"Mięso to jedzenie."
Translation:Meat is food.
December 30, 2015
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If you have an "X is Y" sentence and both X and Y are noun phrases - yes, the constructions are interchangeable. With "to", Y stays in Nominative, with "jest" (and its forms), Y changes to Instrumental.
If Y was an adjective, the only option is "jest", but Y stays in Nominative.
For (a lot) more info, you can read here: https://www.duolingo.com/comment/16373167