Superfood
noun
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 Any food purported to confer remarkable health benefits.
"Superfoods include many different food choices, which make going on the superfood diets so easy because you have a big variety to choose from for your meals. It does not matter which of the superfoods you eat, you can gain the nutrients […]"
- 2 a food with health benefits wordnet
- 3 Any food which provides a very concentrated source of protein, fats, or other nutritional necessities.
"The foremost reason a food is considered a superfood is because of nutrient density, which is the percentage of nutrients in a food compared to the number of calories."
Example
More examples"Kale has been called a superfood."
Etymology
From super- + food.
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