edible
n.n. safe or good enough to eat. You use this to describe things that are not poisonous and can be digested.
n. fit to be eaten as food; non-toxic and safe for human consumption.
Many wild mushrooms are not edible and can be dangerous.
The chef decorated the wedding cake with edible flowers that were grown specifically for cooking.
While the berries of the plant are technically edible, their bitter taste and tough texture make them unappealing for most culinary applications.
From Late Latin edibilis, from Latin edō (“eat”). Doublet of eatable.
Typically used as a predicative adjective after a linking verb or as an attributive adjective before a noun.
The food was very eatable.The food was edible.While 'eatable' exists, 'edible' is the standard term for food that is safe to consume; 'eatable' often implies the food tastes good enough to eat.