1. Word finder
  2. Word definitions
  3. low-fat

Find the word definition

What is "low-fat"

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
low-fat
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a low-calorie/low-fat etc diet
▪ A low-calorie diet should solve your weight problem.
high-fat/low-fat
▪ a low-fat diet
low-fat/low-salt etc
▪ low-alcohol beer
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
cheese
▪ Rub in the butter with the hands, then add the low-fat cheese spread and work in with the hands.
▪ To offset the perception that dairy foods are high in calories, low-fat cheeses have become state-of-the-art.
▪ Lunch Rice cakes, low-fat cheese, tomatoes and onion, apple.
▪ Try Cabot Vermont light Cheddar, the creme de la creme of low-fat cheeses.
▪ Cottage or other low-fat cheese can be substituted for full-fat cheese; skimmed and semi-skimmed milk for whole milk.
▪ Stillman was a strict carnivore, allowing his patients to eat only lean meat, poultry, eggs, and low-fat cheeses.
▪ Dinner Cauliflower in low-fat cheese sauce.
diet
▪ What better motivation to follow a low-fat diet? 7.
▪ People who lose weight and keep it off eat a low-fat diet with an occasional splurge.
▪ If there is no change after following a low-fat diet, a more detailed test is usually the next step.
▪ Ulene tries to practice what he preaches, jogging and eating a low-fat diet.
▪ Selfexams, low-fat diets, even mammography offer no guarantees of protection against an insidious and unpredictable pathology.
▪ Contrary to what she says about being anti-diet, she mainly promotes a low-fat diet.
▪ PreSnackwellian researchers proposed high-carbohydrate, low-fat diets for weight control.
▪ Combine with a low-fat diet for best results.
milk
▪ Cultured buttes-milk is pasteurized skim milk or low-fat milk that has been soured by lactic acid producing bacteria or other similar culture.
spread
▪ Rye bread, crispbread, or high-fibre crackers and low-fat spread, virtually fat-free yoghurt.
▪ Gently melt the low-fat spread in a saucepan and add the flour.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ low-fat cottage cheese
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ All the family can enjoy eating the low-fat way and it will do everyone a world of good.
▪ Cultured buttes-milk is pasteurized skim milk or low-fat milk that has been soured by lactic acid producing bacteria or other similar culture.
▪ Gently melt the low-fat spread in a saucepan and add the flour.
▪ People who lose weight and keep it off eat a low-fat diet with an occasional splurge.
▪ Prudhomme said the learning process was similar to that he undertook before writing a low-fat cookbook.
▪ Richmond stresses the opportunities for Ruby to complement Staley's low-fat poly-dextrose bulking agent, codenamed Topaz.
▪ To do so follow two simple guidelines. 1 Keep to the low-fat dishes. 2 Keep to the very simple dishes.
▪ Ulene tries to practice what he preaches, jogging and eating a low-fat diet.
Wiktionary
low-fat

a. Not having a high number of calories from fat or great amount of fats. Especially an alternate variety of food designed to have lower calories, dietetic.

Usage examples of "low-fat".

This antiaging diet is based on whole, natural, low-fat foods that are high in fiber, which promotes efficient fat-burning during exercise and every other hour of the day.

For the layers, she mixes together soy hamburger crumbles, a good tomato sauce filled with mushrooms and finely chopped vegetables, low-fat mozzarella cheese, and non-fat ricotta cheese made even tastier by a good infusion of pesto.

For instance, we know that a low-fat, high-fiber diet reduces blood estrogen levels in women, helping to balance hormones.

This was the culmination of a yearlong diet composed mainly of low-fat cottage cheese and single-malt Scotch whiskey, plus nine hundred packs of cigarettes and a daily vitamin pill.

Using a surgical hemostat, he was trying to peel the aluminum safety seal from a four-ounce container of low-fat blueberry yogurt.

As usual, he washed down a tablet of Pepcid AC with a glass of low-fat moo juice before he ordered the mess of eggs and the home fries that he'd mentioned earlier.

He tucked two cartons of low-fat milk into the remaining space on his tray.

One God-fearing Christian woman in search of a gallon of low-fat milk pulled up outside.

Carton of low-fat milk, slab of margarine or butter, several containers of yogurt.

So far he'd poured himself a glass of low-fat milk from her refrigerator, and was nervously eyeing the bananas on the table.

There was a frying pan on the stove, and she fixed a quick breakfast of bacon, eggs and toast, and washed it down with a glass of low-fat milk.

Max was promoted to the sixth floor and put in charge of an $18 million account for a low-fat malt liquor called Steed.

Dick, a wholesome young slice of low-fat cheese like Jane DePugh could ream me, steam me, dry clean me and get me off this B-movie treadmill to Nowheresville that has had me exploiting aggrieved schvartzes and taco benders to glom the cash to make these lox epics that have given me three heart attacks and a spastic colon.