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

He’s built a platform railing against processed food, calling it poison and preaching the gospel of clean eating.

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As the Associated Press reported, the company’s menu doesn’t exactly scream “clean eating.”

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Her anorexia spiralled from clean eating she believed was healthy.

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In a world that prizes “clean eating,” orthorexia thrives, often hiding in plain sight.

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It’s not a “clean eating” book in that weird, rigid way.

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