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Is it true food that allow microorganisms to grow are called parasites

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False.
A parasite would be the other way around: an organism that lives in or on another organism (its host) and benefits by deriving nutrients at the host's expense.
"Foods" aren't living, so they aren't organisms, meaning they cannot be parasites.
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