5 letter word

[mastercontrol]

recently abdullah posted a topic abt somthing awesome but it got erased by the recent overnight coruption
so here i post it again and this time i know the answer

i am a word of 5 letters, people eat me.
if you remove my 1st letter i will be form of energy,
if you remove my 1st 2 letters i will be needed 4 living,
if you remove my 1st 3 letters i will be near u!
if you remove my 1st 4 letters i will be a drink 4u.

who am i?

[prossett]

You promise you know the answer?

[abdullah]

hey dudu whts the answer.......let me correct u if wre wrong

[prossett]

LMAO - you had me laughing last time, after all that thinking I put in!!!

Classic: I dunno, I asked so I could find out the answer from you guys!!!!!

[studboy_441]

if you remove my 1st 4 letters i will be a drink 4u.

who am i?

its something ending with ****T (Tea)

[Alpha]

It was "Wheat".

[turrbo]

yup.
btw repost.abdullah u posted this before also
viewtopic.php?f=19&t=3785