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Nonculturally specific

Aquifer fizz

  • Naturally carbonated water extracted from Martian subsurface permafrost (TTN Novel: Taking Wing)

Acamarian

Cralluck wrap

  • Street food (TOS Novel: The Captain's Oath)
  • Avian meat and root vegetables wrapped in shemras leaves (TOS Novel: The Captain's Oath)

Parthas wrap

  • Street food (TOS Novel: The Captain's Oath)
  • Vegetables wrapped in shemras leaves (TOS Novel: The Captain's Oath)

Aldebaran

Aldebaran whiskey

  • Incredibly strong, vibrant green alcoholic beverage (TNG: "Relics"; DS9: "Prophet Motive", "Explorers", "Distant Voices"; TNG Novel: A Time to Heal)

Andorian

Chirini roast

  • Food (ENT Novel: A Choice of Futures)

Fesoan grainwine

  • Drink (ENT Novel: Beneath the Raptor's Wing)

Flatroot

  • Breakfast delicacy (DS9 Novel: Mission Gamma: This Gray Spirit)

Redbat

  • Food (ENT Novel: A Choice of Futures)

Androssi

Anprat

  • Fattening delicacy from Androssi homeworld (SCE Short Story: "Cold Fusion")

Archer IV

Archerian slug wine

  • Thick, pulpy, yellowish-brown alcoholic beverage produced in some way from Archerian slugs (DS9 Novel: The 34th Rule)
  • Especially enjoyed by Ferengi (DS9 Novel: The 34th Rule)

Bajoran

Alva

  • Fruit (DS9: "Resurrection"; DS9 Novel: Mission Gamma: Twilight)

Alva nut tea

  • Beverage (DS9 Novel: Mission Gamma: Cathedral)

Deka tea

  • Drink (DS9: "Wrongs Darker Than Death or Night", "The Alternate"; DS9 Novel: Gamma: Original Sin)

Foraiga

  • Rare delicacy (TNG: "Preemptive Strike"; DS9 Novel: Mission Gamma: Twilight)

Hasperat

  • Assemblage of ingredients wrapped in a tortilla-analogue, sliced into individual servings and served warm (DS9)
  • Incredibly spicy (TNG: "Preemptive Strike"; DS9: "A Simple Investigation"; VOY: "Someone to Watch Over Me")
    • Ingredients are prepared in a special brine, imparting heat (TNG: "Preemptive Strike")
    • Ingredients can also be steamed for reduced heat for those with sensitive digestion (TNG Novel: Q & A)

Jevi nut

  • Apparently similar to peanuts (DS9 Novel: Gamma: Original Sin)

Jumja

  • Extremely sweet confection eaten on a stick (DS9: "A Man Alone", "In the Hands of the Prophets", "Ferengi Love Songs", "Image in the Sand"; DS9 Novel: Gamma: Original Sin)
  • Made from the sap of the jumja tree (DS9: "In the Hands of the Prophets")
  • High in vitamin C (DS9: "In the Hands of the Prophets")
  • Cubed for tea much as sugar (DS9 Novel: Gamma: Original Sin)
  • Can be reduced into syrup (DS9 Novel: Gamma: Original Sin)

Kava

Kavameal

  • Traditional Bajoran breakfast staple (DS9 Novel: Gamma: Original Sin)

Kava flakes

  • Akin to cereal (DS9 Novel: Gamma: Original Sin)

Kava fruit

  • Watery fruit with a soft texture (VOY Short Story: "Letting Go")
  • Taste reminiscent of cantaloupe or orange, with a salty aftertaste (VOY Short Story: "Letting Go")

Kava juice

  • Drink (DS9: "You Are Cordially Invited", "Penumbra")
    • Ferments into springwine (DS9: "Penumbra")

Kava milk

  • Apparently milk from the kava plant (DS9 Novel: Gamma: Original Sin)
  • Kava is a fruiting grain? Does that even make sense?

