Many foods, when raw, are inedible, and some are poisonous.

Many foods, however, are slightly acidic, and help stimulate the taste buds and enhance flavor.

Many cultures have diversified their foods by means of preparation, cooking methods, and manufacturing.

Many individuals limit what foods they eat for reasons of morality, or other habit.

Many of the laws apply to animal-based foods.

Many Jello dishes, such as desserts and jello salads, became special occasion foods rather than everyday items.

Many of New England's earliest Puritan settlers were from eastern England, where baking foods such as pies, beans, and turkey were more common than frying as was the tradition elsewhere.

Many of New England's earliest Puritan settlers were from eastern England and also brought with them traditions of dairy products and baking pies and other foods.

Many foods associated with sugar, flour, milk, eggs ( many kinds of baking or dairy products such as breads and cheeses ) are more associated with Europe.

Many urban legends depict horrific crimes, contaminated foods or other situations which would affect many people.

Many types of yeasts are used for making many foods: baker's yeast in bread production ; brewer's yeast in beer fermentation ; yeast in wine fermentation and for xylitol production.

Many contribute actively to preserving and protecting wildlife habitats internationally, knowing from experience that uncontrolled hunting can result in population crashes, such as in the US in the 19th century when common wild species that had been staple foods — most famously the passenger pigeon — were unexpectedly hunted to extinction.

Many ascomycetes cause food spoilage, and, therefore, the pellicles or moldy layers that develop on jams, juices, and other foods are the mycelia of these species or occasionally Mucoromycotina and almost never Basidiomycota.

Many nonindigenous Ecuadorians partake in visiting the graves of the deceased, cleaning and bringing flowers, or preparing the traditional foods, too.

Many classic braised dishes such as coq au vin are highly evolved methods of cooking tough and otherwise unpalatable foods.

Many foods can be smoked.

Many processed foods contain palm oil as an ingredient.

Many foods that may be consumed daily are rich in umami.

Many of the differences between low and high glycemic foods would disappear if a meal was eaten slowly.

Many Vietnamese prepare for Tết by cooking special holiday foods and cleaning the house.

Many foods, including beef, eggs, beer, etc., are no longer readily available.

Many recipe websites have noted that a dishwasher can be used to cook certain foods, in particular salmon.

* Many professional athletes abstain from sex, rich foods, and other pleasures before major competitions in order to mentally prepare themselves for the upcoming contest.

A collection of dried mushrooms Sun-drying octopus Many different foods are prepared by dehydration.

Many scouring powders now also contain phosphates.

Many are phototrophic, although some groups contain members that are mixotrophic, deriving energy both from photosynthesis and uptake of organic carbon either by osmotrophy, myzotrophy, or phagotrophy.

Many computer programs contain algorithms that detail the specific instructions a computer should perform ( in a specific order ) to carry out a specified task, such as calculating employees ' paychecks or printing students ' report cards.

Many newer brands are alcohol-free and contain odor-elimination agents such as oxidizers, as well as odor-preventing agents such as zinc ion to keep future bad breath from developing.

Many of the hollow agates of southwestern Brazil and Uruguay contain a crop of amethyst crystals in the interior.

Many American bubble tea vendors sell " milk smoothies ", which are similar to bubble tea but do not contain any tea ingredients.

Many edible beans, including broad beans and soybeans, contain oligosaccharides ( particularly raffinose and stachyose ), a type of sugar molecule also found in cabbage.

Many food, such as beef steak and broccoli, contain low concentrations of both carcinogens and anticarcinogens.

Many constitutions contain provisions to curtail freedoms and criminalize otherwise tolerated behaviors under a state of emergency in the event of war, natural disaster or civil unrest.

Many carbohydrates contain one or more modified monosaccharide units that have had one or more groups replaced or removed.

Many multimedia data streams contain both audio and video, and often some metadata that permit synchronization of audio and video.

Many ( but not all ) computer systems use extensions in file names to help identify what they contain, also known as the file type.

Many religious and mythological systems contain myths about a paradise.

Many other director's cut music videos contain sexual content that can't be shown on TV thus creating alternative scenes, such as 30 Seconds to Mars's Hurricane, and in some cases, alternative videos, such as in the case of Spears ' 2008 video for Womanizer.

Many of the literary works of Søren Kierkegaard, Franz Kafka, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Jean-Paul Sartre, and Albert Camus contain descriptions of people who encounter the absurdity of the world.

Many of the dances also contain dedications to noble women of the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries.

Many other titles contain in-game depictions of graffiti ( such as The Darkness, Double Dragon 3: The Rosetta Stone, NetHack, Samurai Champloo: Sidetracked, The World Ends with You, The Warriors, Just Cause, Portal, various examples of Virtual Graffiti, etc .).

Many devices now sold as Hall effect sensors in fact contain both the sensor as described above plus a high gain integrated circuit ( IC ) amplifier in a single package.

Many libraries contain a " reference section ", which holds books, such as dictionaries, which are common reference books, and are therefore not lent out.

Many translations are made of parts or sections of various German originals and the names of the translations often do not reveal what part of German work they contain.

Many medieval manuscripts of the Mishnah are vowelized, and some of these contain partial Tiberian cantillation.

Many cells have only a single mitochondrion, whereas others can contain several thousand mitochondria.

Many industrially important compounds, such as ammonia, nitric acid, organic nitrates ( propellants and explosives ), and cyanides, contain nitrogen.

Many early manuscripts, however, contain individual readings from several different earlier forms of text.

Many halls that have been listed above contain " houses ", smaller communities within each residence hall, which participate in campus events and socialize.