health food

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   any natural or prepared food popularly believed to promote good health

   Broaderfood

Questions about health food

What does health food mean?

health food means "any natural or prepared food popularly believed to promote good health".

Is health food a common word?

health food is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.