The stomach will take any food, yet one food is better than another: The first line means “Any kind of food can be eaten” (Good News Translation). The second line does not say whether some foods are better than others because they taste better or because they are healthier. The Hebrew is more specific by saying it is because they taste better. So the second line could be rendered “but some foods taste better than others.”

Quoted with permission from Bullard, Roger A. and Hatton, Howard A. A Handbook on Sirach. (UBS Helps for Translators). New York: UBS, 2008. For this and other handbooks for translators see here.