List of breakfast foods facts for kids

Breakfast is the first meal of the day, usually eaten in the early morning after waking up. It's a super important meal that gives you energy for school, sports, and all your daily adventures. People all over the world enjoy different kinds of breakfast foods. These can include grains like oats and wheat, eggs, meats, fruits, and much more!

Delicious Breakfast Foods from A to Z

A

Aloo paratha is a tasty flatbread from India and Pakistan.

• Ackee and saltfish – This is the national dish of Jamaica. It's made with a fruit called ackee and salted fish.
• Aloo paratha – A yummy flatbread from India and Pakistan, often stuffed with spiced potatoes.
• Apple dumpling – A baked apple wrapped in pastry.
• Arepa – A flat, round bread made from cornmeal, popular in South America.

B

A bowl of Breakfast cereal with milk and fresh raspberries.

• Bacon – A popular crispy meat, often served with eggs.
• Bacon, egg and cheese sandwich – A classic breakfast sandwich.
• Bagel – A chewy, ring-shaped bread roll, often topped with cream cheese.
• Baked beans – Beans cooked in a savory sauce, a common part of a full English breakfast.
• Banana bread – A sweet, moist bread made with mashed bananas.
• Bhatoora – A fluffy, deep-fried bread from northern India.
• Biscuits and gravy – A hearty dish from the Southern United States, with soft biscuits covered in a creamy sausage gravy.
• Boiled egg – An egg cooked in its shell until the yolk and white are firm.
• Bran flakes – A type of breakfast cereal made from wheat bran.
• Bread – A basic food, often toasted for breakfast.
• Breakfast burrito – A tortilla wrapped around eggs, meat, cheese, and other fillings.
• Breakfast cereal – Grains like corn, oats, or rice, often eaten with milk.
• Breakfast sandwich – Any sandwich made with breakfast ingredients.
• Breakfast sausage – Ground meat, usually pork, seasoned and formed into patties or links.
• Brown bread – A type of bread made with whole wheat flour.
• Bubur kacang hijau – A sweet porridge from Indonesia, made with mung beans and coconut milk.

C

An unrolled crêpe with whipped cream and strawberry sauce.

• Calas – A type of fried rice fritter from New Orleans.
• Cereal – A quick and easy breakfast choice.
• Cinnamon roll – A sweet pastry swirled with cinnamon and sugar.
• Coffee cake – A sweet cake, often eaten with coffee.
• Congee – A type of rice porridge, popular in many Asian countries.
• Crêpe – A very thin pancake, often filled with sweet or savory ingredients.
• Croissant – A buttery, flaky pastry from France.
• Crumpet – A small, round griddle cake with a porous texture, usually toasted.
• Cuban bread – A white bread similar to French bread, popular in Cuba and Florida.

D

Diyabath (left) is a traditional breakfast from Sri Lanka.

• Dim sum – A style of Chinese cuisine with small, bite-sized portions of food, often served for breakfast or brunch.
• Dosa – A thin, savory pancake from South India, often served with chutney.
• Doughnut or Donut – A sweet, fried dough pastry.
• Dutch baby pancake – A large, fluffy pancake baked in a skillet.

E

Eggs Benedict is a fancy breakfast dish.

• Egg – A very common breakfast food, prepared in many ways.
• Egg in the basket – A slice of bread with a hole cut out, and an egg cooked inside the hole.
• Egg sandwich – A sandwich with an egg as the main filling.
• Eggs Benedict – A dish with poached eggs, ham or bacon, and hollandaise sauce on an English muffin.
• English muffin – A small, round, flat bread, often toasted.

F

A full English breakfast with lots of different foods.

• French toast – Slices of bread dipped in egg and milk, then fried.
• Fried bread – Bread slices fried until golden.
• Fried egg – An egg cooked in a pan, usually with a runny yolk.
• Frittata – An Italian egg dish similar to an omelette or quiche.
• Frybread – A flat dough, fried or deep-fried, popular in Native American cuisine.
• Full breakfast – A large breakfast with many items, like eggs, bacon, sausage, and toast.

G

Grillades and grits are a Southern U.S. breakfast.

• Granola – A mix of rolled oats, nuts, honey, and sometimes dried fruit, often eaten with yogurt.
• Grits – A porridge made from boiled cornmeal, popular in the Southern United States.

H

Hash with a coddled egg on top.

• Ham – Cured pork, often sliced and served with eggs.
• Ham and eggs – A classic breakfast combination.
• Hash – A dish made with chopped meat, potatoes, and onions, often fried.
• Hash browns – Shredded potatoes, fried until crispy.
• Home fries – Diced or sliced potatoes, fried or baked.
• Huevos rancheros – A Mexican breakfast with fried eggs served on tortillas, topped with salsa.

I

Idli with sambar and coconut chutney.

• Idli – A savory rice cake from Southern India, often eaten for breakfast.
• Irish soda bread – A quick bread made with baking soda instead of yeast.

J

• Jianbing – A traditional Chinese street food, like a savory crepe.
• Johnnycake – A cornmeal flatbread, popular in the Caribbean and parts of the U.S.

K

Kulcha with chole (chickpeas) from India.

