Well, according to "Dictionary. com," food is defined as
-"any nourishing substance that is eaten, drunk, or otherwise taken into the body to sustain life, provide energy, promote growth, etc."
as well as
- "more or less solid nourishment, as distinguished from liquids."
or
-"a particular kind of solid nourishment"
I believe that most people believe "food" is something solid that is taken into the body for some sort of nourishment or nutrition, so they might consider ice to be food. If you think about it, almost every type of solid food can be reduced into its liquid form which will make it a drink then. In short, I personally think food is solid nourishment or nutrition, whereas drinks are the liquid forms of nourishment or nutrition.
Ice is a drink just because it is solid doesn't mean it's food. Ice is a liquid in a solid state fundamentally you can eat it solid but no matter what the 37 degree body heat will turn it into liquid and from there it's absorbed as a liquid. You could also say it's food as liquid is food as well as meat and stuff like that. It depends on your definition of food in this question. If you want to go really complex it's a well known fact food even meat contains water especially vegetables so eating them also means eating water.
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To answer this, it's essential we define what food is.
"any nutritious substance that people or animals eat or drink or that plants absorb in order to maintain life and growth."
Ice is just frozen water, something essential to maintain our survival, so I'd argue it would fit into the category of food. However, food is digested, water, which is what ice becomes, is not. Therefore I have to banish it from the food category. Considering the definition of a drink:
"take (a liquid) into the mouth and swallow."
Ice is also banished from that category, and I have no choice but to vote C. Ice is in its own league and beyond our mortal selves.
Ice isn't a food as it has almost zero nutritional value and isn't digested, but it's also not a drink since it's solid. If you were crush the ice in your mouth then at first the heat would melt the ice and it would then be a drink but the longer you do this the colder your mouth will get and the less ice will melt leaving you with just slush and a very very cold and most likely painful mouth. Also my teeth hurt the entire time I typed this out, thanks 😛
I'd say it's a drink because it has no caloric value and unless your are barbaric and swallow the ice then you probably are like most people who chew it and it melts before you swallow it thus making it a drink.
a The FDA classifies the liquid known as water in frozen form, aka, ice, as a food. They've never been wrong about anything. Ever.
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"Food" usually has nutrients and vitamins and a bunch of other elements that our body consumes. Water is H2O and beyond that, not much else. Whether in liquid or solid form, it's still H2O, and whether water is naturally solid ice or liquid is still the same thing.
I say a drink because regardless if you let it melt in your mouth or chew it up and swallow, you body heat will turn it back to liquid and be used as a liquid in your body. There is nothing else for your stomach or body to break down from it.
You don't eat it and then poop it out. It goes to the bladder.
Ice is not good, it's not food you should NEVER drink with it and you should NEVER crunch it.
In developed countries (US excluded) it is well known to be a source of tons of deseases and reduces the immune system during hot weather as it confuses the biological thermometer.
Eating ice cream or drinking cold drinks does not cause the same damage a sub zero ice does.
Ask your doctor for more info on this.
Depends. If you put it in a bowl and use spoon for it then it's a food. If you put it in a glass and use straw for it then it's a drink. That applies for soup. But ice is usually served in a glass with straw and soup is usually served in a bowl with spoon so ice is a drink.
Ice, of course, is simply water in a different state of matter. Or is water simply ice that has reached its melting point?
I have a snow-cone maker (see picture) that shaves ice down into a pile of "snow" onto which I put any of a number of syrups for a nice treat for the summer. In this instance, the ice becomes a food: it is eaten with a spoon. Let it melt down a few minutes and stir and it becomes a Slurpee- I think that is a drink.
That depends, do you call an icecream a food or a drink? But you eat it so yeh, unless you suck it, then it's sucking and not eating... So erm... I don't really know, this is complicated.
Plain ice? I'd say it's neither, it's a consumable cooling agent.
Its a drink
Its just frozen h2o. The motion of eating it doesn't make it food
Food would need to contain some sort of caloric value and would need to be a carb, protein or fat
Bro at first I thought this question was stupid but now it is like messing with me... I don't know
It’s neither. It’s just really cold water used to cool down other things. I would say it’s more close to a food because you can’t drink a solid. When it melts, it’s not technically ice anymore.
Ice is in the same family as pudding, so I guess it's food.
It's a side for water that cools it and you drink it after it melts, so I don't know.
Could always say that you are chewing on ice rather than eating it.
It does not cure you of hunger but relief to your thirst. Therefore a drink.
I can't bite into ice (teeth freeze), but eat it like a bon bon.
It's still a drink because it melts before it even hits your stomach.
Ice has no flavour no calories no taste only thing it does is cover the esophagus so we don't have parched throwt.
I meant to choose food because of flavored shaved ice, ice pops, popsicles in general. If you wait for those things to melt and drink them you'll be considered weird.
Ice is a food. It is frozen water (solid). But as it reaches its melting point, it becomes water.
Ice and water are two different states of matter.
I’d say it’s a drink because even if you swallow a cube whole, your body heat will melt it so it will become water.
It's a food because you can't drink ice as it is.
But it melts into a drink.
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