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Fool Medammas refers to an Egyptian dish usually eaten as breakfast food that is made with fava beans, diced tomatoes, chopped onions, herbs and spices, such as cumin powder, pepper, parley, olive oil and salt. Fool Medammas is generally eaten with Pita bread.

Favata di Fave refers to Sardinian dish made of fava beans stewed with pork rind, sausage, wild herbs and cabbage.

Favollo (Eriphia verrucosa) is the Italian word for warty crab, a variety of crab found throughout the Mediterranean Sea, also in the eastern Atlantic from the southern coast of Brittany to Mauritania and the Azores. Favollo has a thick carapace, slightly convex upper face, smooth, and with transverse ridges behind the frontal border and the lateral regions. Strong asymmetric chelipeds. Female has a large oval abdomen, while the male’s is narrow. Brownish-red or brownish-green in colour, with yellow spots. Favollo's flesh is aromatic and tasty, but few. However, it is a good ingredient for fish or seafood soups.

Fehér is the Hungarian word for "white" and is used as a prefix or to describe various food items, such as Fehér Eper (white mulberry) and Fehér Retek (white radish) Fehér is pronounced "fey-hair".

Fehér Retek is the Hungarian term for "White Radish", a kind of vegetable mostly made into a salad. White radishes are available in the markets in spring. Fehér Retek is also called Sörretek or Vajretek in Hungarian. In Hungary, Fehér means white and Retek means Radish.

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