How to Use health food in a Sentence

health food

noun
  • She shops at the health-food store.
  • He eats only health food.
  • The restaurant offers a variety of health foods.
  • 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
  • First, early humans didn’t shop at the health foods store or choose foods that best suited their gastrointestinal tracts.
    Sara Novak, Discover Magazine, 30 May 2024

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