Foods That Start With W

26 foods Food and drink Checked 9 Oct 2026

Here are 26 foods that start with W, 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.

W has over two dozen foods, and white is a favorite starter: white rice, white bread, white chocolate, white sauce and white pepper. Wheat also returns in wheat germ and wheat flour, so a couple of base words cover much of the page.

Breakfast fans have waffle and whipped cream, and watermelon is a summer favorite most children know. Wasabi is a green Japanese root with a strong bite, and wild rice is a grain from an aquatic grass of North America. Walnut and wrap add easy everyday choices.

Foods starting with W: 26
Best known: wrap, wheat
Longest name: white chocolate

Best-known foods that start with W

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

wrap
wheat
watermelon
waffle
wafer
white rice
wild rice
wedding cake
white bread
white chocolate
white sauce
won ton
wasabi
white pepper
whipping cream
wheat germ
walnut
whipped cream

All foods that start with W

#	Name	What it is
1	wafer	a small thin crisp cake or cookie
2	waffle	pancake batter baked in a waffle iron
3	walnut	wrinkled edible nut with a hard round shell
4	wasabi	the thick green root of the wasabi plant that the Japanese use in cooking and that tastes like strong horseradish
5	watermelon	large oblong or roundish melon with a hard green rind and sweet watery red or occasionally yellowish pulp
6	wax bean	snap beans with yellow pods
7	wedding cake	a rich cake with two or more tiers and covered with frosting and decorations; served at a wedding reception
8	wheat	grains of common wheat; sometimes cooked whole or cracked as cereal; usually ground into flour
9	wheat flour	flour prepared from wheat
10	wheat germ	embryo of the wheat kernel; removed before milling and eaten as a source of vitamins
11	whey	watery part of milk produced when raw milk sours and coagulates
12	whipped cream	cream beaten until light and fluffy
13	whipping cream	cream that has enough butterfat (30% to 36%) to be whipped
14	white bean	white-seeded bean; usually dried
15	white bread	bread made with finely ground and usually bleached wheat flour
16	white chocolate	a blend of cocoa butter and milk solids and sugar and vanilla
17	white pepper	pepper ground from husked peppercorns
18	white rice	having husk or outer brown layers removed
19	white sauce	milk thickened with a butter and flour roux
20	whiting	flesh of any of a number of slender food fishes especially of Atlantic coasts of North America
21	wild rice	grains of aquatic grass of North America
22	wine vinegar	vinegar made from wine
23	winter melon	the fruit of the winter melon vine; a green melon with pale green to orange flesh that keeps well
24	winter squash	any of various fruits of the gourd family with thick rinds and edible yellow to orange flesh that mature in the fall...
25	won ton	a soup with won ton dumplings
26	wrap	a sandwich in which the filling is rolled up in a soft tortilla

Short foods with W

wrap
wheat
wafer
whey

Questions people ask

How many foods start with W?

This list has 26 foods starting with W, from well-known ones like wrap, wheat, watermelon to rarer kinds.

What foods start with W?

Well-known examples are wrap, wheat, watermelon, waffle, wafer, white rice, wild rice, wedding cake.

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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