Alt Code Shortcuts for Food and Drink Emoji

On daily life, we use different types of food items like vegetables and fruits. Do you ever wonder how to insert these food item symbols on your documents? These food and drink items are part of Unicode emoji symbols and you can do this using alt key shortcuts on your keyboard. Here is a complete list of alt code shortcuts for food and drink emoji symbols. If you are looking for inserting other emoji symbols in Windows PC, check our 1000+ alt code shortcuts for emoji symbols.

Food and Drink Emoji Categories

Unicode has more than 100 food and drink emoji symbols under “Food & Drink” category. These symbols are available between the codepoint U+1F347 to U+1F3FA and divided into the following groups.

• Fruit – 19 emoji
• Vegetables – 18 emoji
• Prepared food – 34 emoji
• Asian food – 17 emoji
• Marine food – 5 emoji
• Sweets – 14 emoji
• Drinks – 20 emoji
• Dishware – 7 emoji

Note that some of the food emoji symbols are newly introduced and not yet supported by all browsers and other applications.

Alt Code Shortcuts for Food Emoji

Alt + Code Method – hold alt key and enter the decimal code in the below table using numeric pad on your keyboard. For example, alt + 127848 will produce the ice cream symbol like 🍨. This will work on all documents like Excel, Word and PowerPoint.

Alt + X Method – enter the hexadecimal code in the below table and then press alt and x keys. For example, 1F36D + alt + x will make lollipop symbol like 🍭. This method will work only in Word documents.

Inserting Food Emoji Symbols

Most of the food symbols are part of Unicode emoji symbols which you can insert using emoji keyboard in Windows or Character Viewer app in Mac.

Emoji Keyboard in Windows – Press “Win + ;” keys to open emoji keyboard. Click on the smiley icon to open emoji symbols available under different categories. Now, click pizza icon on the bottom to filter “Food and plants” emoji symbols. Find your favorite emoji and click on the symbol to insert in your documents. Alternatively, you can also type “food” in the search box to filter the related emojis.

Using Character Viewer in Mac – press “Control + Command + Space” to open Character Viewer app. Navigate to “Emoji > Food & Drink” category to find and insert the food emoji symbols.

Symbol Variations

Though food symbols look solid emoji on the browser, you will view the black and white icons on some Windows apps like old Microsoft Word versions. You can format and customize the symbols by changing the color, adding background and changing the font size. Below is an example of some food symbols with custom formatting in Word document.

Cheatsheet for Reference

You can download the cheatsheet for alt code shortcuts for food items and use for offline reference.