Healthy Recipes

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.

Examples

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
Yogurt, traditional cultured milk product

Gypsy Boots
Juicing
Muesli belt malnutrition
Patent medicine
Raw foodism
Specialty foods
Sprouting

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".

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 researck