whole food
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of whole food
First recorded in 1955–60
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Make a habit of cooking many of your meals using fresh, whole food ingredients.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 16, 2026
“Protein is vital to the body’s cells, but we may be missing out on other nutrients that we could be getting from a whole food profile,” Ansari said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 28, 2025
Amazon said five of the stores earmarked for closure would be converted in to Whole Foods stores, a fresh and whole food brand which Amazon owns.
From BBC ● Sep. 23, 2025
The FDA agreed that there is “some credible evidence” of benefit of eating yogurt as a whole food, but not because of any particular nutrient in it.
From Seattle Times ● May 6, 2024
There is no other instance on record of the whole food of a people becoming rotten before it was ripe.
From The History of the Great Irish Famine of 1847 (3rd ed.) (1902) With Notices of Earlier Irish Famines by John O'Rourke
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