How to Use health food in a Sentence

health food

noun
Definition of health foodnext
  • She shops at the health-food store.
  • He eats only health food.
  • The restaurant offers a variety of health foods.
  • Worse, they’re often marketed as health foods, though their consumption continues to be linked to chronic inflammation and poor health outcomes.
    — Dr. Uma Naidoo, Contributor, CNBC, 7 Sep. 2024
  • Nooch is easy to find at grocery and health food stores.
    — Jane Black, WSJ, 20 Oct. 2021
  • This isn’t some kind of health food store hippie hokum.
    — Tim MacWelch, Outdoor Life, 13 Mar. 2020
  • That’s what people did back then; that was health food.
    — Ashley Weatherford, The Cut, 10 Apr. 2018
  • Lake's first sales were through a local health food store.
    — Jaime Stathis, Wired, 31 Jan. 2022
  • Flaxseed can be found in most grocery health food aisles.
    — Ann Maloney, NOLA.com, 2 June 2017
  • It’s being sold in health food stores and sports shops under a cloud.
    — George Skelton, The Mercury News, 4 June 2019
  • Basinger recalled being in a health food store one day.
    — Lexy Perez, The Hollywood Reporter, 27 Apr. 2022
  • Kombucha is the beverage of choice for many health food lovers.
    — Elise Deming, Rdn, Philly.com, 15 Dec. 2017
  • The main drag is filled with Rasta murals, herbalists, and health food shops.
    — Hedley Twidle, Harper's Magazine, 23 Nov. 2021
  • Or, check the health food section of your local grocery store.
    — Joey Skladany, Better Homes & Gardens, 6 June 2022
  • Light buckwheat flour or sorghum flour can be found at health food stores or online.
    — Washington Post, 10 Dec. 2021
  • The best thing to do is take your monthly prescription into a health food store and ask for it there.
    — Amber Smith, Discover Magazine, 16 Dec. 2022
  • When purchasing from a health food store, make sure to look for a reputable brand and check the product's dosage and type of CBD.
    — Amber Smith, Discover Magazine, 28 Feb. 2023
  • But a new lawsuit claims Pop-Tarts are masquerading as a health food.
    — Alexis Benveniste, CNN, 26 Oct. 2021
  • At one point, Haff, who used to own a health food store in Oregon, questioned the very nature of the pandemic.
    — Ryan Kost, San Francisco Chronicle, 8 May 2022
  • With a new year on the horizon, there are a bunch of incoming health food trends to get excited about.
    — Audrey Bruno, SELF, 11 Dec. 2018
  • If there was once a wall between health food and serious cooking, it’s been kicked in.
    — Mari Uyehara, WSJ, 14 Sep. 2017
  • Our mother would get us baked teriyaki tofu from the health food store as a special treat.
    — Samin Nosrat, New York Times, 11 Jan. 2018
  • Buy them right on Amazon or find them at your local grocery or health food store.
    — Stephanie Eckelkamp, Good Housekeeping, 23 Mar. 2017
  • Like people that get too crazy about health food or dietary stuff and remove the love of eating, which is the whole point of living.
    — Kevin Nguyen, GQ, 11 Apr. 2018
  • The health food store bulk-bin staple has a golden-yellow color and is available in small and large flakes.
    — Audrey Bruno, SELF, 17 July 2021
  • There won’t be a time when alcohol becomes health food.
    — Cara Rosenbloom, sacbee, 26 Sep. 2017
  • Be warned, like most delicious comfort food, this is not health food.
    — Dana McMahan, The Courier-Journal, 27 Sep. 2022
  • Creators of ‘Farmacy for Life’ hip-hop’s first health food store, Styles P, and his wife married in 1995.
    — Dominique Fluker, Essence, 4 July 2023
  • Emu oil can be purchased online, at a health food store, or directly from a farmer.
    — Elizabeth Barnes, Verywell Health, 28 Feb. 2024
  • It can also be purchased online from health food stores and specialty spice shops.
    — Lindsey Desoto, Health, 31 July 2024

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