foodstuff vs cereal

cereal vs foodstuff

foodstuff and cereal both are nouns.

foodstuff is not an adjective while cereal is an adjective.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
foodstuff	Yes	No	No	No
cereal	Yes	Yes	No	No

As nouns, cereal is a hyponym of foodstuff; that is, cereal is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than foodstuff:

foodstuff: a substance that can be used or prepared for use as food
cereal: foodstuff prepared from the starchy grains of cereal grasses

Other hyponyms of foodstuff include starches, breadstuff, coloring, colouring, food color, food coloring, food colour, food colouring, concentrate, meal, fiber, fibre, roughage, flour, frozen food, frozen foods, canned food, canned foods, canned goods, tinned goods, dehydrated food, dehydrated foods, carob, carob powder, Saint-John's-bread, tapioca, cocoa, food grain, grain, fixings, ingredient, egg, eggs, dairy product, milk, curd, concoction, intermixture, mixture, juice, perishable, spoilable, macerate.

foodstuff (noun)	cereal (noun)
(usually plural) consumer goods sold by a grocer	a breakfast food prepared from grain
a substance that can be used or prepared for use as food	foodstuff prepared from the starchy grains of cereal grasses
	grass whose starchy grains are used as food: wheat, rice, rye, oats, maize, buckwheat, millet

foodstuff (adjective)	cereal (adjective)
	made of grain or relating to grain or the plants that produce it

Difference between foodstuff and cereal

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