Foods That Start With Y

8 foods Food and drink Checked 9 Oct 2026

Here are 8 foods that start with Y, each with a one-line description so you can tell what it is. They are listed below with what each one is.

Y has a handful of foods, eight in all. Yogurt, a food made from curdled milk, is the most familiar, followed by yam and yolk, the yellow part of an egg. Yeast is the tiny fungus that makes bread rise.

Yellow helps here too, with yellow squash and yellow bean. Yuzu is a small sour citrus fruit from East Asia, and yak butter comes from the milk of yaks. These last two are great surprise answers for older students who want to stand out in a quiz.

Foods starting with Y: 8
Best known: yogurt, yam
Longest name: yellow squash

All foods that start with Y

#	Name	What it is
1	yak butter	butter made from yaks' milk
2	yam	sweet potato with deep orange flesh that remains moist when baked
3	yeast	tiny fungus used to make bread rise
4	yellow bean	snap beans with yellow pods
5	yellow squash	squash having yellow skin and yellowish flesh and usually elongated neck
6	yogurt	a custard-like food made from curdled milk
7	yolk	the yellow spherical part of an egg that is surrounded by the albumen
8	yuzu	small sour East Asian citrus fruit

Questions people ask

How many foods start with Y?

This list has 8 foods starting with Y, from well-known ones like yogurt, yam, yolk to rarer kinds.

What foods start with Y?

Well-known examples are yogurt, yam, yolk, yellow squash, yeast, yuzu.

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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