List of 30 Letter X Foods Ideas (Kid Friendly) & X Foods Charcuterie Board Idea

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Here’s the deal, Letter X foods have had me stumped for a good long time. I want an easy, kid friendly list and Xanthan gum just wasn’t cutting it for me. I looked up a few other foods like Xtra Gum, and a Xtreme type foods, but it was still a painfully short list.

From there I branched out, and if you look at different languages you can get a few more foods that start with X, especially the chinese names of things. So I created a much longer list that includes foods in different languages, but having taught Joy School for a few of my kids and worked with toddlers and preschoolers learning there letters all I could think was that throwing foods in different languages at them really wasn’t going to be super fun or helpful for learning a new letter.

After a lot of thought (like 6 months, lol) I realized that just as good as foods starting with Letter X, my kids would be equally excited about just eating Letter X shaped foods… which, as it happens, are a lot easier to come by (at least for me) so for this Charcuterie Board I ditched the foods that started with Letter X, and instead my kids and I had a great time making Letter X’s out of foods (which as it happens was a really fun activity – we used lots of strait foods and held them together with either Twizzlers Pull and Peel licorice, or small strips and globs of Fruit By The Foot – My kids would 100% recommend this)

In either case I have two list below, a list of strait foods that I think can be made into Letter X’s and a list of food that actually start with Letter X, most of them in languages other than English.

I’m sure I missed a few Letter X foods, or straight foods that could be converted into X’s, and if you notice that I have please comment below and I’ll be sure to get them added 🙂

I’ve got the list of foods that can be shaped into a Letter X first, then the full list of Letter X Food, and after that I’ve sorted the foods into types and if you want you can just pop to those sections. The types are:

• Fruits and Vegetables that Start with X

• Sweets and Treats that Start with X

• Meals and Snacks That Start with X

• Letter X Brand Named Foods

Ideas of Foods that Can Be Shaped Into a Letter X

Airhead Xtremes Rainbow Belt Candies
Artisan Bread (I found some with an X shape in the top)
Asparagus
Bamboo Shoots
Bread Sticks
Carrot Sticks
Celery
Cheese Sticks
Churos
Cucumbers
Fruit Roll-Ups
Green Beans
Honey Sticks
Ladyfinger Cookies
Lora Doone Cookies (have a bit of an x shape imprinted on the top)
Lucky Charm Cereal Pieces (Some of them are X shaped)
Nerds Ropes
Pasta Noodles
Pickels
Pirouette Cookies
Pocky Sticks
Pretzels
Slim Jims
Soybeans (Edamame)
String Cheese
Sugar Snap Peas
Sweet and Sour Ropes
Taquitos
Twizzlers
Twizzlers Pull and Peel
Wafter Cookies
X shaped Alphabet Cookies
Zucchini Strips

List of 30 Foods That Start With Letter X

Airhead Xtremes Rainbow Belt Candys: Colorful and tangy candy strips
Xacuti masala: Indian delicacy made with marinated meat or fish mixed with spices
Xalwa a somali: Cornflour paste dish from Somalia
Xanthan gum: Food thickener with multiple uses
Xanthren: Herbal plant
Xavier soup: Classic Italian soup
Xavier steak: American dish featuring steak
Xerem de Fiesta: Cape Verdean dish
Xia: Chinese shrimp
Xiang Cai: Chinese for coriander
Xiangcaojing: Chinese for vanilla
Xiangchang: Chinese for sausage
Xiangjiao: Chinese for banana
Xian hamburger: Chinese style hamburger
Xianrou: Chinese for bacon
Xiaodianxin: Chinese for cookies
Xiaonijurou: Chinese for veal
Xi gua: Chinese for watermelon
Xihongshi: Chinese for tomato
Xi mi fen: Chinese for tapioca flour
Xinag jun: Chinese for black dried mushroom
Xingzi: Chinese for apricot
Xiphios: Greek for swordfish
Xocolatl: Ancient Aztec word for chocolate
Xom Tum: Hot and spicy Thai dish
XO sauce: Hong Kong style sauce
Xouba: Small sardine like fish
Xtra: Brand of gum
Xtreme Candy: Extra intense candy
Xtreme hot sauce: Extremely spicy hot sauce
Xylitol: Sugar substitute and sweetener

Fruits, Nuts and Vegetables That Start With Letter X

Xanthren (herb)
Xiangjiao – Chinese for banana
Xi gua – Chinese for watermelon
Xihongshi – Chinese for tomato
Xinag jun – Chinese for black dried mushroom
Xingzi – Chinese for apricot

Sweets And Treats That Start With Letter X

Airhead Xtremes Rainbow Belt Candys
Xiaodianxin – Chinese for cookies
Xocolatl – Ancient Aztec for chocolate
Xtra – (brand of gum)
Xtreme Candy

Meals and Snacks that Start with Letter X

Xacuti masala (Indian delicacy prepared with marinated meat or fish and mixed spices)
Xavier soup (classic Italian soup)
Xavier steak (American steak dish)
Xerem de Fiesta (dish from Cape Verde, Africa)
Xia – Chinese shrimp
Xiangchang – Chinese for sausage
Xian hamburger
Xianrou – Chinese for bacon
Xiaonijurou – Chinese for veal
Xiphios – Greek for swordfish
Xom Tum – Hot and spicy Thai dish