Foods That Start With V

12 foods Food and drink Checked 9 Oct 2026

Here are 12 foods that start with V, 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.

V has about a dozen foods, and vanilla is the star. It appears alone and again in vanilla extract, vanilla pudding and vanilla bean. Vegetable also repeats, as in vegetable soup and vegetable oil.

Vinegar and vinaigrette share a root and make a nice pair for spelling practice. Veal and venison are two meat answers, and vermicelli means very thin strands of pasta or rice noodles. For younger children, vegetable is the easiest V food to say and spell.

Foods starting with V: 12
Best known: vegetable, vanilla
Longest name: vanilla extract

Best-known foods that start with V

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

vegetable
vanilla
vinegar
veal
venison
vinaigrette
vegetable soup
vanilla extract
vanilla pudding
vegetable oil
vermicelli

All foods that start with V

#	Name	What it is
1	vanilla	a flavoring prepared from vanilla beans macerated in alcohol (or imitating vanilla beans)
2	vanilla bean	long bean-like fruit; seeds are used as flavoring
3	vanilla extract	a flavoring prepared from vanilla beans macerated in alcohol (or imitating vanilla beans)
4	vanilla pudding	sweet vanilla flavored custard-like pudding usually thickened with flour rather than eggs
5	veal	meat from a calf
6	vegetable	edible seeds or roots or stems or leaves or bulbs or tubers or nonsweet fruits of any of numerous herbaceous plant
7	vegetable oil	cooking oil made from plants and seeds
8	vegetable soup	soup made with a variety of vegetables
9	venison	meat from a deer used as food
10	vermicelli	very thin strands of pasta or rice noodles
11	vinaigrette	oil and vinegar with mustard and garlic
12	vinegar	sour-tasting liquid produced usually by oxidation of the alcohol in wine or cider and used as a condiment or food...

Short foods with V

veal

Questions people ask

How many foods start with V?

This list has 12 foods starting with V, from well-known ones like vegetable, vanilla, vinegar to rarer kinds.

What foods start with V?

Well-known examples are vegetable, vanilla, vinegar, veal, venison, vinaigrette, vegetable soup, vanilla extract.

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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