Meaning

1 senses

  1. (countable, uncountable)Food that is unprocessed and unrefined, or processed or refined as little as possible.

    Unpolished grains that retained their outer coating were a major linchpin of his diet of whole foods.

Examples

3 sentences

  1. We don't have a whole lot of food.

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  2. I don't think it's very healthy to cut out whole groups of foods like fats.

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  3. Mary bought some dinosaur kale at Whole Foods.

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Forms

plural: whole foods

Lessons for this word

1 lessons

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
whoeverB1wholeA2wholeheartedlywholemealwholesale

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