Foods that start with A
35 foods, sorted from the ones everyone says first to the ones almost nobody thinks of. 5 of them are in the Rare tier or rarer.
- 4 Plankton
- 20 Too Clever
- 6 Schooler
- 5 Rare
- 0 Deep Cut
- 0 One in a Krillion
Rare but real
Names that are easy to defend and hard to guess. Good when you need an answer no one else will have.
- Anchovy butter
- Butter blended with mashed anchovies.
- Apricot bar
- Fruit bar containing apricot jam.
- Aitchbone
- A cut of beef including the H-shaped rump bone.
- Ash cake
- Corn bread wrapped in cabbage leaves and baked in hot ashes (southern).
- Allemande
- Egg-thickened veloute.
- Anadama bread
- A yeast-raised bread made of white flour and cornmeal and molasses.
All 35 foods that start with A
Sorted by search interest, most familiar first. The last column is average monthly US Google searches.
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| Name | What it is | Group | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tiny fishes usually canned or salted. | Fish & seafood | Plankton | 135K | |
| also Aioli sauce, Garlic sauce | Garlic mayonnaise. | Sauces & condiments | Plankton | 110K |
| Pie (with a top crust) containing sliced apples and sugar. | Breads & pastries | Plankton | 110K | |
| Savory jelly based on fish or meat stock used as a mold for meats or vegetables. | Dishes & other foods | Plankton | 110K | |
| A dish of marinated vegetables and meat or fish. | Dishes & other foods | Too Clever | 91K | |
| Fritter containing sliced apple. | Sweets & desserts | Too Clever | 91K | |
| Rice and chicken cooked together Spanish style. | Dishes & other foods | Too Clever | 91K | |
| also Angel cake | A light sponge cake made without egg yolks. | Sweets & desserts | Too Clever | 74K |
| also Cheddar, Cheddar cheese | Hard smooth-textured cheese. | Cheese & dairy | Too Clever | 61K |
| Eaten as mush or as a thin gruel. | Pasta, rice & grains | Too Clever | 50K | |
| A course of appetizers in an Italian meal. | Dishes & other foods | Too Clever | 41K | |
| Thick dark spicy puree of apples. | Sweets & desserts | Too Clever | 41K | |
| Moist spicy cake containing applesauce. | Sweets & desserts | Too Clever | 41K | |
| also Alaskan king crab, King crab, Alaska crab | Meat of large cold-water crab. | Fish & seafood | Too Clever | 33K |
| Relatively small tuna with choice white flesh. | Fish & seafood | Too Clever | 33K | |
| Turnover with an apple filling. | Dishes & other foods | Too Clever | 33K | |
| Tomato and cheese pizza with anchovies. | Dishes & other foods | Too Clever | 27K | |
| also Applesauce | Puree of stewed apples usually sweetened and spiced. | Dishes & other foods | Too Clever | 27K |
| Fatty pink flesh of fish from northern coastal Atlantic. | Fish & seafood | Too Clever | 27K | |
| Apples wrapped in pastry and baked. | Sweets & desserts | Too Clever | 22K | |
| also Almond crescent | Very rich cookie containing ground almonds. | Sweets & desserts | Too Clever | 18K |
| A small open pie filled with sliced apples and sugar. | Breads & pastries | Too Clever | 15K | |
| Soup that contains small noodles in the shape of letters of the alphabet. | Soups & stews | Too Clever | 12K | |
| Cookie made without butter and flavored with anise seed. | Sweets & desserts | Too Clever | 12K | |
| Jelly made from apple juice. | Sweets & desserts | Schooler | 6.6K | |
| also Northern lobster, Maine lobster | Flesh of cold-water lobsters having large tender claws. | Fish & seafood | Schooler | 5.4K |
| A yeast-raised bread made of white flour and cornmeal and molasses. | Breads & pastries | Schooler | 3.6K | |
| also Allemande sauce | Egg-thickened veloute. | Sauces & condiments | Schooler | 1.9K |
| also Ashcake, Corn tash | Corn bread wrapped in cabbage leaves and baked in hot ashes (southern). | Breads & pastries | Schooler | 1.3K |
| Made of white sauce and mashed anchovies. | Sauces & condiments | Schooler | 1K | |
| Butter blended with mashed anchovies. | Sauces & condiments | Rare | 720 | |
| Fruit bar containing apricot jam. | Sweets & desserts | Rare | 590 | |
| Vinaigrette and mashed anchovies. | Sauces & condiments | Rare | 480 | |
| For Chinese dishes: apricot preserves and chutney. | Sauces & condiments | Rare | 480 | |
| A cut of beef including the H-shaped rump bone. | Meat & poultry | Rare | 390 |
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Questions about foods that start with A
How many foods start with A?
RareList lists 35 foods that start with A. 4 are in the Plankton tier, the names everyone knows, and 5 are in the Rare tier or rarer.
What are common foods that start with A?
The most searched foods starting with A are Anchovy, Aioli, Apple pie, Aspic and Adobo.
What is a rare food that starts with A?
Aitchbone is one of the rarest. A cut of beef including the H-shaped rump bone. It gets about 390 US searches a month. Other rare picks: Anchovy butter, Apricot bar and Ash cake.
How does RareList decide what counts as rare?
Each name is ranked by its average monthly Google searches in the United States. Fewer searches means fewer people are likely to think of it, which is what matters in games that reward unique answers. See how we rank for the details.