A foodstuff is food when you are talking about it as a thing that is grown, made, stored, or sold — not as dinner on a plate. You meet it in business, farming, trade, and official writing: grain, oil, sugar, tinned fish.

A foodstuff is foodfoodstuff指的是食物 when you are talking about it as a thing that is grown, made, stored, or sold當你把它當成被種植、製造、儲存或販售的東西來講的時候 not as dinner on a plate而不是盤子裡的一餐 You meet it in business, farming, trade, and official writing你會在商業、農業、貿易，和官方文件裡看到這個字 grain, oil, sugar, tinned fish像穀物、油、糖、罐頭魚

It often appears in the plural, foodstuffs. You would not normally tell a friend you bought foodstuffs at the shop; you bought food, or groceries.

It often appears in the plural, foodstuffs它常常用複數形foodstuffs You would not normally tell a friend you bought foodstuffs at the shop你通常不會跟朋友說你在店裡買了foodstuffs you bought food, or groceries你會說你買了food（食物）或groceries（雜貨）

The word is dry and useful. It lets a report talk about ‘basic foodstuffs’ without naming every item.

The word is dry and useful這個字很枯燥但很實用 It lets a report talk about basic foodstuffs它讓一份報告可以講「basic foodstuffs（基本食品）」 without naming every item不用把每一項都列出來

Stuff here means material or goods, not ‘rubbish’. Though actually, in ordinary speech stuff already covers this in a looser way — ‘food and stuff’ — but foodstuff is the tidy, official member of that family.

Stuff here means material or goods這裡的stuff指的是材料或物資 not rubbish不是「垃圾」的意思 Though actually, in ordinary speech stuff already covers this in a looser way不過其實在日常說話裡，stuff本來就可以比較鬆散地涵蓋這個意思 food and stuff像「food and stuff（食物之類的）」 but foodstuff is the tidy, official member of that family但foodstuff是這個字家族裡比較正式、整齊的成員