Springwine

  • Alcoholic drink (DS9: "Return to Grace", "Ferengi Love Songs", "Chrysalis", "Covenant", "Penumbra", "'Til Death Do Us Part", "Strange Bedfellows"; DS9 Novel: Mission Gamma: Twilight)
  • Produced from fermentation of kava juice (DS9: "Penumbra")
  • Can be light red, white, or blue depending on the variety of kava used to produce it (DS9: "Return to Grace", "'Til Death Do Us Part", "Strange Bedfellows")

Mapa bread

  • Food (DS9 Novel: Mission Gamma: Twilight, Gamma: Original Sin)

Moba

  • Bajoran fruit (DS9 Novel: Mission Gamma: Twilight, Gamma: Original Sin)
  • can be made into preserves, juice (DS9 Novel: Mission Gamma: Twilight, Gamma: Original Sin)

Pooncheen

  • Fruit of the pooncheen tree (DS9 Novel: The 34th Rule, Mission Gamma: Twilight)

Pooncheenee

  • Fruit juice typically served at breakfast (DS9 Novel: The 34th Rule, Mission Gamma: Twilight, Mission Gamma: This Gray Spirit, Gamma: Original Sin)
  • Reddish-orange opaque liquid somewhat akin in appearance to orange juice (DS9 Novel: Mission Gamma: Twilight)
  • Especially sweet (DS9 Novel: The 34th Rule, Mission Gamma: Twilight)

Regilof

  • Drink (DS9 Novel: Mission Gamma: Cathedral)

Shrimp

  • Bajoran shrimp-analogue, usually referred to simply as "shrimp" (DS9: "You Are Cordially Invited"; DS9 Novel: Mission Gamma: Twilight)

Betazoid

Allira punch

  • Non-alcoholic drink (TNG Novel: A Time for War, A Time for Peace)

Oskoid fronds

  • Lettuce-like leafy vegetable (TNG: "Menage a Troi", "Half a Life"; TTN Novel: Taking Wing)
  • Dark yellow, purple veins (TNG: "Menage a Troi")
  • Kept warm by internal sap (TNG: "Menage a Troi")

Uttaberry

  • Edible fruit (TNG: "Ménage à Troi", "Dark Page"; DS9: "Armageddon Game")
    • Sweet, pungent berry with slight bitterness (TNG Novel: Death in Winter)
  • Commonly used in baked goods, including crepes and pies (TNG: "Dark Page"; DS9: "Armageddon Game")
  • Also used in pudding served for breakfast (TNG Novel: Death in Winter)

Bolian

Alterian chowder

  • Green soup (TNG Novel: A Time to Kill)
    • Made from sabba root, hilok leaf (TNG Novel: A Time to Kill)

Balso

  • Alcoholic beverage (TNG Novel: A Time to Heal)

Bolian rice

  • Native analogue (TNG Novel: Q & A)

Bolian spice nectar

  • Drink (SCE Short Story: "Home Fires")
  • Valuable luxury item (SCE Short Story: "Home Fires")
    • Difficult to transport; very sensitive to spoilage (SCE Short Story: "Home Fires")

Eelshark salad

  • Food (DS9 Novel: Mission Gamma: Lesser Evil)
    • Potentially toxic to other species (DS9 Novel: Mission Gamma: Lesser Evil)

Hilok leaf

  • Herb (TNG Novel: A Time to Kill)

Sabba root

  • Food (TNG Novel: A Time to Kill)

Capellan

  • Food is generally pungent (DS9 Novel: Mission Gamma: Twilight)

Grosz

  • Alcoholic beverage (DS9 Novel: Mission Gamma: Twilight)
  • Purple in hue (DS9 Novel: Mission Gamma: Twilight)

Canopus Planet

Trwoqa

  • Variety of cheese (TNG Novel: Q & A)

Cardassian

Kanar

  • Common alcoholic beverage (Various)

Taspar egg

  • Most often served boiled, but edible (if generally considered revolting) raw (TNG: "Chain of Command, Part II")

