Scandinavian Languages Comparative Vocabulary: Food

Learn food vocabulary in Swedish and Danish

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English	Swedish	Danish
bacon	bacon / fläsk (n)	bacon
beef	nötkött (n)	oksekød (n)
beer	öl (n)	øl (n)
beverage	dryck	drik
biscuit (cracker)	kaka	kage
bread	bröd	brød (n)
breakfast	frukost	morgenmad
butter	smör (n)	smør (n)
cake	kaka / tårta	kage
cereal (breakfast)	flingor	morgenmadsprodukt / cerealier
cereal (grains)	spannmål	korn
cheese	ost	ost
chicken	kyckling	kylling
chocolate	choklad	chokolade
coffee	kaffe	kaffe
cookie	småkaka	småkage
cream	grädde	fløde
dessert	dessert	dessert
dinner	middag	middag / aftensmad
egg	ägg (n)	æg (n)
fat	fett (n)	fedt (n)
flour	mjöl (n)	mel (n)
ham	skinka	skinke
honey	honung	honning
ice	is	is
ice cream	glass	is
jam	sylt (n)	syltetøj (n)
juice	juice / jos	juice
lunch	lunch	frokost
meal	måltid	måltid
meat	kött (n)	kød (n)
milk	mjölk	mælk
mustard	senap	sennop
mutton	fårkött (n)	faarekød (n)
oil	olja	olie
pepper	peppar	peber (n)
pickles	ättikslag	lage
pie	paj	pie
pork	fläsk (n)	svinekød (n)
pudding	pudding	pudding
rice	ris	ris
roll	fralla / småfranska	rundstykke (n)
salad	sallad	salat
salt	salt (n)	salt (n)
sandwich	smörgås	sandwich *
sauce	sås	sauce
sausage	korv	pølse
soup	soppa	suppe
steak	stek	steak
stew	gryta	stuvning
sugar	socker (n)	sukker (n)
sweet bun	bulle	bolle
tea	te (n)	te
toast	rostat bröd	ristet brød
veal	kalvkött (n)	kalvekød (n)
vegetables	grönsaker	grønsager
vinegar	ättika / vinäger	edikke
water	vatten	vand
whipped cream	vispad grädde	flødeskum (n)
wine	vin (n)	vin (n)
yogurt	yoghurt	yoghurt

* For the famous Danish open sandwich, the word is smørrebrød (n).