real food
- noun
- /riːəl fuːd/
- Eating more real food, like fruits and vegetables, can improve your health.
- Eat real food
- get real food
- taste real food
But for most people, just eating mostly real food is the best thing to do.
- But for most people, just eating mostly real food is the best thing to do.
- So the two key points here are eat unprocessed real food as local as possible.
- I would say eat food, just eat real food that's been unprocessed.
- They're quote made from scratch, real food meals.
- So it's real food, not too much, and it is mostly plants.
- So the the simple rule is eat real food.
- So, so that's another way that that supplements and real food differ as you get these phytonutrients.
- You need to eat the food that feeds it, meaning fiber, real food, not ultra processed food.
- And there was one dish in the menu which I would classify as real food, the Bombay Bowl, right?
- I think one thing to remember the common principle is eat real food.
- No, no, they basically have a diet that's super rich in simple whole real foods.
- These potato chips and things always contain these glues to make make it look like real food.
- And what you really need to do is eat more protein, more fiber, more real foods and less of that ultra processed crap.
Examples
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But for most people, just eating mostly real food is the best thing to do.
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You're gonna have to eat some real food today, you know.
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Do we have any real food in this house?
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So we can have real food more often.
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I want some real food.
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We need some real food down here, food that kids will eat.
Fiction book (1995) -
There are so many creative ways to use real foods in a fun way.
Blog text (7) -
So the two key points here are eat unprocessed real food as local as possible.
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Now I am trying to find a balance of eating real food and training for a half-marathon.
Blog text (30) -
I would say eat food, just eat real food that's been unprocessed.
Synonyms
Food that is good for your body and often natural or not processed
Food that is recently grown or prepared and not kept for a long time
How Natural
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly built from the constituents: 'real' (genuine, not artificial) combined with 'food' yields the idea of genuine/natural food rather than processed products. This compositional logic is straightforward and cross-linguistically common, so a B1 learner who knows both words would readily infer the intended sense.
Etymology
The phrase real food comes from using real to mean 'genuine' and food to mean what we eat, creating a clear picture of fresh vegetables, meat, and simple meals not made in a factory. So real food now means natural, whole, and nutritious food rather than processed products.