Delta Sigma IV

Cacheen

  • Spiced bread filled with fruit (TNG Novel: A Time to Love)

Coolar

  • Stimulant similar to coffee or tea (TNG Novel: A Time to Love, A Time to Hate)
  • Brewed from native root (TNG Novel: A Time to Love)

Denobulan

Denobulan wine

  • Alcoholic drink (ENT Novel: Live by the Code)

Ee native

Spinewater

  • Unscented liquor (DS9 Novel: Rising Son)
    • Generally provided with various flavor options imbued into the liquor (DS9 Novel: Rising Son)

Ferengi

  • Generally insectivorous, fungivorous

Eelwasser

  • Brand of drink (DS9: "Profit and Lace"; DS9 Novel: Mission Gamma: This Gray Spirit)

Honey beetle cluster

  • Type of candy (TTN Novel: Taking Wing)

Lemto

  • Variety of cheese (TNG Novel: Q & A)

Slugsteak

  • Food (DS9 Novel: Mission Gamma: This Gray Spirit)

Slug Slime

  • Brand of candy (TTN Novel: Taking Wing)

Spore pie

  • Food (SCE Short Story: "Caveat Emptor")

Tube grub

  • Common appetizer or snack food (Various)

First Federation

Tranya

  • Alcoholic beverage (TOS: "Corbomite Maneuver"; DS9 Novel: The 34th Rule)

Frunalian

Kiriliona

  • Strong liquor (DS9 Novel: The 34th Rule)
  • Releases a very light gas that quickly dissipates (DS9 Novel: The 34th Rule)

Intarian

Jiksn

  • Lavender-tinted drink (SCE Short Story: "Hard Crash")

Kazon

Hock ale

  • Drink (VOY Novel: Mosaic)

Roast naggath

  • Food (VOY Novel: Mosaic)

Kevrata

Pojjima

  • Bitter drink (TNG Novel: Death in Winter)
  • Frothy, dark (TNG Novel: Death in Winter)

Klingon

Bloodwine

  • Potent alcoholic beverage (Various)

Bregit lung

  • Food (VAN Novel: Reap the Whirlwind)

Gagh

  • Worms native to Qo'noS (Various)
  • Preferably eaten live
    • Must be chewed to death before swallowing (TNG Novel: A Time to Kill; TTN Novel: Taking Wing)
    • If swallowed live, attaches to intestinal tract (TNG Novel: A Time to Kill; TTN Novel: Taking Wing)

Kohlar beast belly

  • Food (SCE Short Story: "Caveat Emptor")
    • Likely akin to porkbelly given context

lIngta'

  • Common livestock, source of meat (DS9: "Looking for par'Mach in All the Wrong Places", "Rapture"; TNG Novel: Q & A)
    • Leg of lIngta' a traditional offering for courtship (DS9: "Looking for par'Mach in All the Wrong Places")

Pipius claw

  • Food (VAN Novel: Reap the Whirlwind)

Prune juice

  • Originated on Earth
  • Introduced to Klingon Empire via slow diffusion from Worf (TNG: "Yesterday's Enterprise"; TNG Novel: Q & A)
    • Major import in the Empire by late 24th century (TNG Novel: Q & A)

qa'vIn

  • Drink based on Human coffee beans looted from attacks on Earth vessels c.22nd century (ENT Novel: Live by the Code)
  • Processed by Klingon agronomists to greatly enhance potency and concentration of caffeine (ENT Novel: Live by the Code)

ra'taj

  • Liqueur (Klingon for the Galactic Traveler)

Raktajino

  • Klingon coffee-equivalent (Various)
  • Derived from a blend of qa'vIn and ra'taj liquor, brewed as a cappucino (Klingon for the Galactic Traveler)
  • First began reaching Federation space c.2298 (TLE Novel: The Sundered)

Raskur

  • Drink (TTN Novel: Taking Wing)

Rokeg blood pie

  • Food (Various)

Taknar gizzard

  • Food (TNG Novel: Q & A)
    • Among those items in Klingon cuisine that tend to provoke the least response in outsiders (TNG Novel: Q & A)

