clean eating

[ kleen ee-ting ]

noun

1. the dietary practice of reducing one’s consumption of processed and refined foods in favor of whole foods, as a means to promote or sustain good health:

   The recipe for this fresh, organic salsa is in her book about clean eating.

Word History and Origins

Origin of clean eating¹

First recorded in 2005–10

Example Sentences

At the time, her posts mostly criticized the food industry and promoted clean eating.

From Outside Online

A 2020 cross-sectional survey of 1,266 young adults published in the journal Nutrients found that over half the participants had heard of clean eating and thought of it as healthy, but that their definitions of clean were all over the place.

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