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any natural or prepared food popularly believed to promote good health
any substance that can be metabolized by an animal to give energy and build tissue (同)nutrient
anything that provides mental stimulus for thinking (同)food for thought, intellectual nourishment
any solid substance (as opposed to liquid) that is used as a source of nourishment; "food and drink" (同)solid food
a healthy state of wellbeing free from disease; "physicians should be held responsible for the health of their patients" (同)wellness
the general condition of body and mind; "his delicate health"; "in poor health"
get healthy again; "The wound is healing slowly"

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〈U〉『食物』,栄養物 / 〈U〉(飲み物に対して)食べ物 / 〈C〉(特定の種類の)固形食品 / 〈U〉(動植物に)栄養を余えるもの / 〈U〉《比喩(ひゆ)的に》(心・精神の活動を刺激・奨励する)糧(かて);(思考・反省などの)資料
『健康』,健全 / (体の)状態,調子 / 《To one's health!》(健康を祝しての)乾杯
〈傷など〉‘を'直す / 〈悩み・不和など〉‘を'いやす,治める / 〈傷などが〉直る《+『up』(over』)》

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Health food is food considered beneficial to health in ways that go beyond a normal healthy diet required for human nutrition. Because there is no precise, authoritative definition from regulatory agencies such as the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, different dietary practices can be considered healthy depending on context.

Foods marketed as "healthy" may be natural foods, organic foods, whole foods, and sometimes vegetarian or dietary supplements. Such products are sold in health food stores or in the health/organic sections of supermarkets.

Health claims

In the United States, health-related claims on nutrition facts labels are regulated by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), while advertising is regulated by the Federal Trade Commission.

According to the FDA, "Health claims describe a relationship between a food, food component, or dietary supplement ingredient, and reducing risk of a disease or health-related condition".^[1]

In general, claims of health benefits for specific foodstuffs have not been evaluated by national regulatory agencies. Additionally, research funded by manufacturers or marketers that may form the basis of such marketing claims has been shown to result in more favorable results than independently funded research.^[2]

While there is no precise definition for "health food", the United States Food and Drug Administration has warned food manufacturers against labeling foods as being "healthy" when they have a high sugar, salt, or fat content.^[3]

Examples

Fruit Juice Smoothie preparation

The following is a non-exhaustive list of foods that have been considered healthy:

Apple cider vinegar, a fruit vinegar considered a health food
Broccoli sprouts
Certain cereal products:
- Corn flakes, patented food invented in 1894
- Digestive biscuit, English baked good from 1851, containing fiber and sometimes sodium bicarbonate
- Graham cracker, cracker made with whole grain Graham flour (1829)
- Graham bread, a type of whole wheat bread
- Granola, a food made from mixed, toasted grains
- Granula, the first manufactured breakfast cereal (1863)
- Grape-Nuts, an American breakfast cereal made from baked and ground grain (1897)
- Muesli, breakfast cereal of rolled oats, fruit and nuts, made by a Swiss doctor (1900)
- Shredded wheat, whole wheat cereal (1893)
Eggplant, hosts of vitamin and minerals, and also contains important phytonutrients
Herbal extract, plants, often medicinal that are concentrated and standardized
Herbal teas
Honey, a naturally occurring whole sweetener
Malt, whole sprouted barley
Meat analogue, a dietary alternative to meat, found in some vegetarian and vegan diets^[4]
Molasses, black strap molasses has been sold as a health food
Certain oils, including olive oil and fish oil
Postum, a coffee alternative from 1895^[5]
Yogurt, traditional cultured milk product

References

^ "Claims That Can Be Made for Conventional Foods and Dietary Supplements". U.S. Food and Drug Administration. September 2003. Retrieved 7 November 2010.
^ Lenard I. Lesser; Cara B. Ebbeling; Merrill Goozner; David Wypij; David S. Ludwig (January 9, 2007). "Relationship between Funding Source and Conclusion among Nutrition-Related Scientific Articles". PLoS Medicine. 4 (1): e5. doi:10.1371/journal.pmed.0040005. Retrieved November 1, 2010. Industry funding of nutrition-related scientific articles may bias conclusions in favor of sponsors' products, with potentially significant implications for public health.
^ FDA to beef up standards for "health" food labeling, Scientific American
^ Messina, Ginny. Healthy Vegan Diets Can Include Meat Analogues - The Vegan R.D.
^ Pendergrast, Mark (2010) [2001]. Uncommon Grounds: The History of Coffee and How It Transformed Our World (Rev. ed.). New York City: Basic Books. ISBN 9780465018369. OCLC 609871227.

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