Targ

  • Boar-analogue commonly used as a source of meat (Various)

Heart of targ

  • Food (VAN Novel: Reap the Whirlwind)

Warnog

  • Drink (VAN Novel: Reap the Whirlwind; TNG Novel: A Time to Kill)

Zilm'kach

  • Food (VAN Novel: Reap the Whirlwind)

Kriosian

Kriosian rice

  • Native analogue to rice (TNG Novel: Q & A)

Ktarian

Ktarian merlot

  • Drink (SCE Short Story: "Balance of Nature")

Nalori

Mashed vixpril

  • Food made from the vixpril, root native to Nalor (SCE Short Story: "Invincible, Book One")

Nasat

Greela

  • Fruit commonly consumed when rotting (SCE Short Story: "Past Life")

Gourd paste cakes

  • Food (SCE Short Story: "Balance of Nature")
    • Unclear if savory or sweet (SCE Short Story: "Balance of Nature")

Jahang berry

  • Edible fruit (SCE Short Story: "Balance of Nature")

Kaino root

  • Vegetable (SCE Short Story: "Balance of Nature")

Pledh

  • Fruit produced by the plant of the same name (SCE Short Story: "Balance of Nature")

Swamp tea

  • Drink (SCE Short Story: "Enigma Ship")

Zeeflower hip

  • Fruit of the zeeflower (SCE Short Story: "Balance of Nature")
  • Can be steeped into zeeflower hip tea (SCE Short Story: "Balance of Nature")

Orion

Mandisa

  • Alcoholic drink with a reputation as an aphrodisiac (VAN Novel: Harbinger)
  • Illegal within the Federation (VAN Novel: Harbinger)

Payav

Spiced curd spread

  • Food (MA Short Story: "Things Fall Apart")
    • Known in Larenda (MA Short Story: "Things Fall Apart")

Rigelian

Chelon

  • Chelon tend to prefer intensely sour or acrid flavors (VAN Novel: Harbinger)

Coferian oyster broth

  • Chilled soup (VAN Novel: Open Secrets)

N'v'aa

  • Incredibly sour fruit cocktail drink (VAN Novel: Harbinger)

Pickled keesa beetle

  • Food (VAN Novel: Harbinger, Open Secrets)
  • Served either individually or within/as the main component of a broth (VAN Novel: Harbinger, Open Secrets)

Romulan

Aafvun'in'hhui mollusk soup

  • Food (ENT Novel: Beneath the Raptor's Wing)

Carallun wine

  • Amber-colored alcoholic drink (ENT Novel: Kobayashi Maru)

Hvetollh

  • Tea brewed from leaves of the rreinnte tree (TNG Short Story: "Suicide Note")
  • Spicy, nutty flavor (TNG Short Story: "Suicide Note")

Khek'irho brew

  • Drink (ENT Novel: Kobayashi Maru)

Kali-fal

  • Most commonly known outside the Empire as Romulan ale (various)
    • Romulan name via Beneath the Raptor's Wing
  • Strongly alcoholic beverage (various)
  • Ranges from pale to deep blue (various)
  • Recommended to be drunk quickly, or else "risk injury" (TOS Novel: Errand of Vengeance: Killing Blow)
    • Potentially only applicable for humans

Osol twist

  • Sour dessert pastry (ENT Novel: Beneath the Raptor's Wing)

Viinerine

  • Simple cuisine, often served by the military (ENT Novel: Beneath the Raptor's Wing; TNG: "Face of the Enemy")

Saurian

Loka leaf

  • Food (TNG Novel: A Time to Kill)

Narpran rum

  • Drink (ENT Novel: Tower of Babel)

Pevrig cake

  • Food (ENT Novel: Tower of Babel)

Saurian brandy

  • Drink (Various)

Skorr

Skorrian fritter

  • Food (DS9 Novel: Mission Gamma: Twilight)

Talaxian

Leola root

  • Edible root native to numerous Delta Quadrant worlds
    • Including Talax, Napinay (VOY: "State of Flux"; VOY Short Story: "Isabo's Shirt")
      • Talax presumptive given Neelix's deep familiarity with the ingredient

Tarkalean

Tarkalean tea

  • Common drink (DS9: "Past Prologue", "Cardassians", "The Wire", "Distant Voices", "Hippocratic Oath", "Trials and Tribble-ations", "Let He Who Is Without Sin...")

