Here are 40 rhyming riddles for kids where the answers are all different types of food.
We’ve also produced a free printable worksheet containing these food riddles – just click on the blue button at the bottom of the page to get a copy that your kids can complete.
The fifth page of the worksheet contains all the answers, so don’t give them that page too by accident!
If your children enjoy this activity, we have more food riddles and printable worksheets for them to work on.
40 Food Riddles For Kids
1) Lemon
This is something yellow
But it is not a light
It is a citrus fruit
That’s a flavor in Sprite
2) Corn
This normally grows in fields
It’s a grain from what I hear
It can be eaten piece by piece
Or straight from a long ear
3) Candy Cane
With red and white stripes
It’s something you lick
Despite it looking
Like a hockey stick
4) Pig
This animal gives us meat
On which you sometimes dine
It gives us tasty bacon
And it’s sometimes known as swine
5) Pear
I am a fruit whose name sounds
As though there might be two of me
In a Christmas song there is
A partridge in this kind of tree
6) Butter
I can sometimes be a stick
But I don’t come from a tree
I can be spread on your toast
I’m a product that’s dairy
7) Onion
This is a root vegetable
That can be red, white or green
It can make you cry a lot
Even though it is not mean
8) Banana
I am a yellow fruit
That you might eat at lunch
When there’s a group of me
We are known as a bunch
9) Tuna
It’s the name of a type of fish
That’s packed in a can so tight
It sounds like the name of someone
Who makes a piano sound right
10) Grape
I can be red or green
I get grown on a vine
I’m dried to make raisins
Or squeezed to help make wine
11) Egg
I’m sometimes decorated
Using paint or with a pen
I can be eaten scrambled
And I get laid by a hen
12) Carrot
Rabbits like to eat me
When I grow in a field
This orange vegetable
Tastes best when it is peeled
13) Cookie
I am sometimes made of sugar
And sometimes of oatmeal
Chocolate chip ones taste so good
You might find that you squeal!
14) Tomato
I’m red and have seeds
And I am also round
Sliced up in salads
Is where I can be found
15) Ice Cream
In a bowl you use a spoon
On a cone you give a lick
This frozen dairy dessert
Many flavors you can pick
16) Coconut
I’ve a brown shell on the outside
And my shape is an oval
However, I am not an egg
From a palm tree’s where I fall
17) Chicken
You can eat its wings
Its breast and its legs
Plus when it’s alive
You can eat its eggs
18) Rice
There are many types of this food
Wild, brown and white to name a few
Before it ever reached your plate
A paddy field is where it grew
19) Potato
I can be fried
Boiled and mashed
Roasted and baked
Scalloped and hashed
20) Orange
This is a fruit that
You might be fed
You just need to mix
Yellow and red
21) Gingerbread House
You might make this at Christmas
So that you can stuff your face
A cake, icing and candy
An edible dwelling place
22) Popcorn
If you go see a movie
You have to get some of this
And then add butter or salt
For a taste that’s simply bliss
23) Raisin
I’m sometimes in breakfast cereals
In a box of bran flakes I’m sprinkled
I am a grape that has been dried out
Which means that I am small and wrinkled
24) Fish
Cod, carp, herring and salmon
Flounder, trout and anchovies
Sole, red snapper and tuna
What types of creatures are these?
25) Cranberry
You’ll eat this fruit with turkey
To help fill up your belly
It sometimes comes as a sauce
And sometimes it’s a jelly
26) Honey
I’m something that is sticky
I’m something that is sweet
I’m made by more than one bee
I’m something that you eat
27) Pizza
If you’re craving some fast food
Then this thing might grant your wish
It sometimes has a stuffed crust
And sometimes it is deep dish
28) Apple
This is something that grows on a tree
It is a fruit that is green or red
It’s said gravity was discovered
When one of these fell on Newton’s head
29) Cow
They live in a field
Milk is what they make
They help give us leather
And a juicy steak
30) Tortilla
Ground beef, sour cream, guacamole
Rice, pinto beans and cheese
To finish making a burrito
They’re wrapped in one of these
31) Strawberry
I am a fruit that’s red
That’s often used in a smoothie
I’m bought in a punnet
And made into jam and jelly
32) Pumpkin
You might pick up one of these
When you go out to a patch
Carve it, put in a candle
And then light it with a match
33) Turkey
There’s lots of me at Thanksgiving
But you don’t want me to be wasted
Because my meat’s really juicy
Just so long as I have been basted
34) Pineapple
This fruit is made of two words conjoined
The first part of it is also a tree
The second part is a different fruit
And goes on a pizza from Hawaii
35) Chocolate
There’s white and milk and dark
These three types you might eat
As a type of candy
It really can’t be beat
36) Lime
This is a type of green fruit
Which grows on a citrus tree
When it is part of a pie
You might say that it is key
37) Salt
This thing comes as a small grain
But it’s not sugar or sand
It’s often used when cooking
So that food doesn’t taste bland
38) Kiwi Fruit
This is a type of small fruit
Which is smaller than your hand
Fuzzy outside, green inside
Often comes from New Zealand
39) Candied Yams
If you like sweet side dishes
This will make you a happy fellow
As it has sweet potatoes
As well as sugar and marshmallow
40) Frog
I like to hop around
By using my four feet
But sadly it’s my legs
Which the French like to eat
