INDEX:
1. food that is fresh
2. not fresh
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1. food that is fresh
▷ fresh /freʃ/ [adjective]
fresh food has been produced or picked recently, and has not been frozen or put into cans :
▪ I go to the market twice a week to buy fresh fruit and vegetables.
▪ Fresh fish is much more delicious than frozen.
▪ a dozen fresh eggs
keep something fresh
▪ Put the milk in the fridge to keep it fresh.
freshly [adverb]
▪ freshly-baked bread
2. not fresh
▷ go off/go bad /ˌgəʊ ˈɒf, ˌgəʊ ˈbæd/ [intransitive phrasal verb] especially spoken
if food goes off or goes bad, it starts to decay because it has been kept for too long :
▪ Can you smell this milk and see if you think it’s gone off?
▪ I don’t think we should eat that meat now - it’s probably gone bad.
▷ bad /bæd/ [adjective] especially British
food that is bad is not good to eat, because it has started to decay :
▪ She must have eaten something bad because she was really sick in the night.
▪ Shall I just throw away these bad apples?
▷ stale /steɪl/ [adjective]
bread, cake etc that is stale is hard, dry, and unpleasant to eat :
▪ This bread’s stale - have we got another loaf?
▪ All we got was a cup of tea and a bit of stale cake.
go stale
▪ Put the biscuits back in the tin or they’ll go stale.
▷ sour /saʊəʳ/ [adjective]
milk, cream, wine etc that is sour tastes bitter and smells unpleasant :
▪ The wine was so sour that I couldn’t drink it.
go sour
▪ In these temperatures, milk goes sour very quickly.
▷ rotten /ˈrɒtnǁˈrɑːtn/ [adjective]
fruit, vegetables, meat etc that is rotten is very badly decayed, has gone soft, smells unpleasant, and cannot be eaten :
▪ There were some cheap oranges in the market but most of them were rotten.
▪ the unmistakable smell of rotten eggs