Tellarite

Bojnoggi

  • Term is closest approximation for Human tongues; proper Tellarite pronunciation difficult for most Humans to pronounce (VAN Novel: Summon the Thunder)
  • Caffeinated morning beverage equivalent to coffee (VAN Novel: Summon the Thunder)
  • Taste reminiscent of caffeinated mushroom soup (VAN Novel: Summon the Thunder)

Egrimat pie

  • Dessert (SCE Short Story: "Here There Be Monsters")

Tezwan

  • Raw shellfish considered a delicacy as of 24th century (TNG Novel: A Time to Kill)

Jeefa

  • Alcoholic beverage used as ingredient (TNG Novel: A Time to Kill, A Time to Heal)

Naka root

  • Food (TNG Novel: A Time to Kill)
  • Can be boiled (TNG Novel: A Time to Kill)

Trill

Grakizh

  • Yellow-leafed vegetable (SCE Short Story: "War Stories, Part 1"; Novel: Articles of the Federation)
  • Commonly used in salads (SCE Short Story: "War Stories, Part 1"; Novel: Articles of the Federation)

Syto beans

  • Food (DS9 Short Story: "Reflections")

Trinni/ek

Fleer/ok

  • Food (Novel: Articles of the Federation)
  • Incompatible with biochemistry of many known Federation species (Novel: Articles of the Federation)

Frimk/ek

  • Drink (Novel: Articles of the Federation)
  • Traditional start to any meal (Novel: Articles of the Federation)

Vulcan

Liral

  • Native fruit (VAN Novel: Open Secrets)

Plomeek soup

  • Vegetarian soup made from the plomeek (Various)
  • Opaque orange (TLE Novel: The Sundered)

Port

  • Native alcoholic beverage (DS9: "The Maquis, Part I"; DS9 Novel: Mission Gamma: This Gray Spirit)

T'Rukh spiced tea

  • Drink (ENT Novel: Kobayashi Maru)

Wadi

Basted espods

  • Food (DS9 Novel: Rising Son)

Curis rib

  • Food (DS9 Novel: Rising Son)

Wints

  • Drink (DS9 Novel: Rising Son)

Yridian

Yridian brandy

  • Drink (DS9: "Who Mourns for Morn?"; DS9 Novel: Mission Gamma: Twilight)

Yrythny

  • Yrythny proteins largely drawn from marine life (DS9 Novel: Mission Gamma: This Gray Spirit)

Darro strips

  • Delicacy from the Black Archipelago (DS9 Novel: Mission Gamma: This Gray Spirit)
    • Produced by House Soid (DS9 Novel: Mission Gamma: This Gray Spirit)
  • Darro meat fileted into thin strips, marinated and dried for a year (DS9 Novel: Mission Gamma: This Gray Spirit)

Kelp cake

  • Breakfast food (DS9 Novel: Mission Gamma: This Gray Spirit)

Leaberry pastry

  • Food (DS9 Novel: Mission Gamma: This Gray Spirit)

Shmshu cheese

  • Food (DS9 Novel: Mission Gamma: This Gray Spirit)

Zantos

Zantos ale

  • Reputation as the best ale in the Alpha Quadrant (NF Novel: Into the Void)
    • Said to be higher quality than Romulan ale (NF Novel: Into the Void)
  • Extremely difficult to obtain (NF Novel: Into the Void)

Zibalian

Zibalian chili

  • Food (TNG Novel: A Time to Heal)

Unknown

Baba root

  • Edible root indigenous to Delta Quadrant world (VOY Short Story: "Isabo's Shirt")

