Here are 29 foods that start with T, 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.

T has nearly thirty foods, with a strong showing from Mexican cooking: taco, tortilla and tamale, a corn dough steamed in a husk. Tomato leads its own small family, including tomato paste and tomato sauce.

Sweet T answers include toffee, taffy, trifle and tiramisu, an Italian dessert with coffee-soaked ladyfingers. Turkey, tuna and trout give three easy proteins, and tofu, made from soybean milk, adds a plant-based option. Tangerine and turnip round out the fruit and vegetable choices.

Foods starting with T: 29
Best known: turkey, toast
Longest name: tomato paste

Best-known foods that start with T

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

turkey
toast
tomato
trout
turnover
taco
tuna
tofu
thyme
tortilla
tangerine
trifle
toffee
turnip
taffy
tapioca
tomato paste
tomato sauce
tuna salad
tamale
tart
tiramisu
trail mix

All foods that start with T

#	Name	What it is
1	taco	a tortilla rolled cupped around a filling
2	taco sauce	spicy tomato-based sauce for tacos
3	taffy	chewy candy of sugar or syrup boiled until thick and pulled until glossy
4	tamale	corn dough with filling steamed in a corn husk
5	tangerine	any of various deep orange mandarins grown in the United States and southern Africa
6	tapioca	granular preparation of cassava starch used to thicken especially puddings
7	taro	tropical starchy tuberous root
8	tart	open pastry case with a sweet or savory filling
9	thyme	leaves can be used as seasoning for almost any meat and stews and stuffings and vegetables
10	tiramisu	Italian dessert of coffee-soaked ladyfingers and cream
11	toast	slices of bread that have been toasted
12	toffee	caramelized sugar cooled in thin sheets
13	tofu	cheeselike food made of curdled soybean milk
14	tomato	mildly acid red or yellow pulpy fruit eaten as a vegetable
15	tomato paste	thick concentrated tomato puree
16	tomato sauce	sauce made with a puree of tomatoes (or strained tomatoes) with savory vegetables and other seasonings
17	tortilla	thin unleavened pancake made from cornmeal or wheat flour
18	tossed salad	salad tossed with a dressing
19	trail mix	snack mix of nuts, seeds and dried fruit
20	trifle	a cold pudding made of layers of sponge cake spread with fruit or jelly; may be decorated with nuts, cream, or chocolate
21	tripe	lining of the stomach of a ruminant (especially a bovine) used as food
22	trout	flesh of any of several primarily freshwater game and food fishes
23	truffle	edible subterranean fungus of the genus Tuber
24	tuna	important warm-water fatty fish of the genus Thunnus of the family Scombridae; usually served as steaks
25	tuna salad	salad composed primarily of chopped canned tuna fish
26	turkey	flesh of large domesticated fowl usually roasted
27	turmeric	ground dried rhizome of the turmeric plant used as seasoning
28	turnip	root of any of several members of the mustard family
29	turnover	a dish made by folding a piece of pastry over a filling

Short foods with T

toast
trout
taco
tuna
tofu
thyme
taffy
tart
taro
tripe

Questions people ask

How many foods start with T?

This list has 29 foods starting with T, from well-known ones like turkey, toast, tomato to rarer kinds.

What foods start with T?

Well-known examples are turkey, toast, tomato, trout, turnover, taco, tuna, tofu.

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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