whole food diet
Natural ingredients only
A whole food diet emphasizes foods in their natural or minimally processed state—vegetables, fruits, grains, legumes, nuts, and meats rather than packaged or refined products.
The approach prioritizes what something is over what it contains, favoring an apple over apple juice, brown rice over white.
She switched to a whole food diet and stopped buying anything with ingredients she couldn't pronounce.
- organicFrom living matter
- freshNewly made, not stale
- unprocessedNot yet treated
- vegetablesEdible plants, not fruits
- fruitsEdible seed-bearing crops
local produce · grains · natural · clean eating · raw · farm-to-table · nutrient-dense · leafy greens · plant-based · farmers market · grocery haul · legumes · nuts · seeds · minimally processed · nourishing · fiber · gut health
- dietsvegan, ketogenic, vegetarian, keto, paleo
- eating habitsvegetarian, vegan, omnivore, carnivore, pescatarian
- food ethicsethical eating, veganism, ethical sourcing, vegetarianism, cruelty-free