Bularian canapé

  • Hors d'oeuvre (TNG: "Journey's End", "Preemptive Strike"; TNG Novel: Greater Than the Sum)

Cobalt soda

  • Drink (TNG Novel: A Time for War, A Time for Peace)

Cretalian chocolate

  • Chocolate analogue native to Delta Quadrant (VOY Short Story: "Isabo's Shirt")

Elbbarcs wine

  • Alcoholic beverage produced in or near Lutralian Hegemony (SCE Short Story: "Foundations, Book Three")

Frimlike

  • Beverage known in the Federation (Novel: Articles of the Federation)
  • Can be served "mildly heated" (Novel: Articles of the Federation)

Gamzian wine

  • Alcoholic beverage popular, common in space near B'hava'el (DS9: "Q-Less", "The Storyteller", "Blood Oath", "Rivals", "Treachery, Faith, and the Great River"; DS9 Novel: Mission Gamma: This Gray Spirit)
  • Color varies from red to orange to green (DS9: "Q-Less", "The Storyteller", "Rivals")

Grissibian nocha

  • From Delta Quadrant civilization (VOY Novel: Mosaic)
  • Akin to chocolate, but denser, richer, and creamier (VOY Novel: Mosaic)
  • One of many varieties of nocha (VOY Novel: Mosaic)

Icoberry

  • Dark-blue fruit common in space near B'hava'el (DS9: "The Homecoming", "Sanctuary", "Let He Who Is Without Sin..."; DS9 Novel: Mission Gamma: This Gray Spirit)
  • Can be made into juice, jam, or sauce (DS9: "Let He Who Is Without Sin..."; DS9 Novel: Mission Gamma: This Gray Spirit; TNG Novel: Q & A)
  • Often baked into desserts (DS9: "The Homecoming", "Sanctuary")

Jibelian fudge

  • Chocolate analogue from Delta Quadrant on or near Talax (VOY: "Twisted", "Riddles"; VOY Short Story: "Isabo's Shirt")
  • Usable in baking desserts (VOY: "Twisted", "Riddles"; VOY Short Story: "Isabo's Shirt")

Jimbalian fire fruit

  • Especially spicy fruit (SCE Short Story: "Home Fires"0

Loperian reelkot

  • Uncommon food that requires refrigeration (VAN Novel: Harbinger)

Maraltian seev-ale

  • Light-blue alcoholic beverage (DS9: "Duet"; DS9 Novel: Mission Gamma: Twilight)

Matopin rock fungi

  • Food (DS9 Novel: Mission Gamma: This Gray Spirit)
    • Festers if not stored properly (DS9 Novel: Mission Gamma: This Gray Spirit)

Pyrellian ginger tea

  • Drink (DS9: "Necessary Evil"; DS9 Novel: Mission Gamma: Cathedral)
    • Expensive or difficult to obtain (DS9: "Necessary Evil")

Q'babi juice

  • Fruit juice (SCE Short Story: "Home Fires")
  • Said to help with nausea, space sickness (SCE Short Story: "Home Fires")

Q'lava

  • Fruit (DS9: "The Ship"; DS9 Novel: Mission Gamma: This Gray Spirit)
    • Potentially native to Gamma Quadrant (DS9 Novel: Mission Gamma: This Gray Spirit)

Rellian beef

  • Variety of beef (DS9 Short Story: "The Music Between the Notes")

Sknort casserole

  • Food (TNG Novel: Q & A)

Talerian fizz

  • Light-green alcoholic beverage (TNG Novel: A Time to Love)

Tarkalian coffee

  • Off planet variety of coffee (VOY Novel: Mosaic)

Tarkovian broadleaf salad

  • Green salad (TTN Novel: Taking Wing)

Yasti pudding

Yigrish cream pie

  • Dessert of unknown origin (DS9: "Distant Voices"; SCE Short Story: "Home Fires")
  • Purple cream (SCE Short Story: "Home Fires")