This is a list of common foods starting with the letter D. Sweet treats including Danish and Doughnut, two types of Dumpling and traditional bush tucker Dugong.
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Foods beginning with D d
| Food Name | Food Description |
| Danish | Puff-style flaky pastry folded around a custard filling. |
| Date | Pitted dates that have been dried. |
| Devon | Processed sandwich meat containing pork, beef, starch, soy protein, cereal, sugar, spices, antioxidants, sodium nitrate/nitrite and water. |
| Dill | Fresh slender stems with fine threadlike leaves, with a distinct sweet smell and taste. |
| Dim sim | Commercially prepared, Chinese-style pastry with an unspecified vegetable and meat (generally beef) filling, purchased frozen, then cooked in the microwave. |
| Dip | A dip typically containing neufchatel cheese, avocado, canola oil, potato paste, spring onion, garlic, lemon juice, and salt. |
| Doughnut | Batter shaped into a ball, deep fried. A small amount of custard is then injected into the centre of the cooked doughnut. |
| Dressing | Salad dressing containing lime juice, fish sauce, sugar, soy sauce, chilli, garlic and a small amount of oil, typically added to Asian style salads. |
| Drink | Beverage commonly prepared using milk, cream, egg, sugar, alcohol (such as brandy or rum) and sweet spices. |
| Dripping | Fat rendered from the meat, muscles and bones of beef. |
| Duck | Raw flesh from all portions of the duck. Skin removed. |
| Dugong | Raw flesh from a large marine mammal with dark brown-grey skin and a large horse shoe-shaped upper lip. Fatty dark red flesh is similar in appearance to red meat such as beef. Caught in the wild. |
| Dumpling | Bread-style bun made from wheat flour, butter and milk, mixed into a dough, from which small balls are rolled and cooked by adding to a mixed dish such as casserole or stew. Dumpling does not contain any fillings or flavourings. |
| Dumpling or wonton | Wheat flour based dough enclosing a chicken filling that has been fried in unspecified oil. |
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