Food & Drink
Food & Drink covers 132 emoji on EmojiSelect, from the fruit bowl to the champagne glass. The Unicode subcategories order it into fruit, vegetables, prepared food, Asian dishes, sweets and desserts, drinks, and dishware — a layout that makes the category as useful for browsing a menu vocabulary as for decorating a message.
About this category
Food emoji are the workhorses of plans and cravings. They appear in restaurant plans, recipe shares, diet talk and a thousand regional memes — the 🍍 in a conversation about hospitality, the 🥑 in breakfast photos, the 🍩 that means a cheat day. Some have grown second meanings that have little to do with eating, and where that is true we say so plainly on the emoji's page, with the context needed to use it safely.
The 132 entries here are grouped by course on our browse page — fruit, vegetables, prepared food, Asian dishes, sweets, drinks and dishware — and every item links to the combos built around it, so a single 🍓 leads straight to the dessert pairings people actually send.
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Prepared food
34 Emoji
Fruit
20 Emoji
Vegetables
20 Emoji
Drinks
20 Emoji
Asian food
17 Emoji
Sweets
14 Emoji
Dishware
7 Emoji
Why it matters
The category's practical strength is combination. Food emoji are rarely sent alone: they chain into order lists, menus and recipes. Our combo pages surface the popular pairings — 🍕🌮🍣 for a food night, 🎂🎉 for birthdays — and the copy button grabs whole sequences at once. The food shelf also keeps growing: Emoji 13.0 (2020) added blueberries 🫐, bubble tea 🧋 and olives 🫒, so regional cooking has a richer vocabulary than ever.
Highlights
Fruit and vegetables: 🍓🍋🥑 are staples of health and mood talk, with well-known metaphorical uses documented.
Prepared food: 🍕🍔🍜 lead the most-copied meal emoji, and Asian dishes add the widest regional variety.
Drinks: ☕🍺🍹 anchor morning, evening and celebration messages respectively.
Dishware and extras: 🍽️🥢🧂 round out tables and recipes, and the clinking glasses 🥂 have become the default toast for everything from promotions to New Year.
How people use them
Inviting to dinner: "Sushi tonight? 🍣"
Sharing a celebration menu: 🎂 with 🍾.
Describing the weather's mood: a hot day is simply ☀️🥵, a cozy one 🍵.
Reacting to a delicious photo: 🤤 followed by the dish emoji itself.