How are food items/ dishes patented?

Question

The title explains it, also, how does one know if a certain food item has already been patented?

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Answer 1

You can patent a new idea. Considering your history, I’m going to assume you don’t have a new idea. You also can’t patent a “food item”, if there is precedence it just exists. You would need to come up with a new idea to patent it