Edible
Edible adjective - Suitable for use as food.
Usage example: edible plant products
Palatable is a synonym for edible in safe to eat topic. In some cases you can use "Palatable" instead an adjective "Edible", when it comes to topics like eatable, able to be eaten. popular alternative
Nearby Word: edibility
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Malocchio is quite the gourmet and an excellent cook (he manages to concoct something not only edible, but quite palatable, out of only the ingredients "beans, grapes, cinnamon and tobacco").
Source: Western Animation / The Awesomes - His kitchen looks more like an alchemical laboratory for a reason: Some of the ingredients he enjoys using really need that much effort to be edible, let alone palatable.
Source: Characters / Sunless Sea - As Lord Garth learns too late, the only way for an herbivorous dinosaur to learn whether something is edible is to bite into it and spit it out if it isn't palatable.
Source: Carnivore Confusion / Literature
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