This is a list of common foods starting with the letter B. The list includes various meats like Bacon, Beef, and Black Pudding. Other food names beginning with B include baked goods like Bread, Biscuits, and Buns.
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Foods beginning with B b
| Food Name | Food Description |
| Babaco | Torpedo shaped fruit with green yellow to golden yellow skin and golden yellow flesh. Imported from New Zealand. Also known as Champagne Fruit. |
| Babyccino | Beverage, commonly described as ‘babyccino’, prepared from heated and aerated cows milk and sprinkled with drinking chocolate. Includes fortified, unfortified, regular fat, reduced fat and skim cows milk. Does not contain coffee, added sugar or flavour. |
| Bacon | Raw, cured, smoked and cooked pork rasher containing salt, sugar, mineral salts, antioxidant, nitrite and water. |
| Bacon burger | Bacon rasher, with cheese, with or without sauce, in a bread roll |
| Bagel | A ring of baked yeast dough with a chewy centre and a crusty outside. It is typically 8-10cm in diameter. Usually poached in water or steamed before being baked. Contains added folic acid and iodised salt. Ready to eat. |
| Baked beans | Navy/haricot beans in bbq sauce, canned. Contains added salt, sugar, food acids, maize thickener and flavour. |
| Baking powder | Fine white powder used to chemically leaven baked goods such as cakes. Composed of 50% cream of tartar, 25% baking soda, and 25% starch. |
| Baking soda (bicarbonate) | Fine white powder used to chemically leaven baked goods such as cakes. |
| Baklava | Sweet slice made with layers of filo pastry and nuts then soaked in a honey syrup. |
| Bamboo shoot | Tender young shoots of an edible bamboo plant, cream in colour with a fibrous texture. Sliced and canned in water. Heated in own juice, then drained. |
| Banana | Australian grown, long fruit with thick yellow skin and cream-coloured flesh. |
| Banana chip | Dried, thinly sliced banana product that is sometimes fried in oil and coated with a sugary film. |
| Banana split | A dessert commonly made from fresh banana split lengthwise and topped with ice cream, whipped cream, flavoured topping and nuts. |
| Bar | Snack style product whose major ingredients include rolled oats, sugars and vegetable oils, and generally have added dried fruits (typically apricot, sultana and apple). |
| Bar or biscuit | Commercial bar or biscuit type product formulated to be high in protein. |
| Barley | Grain that has had the bran removed, then is steamed and polished. Uncooked. |
| BarleyMax | Grain that has been produced to be high in fibre. It has had the bran removed, then is steamed and polished. Uncooked. |
| Barramundi | Uncooked barramundi, produced under aquaculture and imported into Australia, with or without skin. |
| Basil | Large, green, oval-shaped, pointed leaves, with a distinct sweet smell and taste. Dried. |
| Bassa (basa) | Uncooked bassa (basa), produced by aquaculture and imported into Australia, with or without skin. |
| Batter for coating food | All purpose commercial batter made from plain flour, baking powder, water and salt. Uncooked. |
| Bean | Small white bean with smooth texture and nutty flavour. Beans boiled and canned in brine, then drained. |
| Bean paste | A jam like conserve made from mashed boiled red beans and sugar, often used as an ingredient in Asian cuisine. |
| Beef | Thick dark brown concentrated beef extract paste rich in iron, niacin and folate. Typically added to soups and stews for flavouring or to hot water for a salty beverage. |
| Beer | Alcoholic beverage characterised by the presence of hops or preparations of hops, prepared by the yeast fermentation of an aqueous extract of malted or unmalted cereals (usually barley), using warm temperature fermentation. Greater than or equal to 5% v/v alcohol. |
| Beetroot | Rounded root vegetable with dark brown-purple skin and stems and purple flesh. Edible portion comprises flesh only. |
| Beetroot crisps or chips | Snack product consisting of thinly sliced beetroot, deep fried in vegetable oil and salted. |
| Berliner | Processed delicatessen meat commonly used as a sandwich topping. Contains pork, water, salt, sodium phosphate, sugar, sodium erythorbate, spices, sodium nitrite and smoked. |
