health food

noun

1. any natural food popularly believed to promote or sustain good health, as by containing vital nutrients, being grown without the use of pesticides, or having a low sodium or fat content.

health food

noun

1. 1. vegetarian food organically grown and with no additives, eaten for its dietary value and benefit to health

   2. ( as modifier )

      a health-food shop

Word History and Origins

Origin of health food¹

First recorded in 1880–85

Example Sentences

For years they've been a familiar sight in the aisles of health food stores, but more recently they've been cropping up in high street coffee shops too.

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Ultimately, he and his second wife — the love of his life over a more than 50-year marriage — opened a small health food store on Wilshire Boulevard in Santa Monica called Healthy for You.

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But having fuelled a bad habit in China, it now wants to promote a health food there, hoping in the process to acquire the status of Africa's blueberry capital.

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The company got its start in the 1960s as a health foods store in Boston before relocating to the West Coast.

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He’d found a job at a health food store, but couldn’t keep it.

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