all-natural

English

Alternative forms

  • all natural

Etymology

From all +‎ natural.

Adjective

all-natural (not comparable)

  2. (chiefly of food, drink, or their ingredients) Consisting wholly of natural ingredients; being absolutely natural without any artificial components.
    all-natural soups;   all-natural ingredients
    • 2008, Brett Mckay, The Art of Manliness: Sandwiches for Men Cookbook, 500+ Manly Sandwich Recipes‎[1], →ISBN, page 21:
      • All-natural peanut butter
    • 2013 December 21, 413lab, doctordaedalus, “An all-natural banana”, in reddit.com‎[2]:
      so is this supposed to be the actual, sincerely natural chemical ingredients of a bonafide wild banana, or is this a[sic] expose image on the ingredients that are added to supposedly "all-natural" bananas?
    • 2015 April 28, Michael Pollan, “Why ‘Natural’ Doesn’t Mean Anything Anymore”, in The New York Times Magazine‎[3]:
      During the past few years, some 200 class-action suits have been filed against food manufacturers, charging them with misuse of the adjective in marketing such edible oxymorons as “natural” Cheetos Puffs, “all-natural” Sun Chips, “all-natural” Naked Juice, “100 percent all-natural” Tyson chicken nuggets and so forth.
    • 2020 March 25, Fhalala, koala_token, “Reinhardt only wears 100% all-natural hats”, in reddit.com‎[4]:
      Should bring out his own all-natural hat line. So classy!
  4. Without makeup and with one's natural hair color.
    Synonym: au naturel
    This is my all-natural look. How do you like it?
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