Food & Drink
Healthy food
la fruta - fruit
las verduras - vegetables
una manzana - an apple
un plátano - a banana
un tomate - a tomato
una lechuga - a lettuce
un pepino - a cucumber
una ensalada - a salad
To talk about healthy food, you can use the phrases:
Es bueno para la salud. - It's good for your health.
Es malo para la salud. - It's bad for your health.
Eg:
El tomate es bueno para la salud. - Tomato is good for your health.
El chocolate es malo para la salud. - Chocolate is bad for your health.
Bueno and malo are ADJECTIVES. That means that they change depending on what they are describing:
With feminine nouns they become buena and mala:
bueno, buena - good (masculine), good (feminine)
malo, mala - bad (masculine), bad (feminine)
Una manzana es buena para la salud. - An apple is good for your health.
Una torrija es mala para la salud. - A torrija is bad for your health.
una torrija - a Spanish doughnut-like cake
With plural nouns, bueno becomes buenos and buena becomes buenas; malo becomes malos and mala becomes malas.
AND you have to change es (it is) to son (they are):
Las verduras son buenas para la salud. - Vegetables are good for your health.
Los caramelos son malos para la salud. - Sweets are bad for your health.
