foodstuff vs food grain

food grain vs foodstuff

foodstuff and food grain both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
foodstuff	Yes	No	No	No
food grain	Yes	No	No	No

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

foodstuff: a substance that can be used or prepared for use as food
food grain: 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, cereal, grain, fixings, ingredient, egg, eggs, dairy product, milk, curd, concoction, intermixture, mixture, juice, perishable, spoilable, macerate.

foodstuff (noun)	food grain (noun)
(usually plural) consumer goods sold by a grocer	foodstuff prepared from the starchy grains of cereal grasses
a substance that can be used or prepared for use as food

Difference between foodstuff and food grain

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