health food
nounDefinition of health food
: a food promoted as highly conducive to health
Examples of health food in a Sentence
He eats only health food.
She shops at the health-food store.
The restaurant offers a variety of health foods.
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Owned and operated by a warm, earth mother type named Rebecca Raspberry, who worked for 14 years at House of Ghandi, her father’s health food store in Chicago, Vibrations feels like equal parts lunch counter and social center. — New York Times, "Welcome to America’s Newest National Park. Don’t Mind the Power Plant.," 17 July 2019 Other sources were family and friends, flea markets, pet stores, health food stores and online venues. — Minali Nigam, CNN, "People in the United States are misusing antibiotics, study says," 25 July 2019 The metaphor is alive and well today, appearing everywhere from newspapers, Legos, and a health food brand name to social media, and, of course, the Lion King reboot. — Keith Ladzinski, National Geographic, "The ‘balance of nature’ is an enduring concept. But it’s wrong.," 26 July 2019 For serious health food enthusiasts, there is the juice pharmacy, which has drinks for different medical conditions, such as high blood pressure, colds, weight loss, detox cleanse and more. — Karen Pilarski, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, "R&R Poké, offering Hawaiian-style raw fish and rice bowls, to open up in Wauwatosa soon," 29 June 2018 The Bronzeville native took up running in the 1980s and, during the transition, started wandering into health food stores and researching holistic living. — Darcel Rockett, chicagotribune.com, "4 Chicago area seniors challenge traditional retirement, in the recording studio and beyond," 17 June 2019 It’s being sold in health food stores and sports shops under a cloud. — George Skelton, The Mercury News, "Skelton: Why California needs to legalize hemp," 4 June 2019 On the outskirts of Chinatown, in the area of the Lower East Side known as Dimes Square—named for the Canal Street café that slings nouveau health food for scraggle-chic locals—another business was recently preparing to open shop. — Naomi Fry, The New Yorker, "What Is It with Millennials and Cactuses?," 24 June 2019 That is to say: Dragonfruit is the new buzzy ingredient in quasi-health foods, appreciated more for its novelty than its taste. — Maura Judkis, Washington Post, "The new Starbucks dragonfruit drink tastes like — oh, who cares? It’s pink!," 18 June 2019These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'health food.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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