喜樂美語
  1. 1超級食物；台灣健康食品廣告和雜誌照樣用這個詞，注意它是行銷用語，不是營養學的正式分類

    A superfood is a food said to be unusually good for your health — packed with vitamins, minerals, or other substances that are supposed to protect the body. , kale, quinoa, chia seeds, and salmon all get called this. The important thing to tell students is that this is a marketing word, not a scientific one. Nutritionists do not have a category called 'superfood'; food companies, magazines, and health bloggers do. Most careful writers know this, so the word often appears with a small distance around it — in quotation marks, or after 'so-called'. That does not mean the foods are not healthy; many are. It means the label promises more than any single food can deliver, and it changes with fashion. The word became very common from about the 2000s , and by now it can sound dated or over-sold, the way 'wonder drug' does. It is countable: one superfood, several superfoods.

組成super- + food. The prefix super- comes from Latin super, 'above, beyond' — here it means 'better than the ordinary kind'. Food is the older, Germanic half of the word, from Old English fōda.

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原始詞典資料2 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。

superfoodnoun/ˈsupɚfud/

  • 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 […]
    • 2015, Sonoma Press, Quinoa: The Everyday Superfood: 150 Gluten-Free Recipes to Delight Every Kind of Eater, Arcas Publishing →ISBN There's a lot of interesting stuff to know about this superfood, but you don't have to learn everything about quinoa to know it's delicious, versatile, and easy to make. In fact, you can cook and eat quinoa like just about any grain, even though it […]
  • 2

    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.
    • Here are some useful tips to encourage your kids to eat more fruit and vegetables – one of the main sources of superfood nutrients in their diet.

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