• Kedgeree – A British-Indian dish with flaked fish, rice, and hard-boiled eggs.
• Kippers – Smoked herring fish, often eaten for breakfast in the UK.
• Kulcha – A type of leavened bread from Pakistan and India.

L

• Lox – Slices of cured salmon, often served on a bagel with cream cheese.

M

A Turkish breakfast with menemen (left).

• Malasadas – A type of Portuguese doughnut, often coated in sugar.
• Manakish – A Levantine dish similar to pizza, often eaten for breakfast.
• Maple syrup – A sweet syrup made from maple tree sap, often poured over pancakes or waffles.
• Matzah brei – A Jewish breakfast dish made from matzah (unleavened bread) and eggs.
• Menemen – A Turkish dish made with eggs, tomatoes, green peppers, and spices.
• Migas – A dish with scrambled eggs, tortilla strips, and cheese, popular in Mexico and the Southwestern U.S.
• Monkey bread – A sweet, sticky pull-apart bread.
• Muesli – A breakfast mix of rolled oats, nuts, seeds, and dried fruit, often eaten with milk or yogurt.
• Muffin – A small, sweet or savory quick bread.

N

Nasi lemak (center) with fish cake, ikan bilis, egg, and chicken.

• Nasi goreng – A popular fried rice dish from Indonesia, Malaysia, and Singapore.
• Nasi lemak – A fragrant rice dish cooked in coconut milk, a common breakfast in Malaysia and Singapore.
• Nattō – A traditional Japanese food made from fermented soybeans.

O

• Oatmeal – A porridge made from rolled oats, often served with fruit or sweeteners.
• Omelette – A dish made from beaten eggs, cooked in a pan, and often folded around fillings.
• Orange juice – A popular breakfast drink made from oranges.

P

Poached eggs on sourdough bread.

Millet porridge.

• Pain au chocolat – A French pastry similar to a croissant, with chocolate inside.
• Pancake – A flat, round cake made from batter and cooked on a griddle.
• Pandesal – A common breakfast bread in the Philippines.
• Pastry – A baked food made from dough, often sweet.
• Peanut butter – A spread made from ground roasted peanuts.
• Poached egg – An egg cooked by simmering it in water without its shell.
• Pop-Tarts – A brand of pre-baked, toaster pastries.
• Porridge – A dish made by boiling grains (like oats or rice) in water or milk.
• Potato pancake – Grated or ground potatoes mixed with egg and flour, then fried.
• Protein bar – A snack bar high in protein, often eaten for quick energy.
• Puttu – A steamed rice cake from South India and Sri Lanka.

Q

A delicious ham and cheese Quiche.

• Quiche – A savory tart made with a pastry crust filled with eggs, cream, cheese, and other ingredients.
• Quick bread – Breads that use baking powder or soda instead of yeast, so they bake quickly.

R

• Raisin bran – A breakfast cereal with bran flakes and raisins.
• Raisin bread – Bread with raisins baked into it.
• Rice – A staple grain, eaten for breakfast in many cultures.
• Rolled oats – Oats that have been flattened, used for oatmeal.
• Roti canai – A type of flatbread from Malaysia, often eaten with curry.

S

Scrambled eggs with bacon.

• Salmon – A fish, sometimes served smoked for breakfast (like lox).
• Sausage – Ground meat, often pork, seasoned and cooked.
• Scone – A small, often lightly sweetened, baked good.
• Scrambled eggs – Eggs beaten and cooked in a pan until fluffy.
• Shakshouka – A Middle Eastern and North African dish of eggs poached in a spicy tomato sauce.
• Shrimp and grits – A dish from the American South with cooked shrimp and grits.
• Simit – A circular bread, often covered with sesame seeds, from Turkey.
• Smoothie – A blended drink made with fruit, yogurt, and sometimes vegetables.
• Soft-boiled eggs – Eggs cooked so the yolk is still runny.
• Strudel – A layered pastry with a sweet or savory filling.

T

Tamago kake gohan (left) with tsukemono and miso soup.

A toasted English teacake (right) with a caffè mocha.

• Tacos – A Mexican dish with a tortilla folded around a filling.
• Tamago kake gohan – A Japanese breakfast of cooked rice mixed with a raw egg and soy sauce.
• Teacake – A light, sweet bun, often toasted and buttered.
• Toast – Sliced bread browned by heat.
• Toaster Strudels – A brand of frozen pastries designed to be heated in a toaster.
• Tomato omelette – An omelette with tomatoes.

V

• Viennoiserie – Baked goods like croissants and pain au chocolat, often eaten for breakfast.

W

Waffles with fresh strawberries.

• Waffle – A batter-based cake cooked in a waffle iron, creating a grid pattern.
• Weisswurst – A traditional Bavarian sausage, sometimes eaten for breakfast.

X

• Xôi – A savory sticky rice dish from Vietnam.

Y

• Yogurt – A dairy product made by fermenting milk, often eaten with fruit or granola.
• Youtiao – A long, golden-brown, deep-fried dough stick, popular in Chinese cuisine.

Z

• Zucchini bread – A sweet quick bread made with shredded zucchini.

Images for kids

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  Vegan yogurt with blueberries

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  Youtiao

See also

• History of breakfast
• List of breakfast beverages
• List of breakfast cereals
• List of brunch foods