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fresh food

fresh food

8 1.0
Food that is recently grown or prepared and not kept for a long time
  • noun
  • /frɛʃ fud/
translation icon : comida fresca
  • Eating fresh food is important for maintaining a healthy diet.
  • eat fresh food
  • healthy fresh food
  • farm-fresh food

But yeah, try to focus on fresh food if you can.

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Examples

  • Yohay's Cityscape Farms continues to work to produce great-tasting fresh food for local buyers with its hydroponic greenhouses.

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  • There's fresh food in the kitchen.

  • We need more fresh food, more closer to cities.

  • But yeah, try to focus on fresh food if you can.

  • It's nice to have some fresh food on the table from time to time.

  • Just keep looking for ways to make good fresh food eating a way of life.

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  • Also, the food desert situation in our nation makes living on fresh food a struggle for some.

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  • Another woman who comes each week has lost weight by incorporating more fresh foods into her diet.

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  • There is something incredibly satisfying and nurturing about putting fresh food away for winter.

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  • Many people buy processed food because they see fresh food as unattainable and unaffordable.

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Synonyms

fresh foods
vsfresh food
1 1.0

Food that is recently picked or made and not kept to last long

is the same idea but expressed as a singular term without the timing detail

How Fresh

fresh food
8 1.0
frozen food
4 1.3
canned food
11 1.0

Surface Forms

fresh food singular
fresh foods plural

Morphology

fresh + food

The meaning 'food that has not been preserved' is directly and compositionally derived from the adjective 'fresh' (recently produced/unspoiled) modifying the noun 'food'. This ADJ+NOUN pattern is a basic, cross-linguistically common construction, so a B1 learner who knows both words will readily understand the MWE.

Etymology

Fresh food comes from the image of food that was just picked, caught, or cooked, with fresh meaning newly gathered and food meaning what we eat. So fresh food means food eaten soon after it is made and 'not kept for a long time'.