"The food is for the judges."

Translation: Het eten is voor de rechters.

[WordFitlySpoken]

Voedsel? What?

[Brijsven]

There are actually several terms that refer to food:

• het eten - the dominant word for food

• het voedsel - a bit less colloquial and a bit more formal than het eten

• de kost - not very common

• de spijs - usually found in compound words where it does not translate to 'food' (e.g. de spijskaart (menu)). There are some other uses for it. Spijzen (foods) is very high style.

• het voer/voeder - rather archaic; primarily used when concerning animals (e.g. honde(n)voer (dog food)).

[ruler14222]

"de spijskaart" must be more Flemish as I have only heard it used once in my 20 year life in the Netherlands.
important typo in hondeNvoer (because you can have multiple dogs)

[tbs_]

when you hover over "the" then it shows the wrong "het" and not "de" O.o

[PinalDesai1]

Why de rechters? Previously, we left out the 'the' before the profession

[Pieter235124]

It seems here the food is earmarked for a specific set of judges, not judges in general.