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Originally Posted by whl626 " Restrict the amount and frequency of sugary foods. "
Regarding ' food ', I just came across this from a Darlie toothpaste advertisement. Even the formal advertisement also came to use plural on food. |
Since it is common to pluralize words by using an
s ending, perhaps some non-native speakers pluralize words native-English speakers would not. In your example sentence, in this country (USA) we would not use
foods. However, while it is rare, there are times when we would use it. Example: "Chicken is one of the foods I eat." Here is another: "It's one of the world's favorite foods." (I got the idea for that one via a Web search.)
Of course, more common is something like: "I'm going to go out to buy some food."
Foods is, apparently, used in many company names and also when discussing things like
grain foods and other kinds of food.
If
foods is in common usage where you are as the "plural" of
food then it is probably the thing to do to join the crowd.
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