| Beta-carotene | This food was developed to use as a recipe ingredient for foods containing added beta-carotene, consumed during the Australian Health Survey. |
| Beverage | Beverage prepared by mixing cocoa powder with cows milk. |
| Beverage base | Unfortified dry beverage base used to prepare a banana flavoured beverage with the addition of milk. Typical ingredients include sugar, maltodextrin, flavour and colours (including riboflavin). Nesquik brand is an example of such a product. |
| Biscuit | Commercially prepared, round or square, savoury dry cake, made from puffed corn and salted. |
| Biscuit filling | Sweet chocolate flavoured filling often used in a commercial sandwich-style biscuit such as Chocolate Cream Oreo and Kingston biscuits. Ingredients include vegetable oil, milk solids and sugar. |
| Biscuit mix | Commercially prepared dry mix used to prepare sweet biscuits in the home with the addition of other ingredients. Ingredients include wheat flour, sugar, salt, egg powder, glucose, flavour, raising agent 450 and emulsifier 481. |
| Bitters | A high-alcohol spirit containing spices and flavours such as gentian, and some sugar typically added to beverages in small amounts. |
| Black pudding | Sausage with major ingredients of meat, blood, cereal. |
| Blackberry | Round fruit characterised by a collection of tiny, shiny, black drupelets around a central white core. |
| Blue grenadier (hoki) | Uncooked blue grenadier (hoki) with or without skin. |
| Blueberry | Small, deep blue berry with whitish waxy bloom. |
| Blue-eye trevalla | Uncooked blue eye trevalla, blue eye code, warehou or bigeye, with or without skin. |
| Bok choy or choy sum | Asian vegetable with white to pale green coloured stems, and rounded, dark-green leaves. Uncooked. |
| Braised steak & onions | Canned product commonly containing beef steak, onion, cereal, tomato, salt, spice and water. |
| Brandy | Alcoholic beverage obtained from the distillation of wine, or fermented preparations of grapes or grape products. |
| Brawn | Jellied meat mixture, also known as presswurst. Commonly contains pork, but may also contain chicken. Other ingredients include vinegar, spices, salt, thickener (gelatine), cereal, soy protein, sugars, antioxidant, mineral salts, sodium nitrate and water. |
| Bread | A flat disc of Indian-style bread, generally unleavened, made from wholemeal wheat flour without added fat during mixing or baking. Contains added folic acid. Ready to eat. |
| Bread or bread roll | Commercial yeast leavened, thin, soft-crusted white bread typically prepared from white flour, olive oil, water, yeast, sugar, salt and sesame seeds. Contains added folic acid and iodised salt. Ready to eat. |
| Breadcrumbs | Crisp crumbs crushed from white bread which has been dried and packaged before sale. Contains added folic acid and iodised salt. |
| Breakfast cereal | Typically flavoured, precooked dried and processed grains to which milk is usually added. |
| Bream | A common fish. |
| Broccoli | Deep green flower clusters which form the head, and pale green stems. |
| Broccolini | Deep green flower clusters which form the head, and pale green stems. |
| Brussels sprout | Layers of small green leaves with white stems wrapped around a white base. |
| Buckwheat groats | Hulled, crushed, roasted kernels, used in a similar manner to rice. |
| Buffalo | Raw meat from the forequarter of a pasture-fed swamp buffalo. |
| Bulgur (burghul | A quick-cooking form of whole wheat that has been cleaned, parboiled, dried, ground into particles and sifted into distinct sizes (fine, medium and course grinds). |
| Bun | Commercially prepared sweet bun made from yeasted wheat flour, sugar, water, oil and salt. |
| Butter | A product derived exclusively from milk and products obtained from milk, principally in the form of an emulsion of the type water-in-oil, containing no less than 80% milkfat. Contains added salt. |
| Buttermilk | Reduced fat milk which has been fermented by the deliberate addition of bacterial cultures. Product remains a liquid and does not have flavours or other foods added to it. |
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