食物是可以通过消化来吸收或改变生活的所有物质,因此可以修复人体通过生活行为所遭受的损失。 - 味道生理学
(Food is all those substances which, submitted to the action of the stomach, can be assimilated or changed into life by digestion, and can thus repair the losses which the human body suffers through the act of living. -The Physiology of Taste, Brillat-Savarin)