health food
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3.4
- noun
- /hɛlθ fud/
:
alimento saludable
- After learning about nutrition, she began to eat more health food like whole grains and fresh vegetables.
- health food store
I mean, there's so many health claim, health foods that claim to be healthy that are clearly not.
- I mean, there's so many health claim, health foods that claim to be healthy that are clearly not.
- And they were actually funding studies showing that alcohol was a health food.
- And even if they think it's health food, it's actually this, this cycle that we're perpetuating.
- Wheat, rice, oats, corn, all the other grains are not normal natural ancestral health foods.
- If you're buying packaged hummus in the health food store, probably not that healthy, right?
- I've even seen hemp seed milk at the health food store.
- And now I'm even seeing in health food stores packs of organic sprouting seeds and sections.
- I mean that that's sort of the health food craze was taking off natural Expo W big trade show for this was just out of control.
- I went over to the health food store and I came out with a bottle of tea tree oil and a business card.
Examples
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I have worked in a co-op grocery and a couple of health food stores.
Blog text (7) -
The Japanese have a health food called natto.
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I, I got a job at a health food store for a while.
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It's been sold out of my local health food store for like months.
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I mean, it was at the health food store.
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You ordered the health food?
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It's supposed to be health food.
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I suppose you eat health food.
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You can get it at the health food store.
Fiction book (1997) -
You see them in health food stores.
Synonyms
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2.8
Food that comes from plants or animals and is not made in factories
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3.9
A food very high in vitamins and minerals that helps keep you healthy
How Healthy
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'food considered good for one's health' is directly and transparently derived from combining 'health' (state of being free from illness) with 'food' (substance consumed), forming a noun–noun compound meaning food beneficial to health. This compositional logic is cross‑linguistically common (e.g. Spanish 'comida saludable'), so a B1 learner who knows both words will readily infer the MWE's meaning.
Etymology
Health food comes from the simple picture of food made to help the body, like fresh fruit, grains, or plain meals sold in early shops for people who wanted to get well. The two words health and food give the literal idea of food that helps you 'be healthy', so today it means food people think is especially good for their health.