Foods that contain V

Below are foods that contain the letter V anywhere in the name. Each of the 21 foods below opens to a full profile.

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List of Foods That Contain V

Agave Syrup

A liquid sweetener pressed from the core of the blue agave plant, marketed as a natural alternative to honey and sugar — sweeter than table sugar, with a low glycemic index but high fructose content.

Anchovies

Small saltwater fish cured in salt for months and packed in oil, prized for the deep umami punch a few fillets add to sauces, dressings, and Mediterranean cooking.

Avocado Toast

Mashed avocado on toasted bread — a 2010s breakfast phenomenon that became a generational cliche, but rooted in much older Australian café cooking and Mexican peasant food.

Baklava

A dessert of layered phyllo pastry, finely chopped nuts, and sugar or honey syrup — claimed by Turkey, Greece, the Levant, and the Balkans.

Ceviche

Raw fish "cooked" by citrus acid — a South American technique of marinating fresh fish in lime juice with chilli, onion, and coriander; the national dish of Peru.

Devilled Eggs

Hard-boiled eggs halved and refilled with a creamy mixture of yolk, mayonnaise, mustard, and vinegar — a classic American party food and picnic staple, dusted with paprika.

Garlic Chives

A flat-leaved Asian relative of common chives, with a distinct mild garlic flavor — also called Chinese chives or kuchai.

Halva

A dense, crumbly sweet confection made from tahini (sesame paste) or semolina, found across the Middle East, Central Asia, South Asia, and the Balkans — one of the world's oldest known confections.

A dark vinegar made from fermented malted barley — the signature condiment for British fish and chips, with distinctive caramel-malty flavor that distinguishes it from grape, rice, or apple-based vinegars.

Pandanus Leaves

Long sword-shaped tropical leaves used as the vanilla of Southeast Asia — adding a distinctive grassy, nutty, faintly floral aroma to rice, sweets, and curries.

Pavlova

A meringue dessert with a crisp exterior shell and soft, marshmallow interior — topped with whipped cream and fresh fruit; the subject of a passionate New Zealand vs. Australia origin debate.

Vanilla

The cured seed pods of an orchid — an extraordinarily labor-intensive natural flavoring whose complex aromatic compound profile makes it essentially impossible to fully replicate synthetically, yet most "vanilla" globally is actually synthetic vanillin.

Veal

The meat of young calves — pale, tender, and mild-flavored, central to classical Italian, French, and Austrian cuisine but increasingly controversial due to ethical concerns about traditional crate-raising.

Vegetable Oil

A generic supermarket category for refined plant-derived cooking oils — usually a blend of soybean, canola, corn, sunflower, or palm — neutral, cheap, and high-heat capable.

Vegetable Spaghetti

A yellow winter squash whose cooked flesh separates into long, translucent spaghetti-like strands — a popular low-carbohydrate alternative to pasta that captures the visual of a pasta dish with a fraction of the calories.

Verjuice

A tart, slightly sweet juice pressed from unripe grapes — a medieval European cooking acid that fell out of fashion and is now slowly returning.

Vermicelli Noodles

Thin noodles found in Italian pasta, Asian rice and mung-bean varieties, and South Asian wheat versions — the same name covering very different products.

Victoria Sponge

Britain's quintessential celebration cake — two light, equal-weight sponge layers sandwiched with raspberry jam and whipped cream (or buttercream), dusted with icing sugar; named after Queen Victoria, who ate a slice of sponge cake with her afternoon tea, and now judged at every village fête in Britain.

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