Definition of health food in US English:
health food
nounˈhelTH ˌfo͞odˈhɛlθ ˌfud
Natural food that is thought to have health-giving qualities.
Example sentencesExamples
- I failed miserably at getting my husband, who at the best of times is not a fan of health food, to order anything beyond his hummus.
- A ‘doorstep’ of moist, succulent wholemeal bread is considered the ultimate health food.
- Using Chinese herbal medicine as food supplements or health food is very popular.
- The makers of this particular brand of health food created a series of similar advertisements.
- We went back a couple of more times, but we soon realized we were coming back with more junk than health food.
- The idea that chocolate could be health food seems too good to be true.
- The next several days passed in a blur of meditation and health food and talk.
- That last remark brought to mind a time when Hannah cleared out my whole fridge and filled it with health food.
- The drugs were stashed inside a package of health food addressed to a prisoner in Frankland Prison, County Durham.
- In reality, this is a gorgeous dessert masquerading as health food.
- Well, there is the tree and cardboard school of health food, which all of us are familiar with.
- The food here is good, but the canteen is really bad: health food and stuff like that.
- Big Food has had to find more tricks to transform the humble soy bean into a seductive health food.