Plural form; multiple types of food or food ingredients, especially those used for cooking or trade.
Plural of foodstuff, following standard English pluralization. The singular 'foodstuff' emerged in specialized culinary and trade contexts around the 17th-18th centuries.
The word foodstuffs appears constantly in historical trade documents and rationing records—it's the precise term historians use when tracking what people actually ate versus what they imagined eating.
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