health food

See also: healthfood

English

Alternative forms

• healthfood

Noun

health food (countable and uncountable, plural health foods)

1. Any food that is considered to be especially beneficial to health.

   Coordinate term: junk food

   • 1979, Rupert Holmes (lyrics and music), “Escape (The Piña Colada Song)”, in Partners in Crime:

     Yes, I like piña coladas / And gettin' caught in the rain / I'm not much into health food / I am into champagne

Translations

food

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 健康食品 (zh) (jiànkāng shípǐn), 保健食品 (bǎojiàn shípǐn)

• Finnish: terveysuoka
• Spanish: comida saludable f
• Swedish: hälsokost (sv) c

References

• “health food”, in Cambridge English Dictionary, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Cambridge University Press, 1999–present.
• “health food”, in Collins English Dictionary.
• “health food”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
• “health food”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.