clean eating

[kleen ee-ting]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

the dietary practice of reducing one’s consumption of processed and refined foods in favor of whole foods, as a means to promote or sustain good health.
The recipe for this fresh, organic salsa is in her book about clean eating.

Discover More

Word History and Origins

Origin of clean eating¹

First recorded in 2005–10

Discover More

Example Sentences

Examples have not been reviewed.

Her anorexia spiralled from clean eating she believed was healthy.

From

In a world that prizes “clean eating,” orthorexia thrives, often hiding in plain sight.

From

It’s not a “clean eating” book in that weird, rigid way.

From

Luckily, the same system that instigated mass disease and physical and psychic atrophy can invent a market for “clean eating,” the branded backlash against factory farming’s poisoning and genetic modification of your food and soil and water and air.

From

And sure, you may be able to get through a week or so, but you will get so bored that I guarantee you'll run right back towards that greasy pizza — and there's nothing wrong with that, outside of forgetting the reason why you tried clean eating in the first place.

From

clean-cut clean energy

Browse