Meanings
nounjunk food (countable and uncountable, plural junk foods)
plural junk foods
- countableinformaluncountableFood with little or no nutritional value; alternatively, food that supplies a large amount of nutrients but also excess calories, excess sugar or starch, and so on.
The episode begins with a lifetime of junk food, beer and no exercise catching up with Homer in the form of painful heart contractions.
2012 June 17, Nathan Rabin, “TV: Review: THE SIMPSONS (CLASSIC): “Homer’s Triple Bypass” (season 4, episode 11; originally aired 12/17/1992)”, in The Onion AV Club, archived from the original on 16 Oct 20131 more example
Junk foods and fast foods such as pizzas, hot dogs, doughnuts, cookies, cakes, and so on increase inflammation, promote insulin resistance, and increase the risk of diabetes and obesity.
2018, Timothy R. Jennings, The Aging Brain, →ISBN, page 82Synonyms: unfood
Synonyms & antonyms
nounFood with little or no nutritional value; alternatively, food that supplies a large amount of nutrients but also excess calories, excess sugar or starch, and so on.
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Translations
Basque zabor-janari
- zabor-janarifood with little or no nutritional value
Bulgarian джънк фуд
- джънк фуд (džănk fud)food with little or no nutritional value
Catalan menjar escombraria, menjar porqueria
- menjar escombrariafood with little or no nutritional value
- menjar porqueriafood with little or no nutritional value
Chinese Cantonese 垃圾食品, 垃圾食物
- 垃圾食品 (laap⁶ saap³ sik⁶ ban²)food with little or no nutritional value
- 垃圾食物 (laap⁶ saap³ sik⁶ mat⁶)food with little or no nutritional value
Chinese Mandarin 垃圾食品, 垃圾食物
- 垃圾食品 (lājī shípǐn, lèsè shípǐn)food with little or no nutritional value
- 垃圾食物 (lājī shíwù, lèsè shíwù)food with little or no nutritional value
Czech nezdravá strava, bufetová strava
- nezdravá stravafood with little or no nutritional value
- bufetová stravafood with little or no nutritional value
Danish junkfood
- junkfoodfood with little or no nutritional value
Dutch junkfood, troepvoedsel
- junkfoodfood with little or no nutritional value
- troepvoedselfood with little or no nutritional value
- vulvoerfood with little or no nutritional value
Estonian rämpstoit
- rämpstoitfood with little or no nutritional value
Finnish roskaruoka
- roskaruokafood with little or no nutritional value
French malbouffe, junk-food
- malbouffefood with little or no nutritional value
- junk-foodfood with little or no nutritional value
German ungesundes Essen, Fraß
- ungesundes Essenfood with little or no nutritional value
- Fraßfood with little or no nutritional value
- Schundessenfood with little or no nutritional value
- Junkfoodfood with little or no nutritional value
Greek έτοιμο ανθυγιεινό φαγητό
- έτοιμο ανθυγιεινό φαγητό (étoimo anthygieinó fagitó)food with little or no nutritional value
Hebrew גַּ׳אנְק פוּד, זלולת
- גַּ׳אנְק פוּד (jank fud)food with little or no nutritional value
- זלולתfood with little or no nutritional value
- זְלֹלֶת (z'lólet)food with little or no nutritional value
Hungarian szemétkaja
- szemétkajafood with little or no nutritional value
Icelandic hnasl
- hnaslfood with little or no nutritional value
Indonesian hanya makanan kecil, makanan sampah
- hanya makanan kecilfood with little or no nutritional value
- makanan sampahfood with little or no nutritional value
Irish mearbhia
- mearbhiafood with little or no nutritional value
Italian cibo poco sano, cibi preconfezionati
- cibo poco sanofood with little or no nutritional value
- cibi preconfezionatifood with little or no nutritional value
- porcheriefood with little or no nutritional value
- cibo spazzaturafood with little or no nutritional value
Japanese ジャンクフード
- ジャンクフード (jankufūdo)food with little or no nutritional value
Korean 정크푸드
- 정크푸드 (jeongkeupudeu)food with little or no nutritional value
Latvian nepilnvērtīga barība
- nepilnvērtīga barībafood with little or no nutritional value
Māori kai paraurehe
- kai paraurehefood with little or no nutritional value
Norwegian usunnmat
- usunnmatfood with little or no nutritional value
Norwegian Bokmål søppelmat
- søppelmatfood with little or no nutritional value
Persian هلهخوراک
- هلهخوراک (hale-xorâk)food with little or no nutritional value
Polish śmieciowe jedzenie
- śmieciowe jedzeniefood with little or no nutritional value
Portuguese comida que não é saudável, besteira
- comida que não é saudávelfood with little or no nutritional value
- besteirafood with little or no nutritional value
- tranqueirafood with little or no nutritional value
Russian неполноценная пища, тяжёлая пища
- неполноценная пища (nepolnocennaja pišča)food with little or no nutritional value
- тяжёлая пища (tjažólaja pišča)food with little or no nutritional value
- нездоро́вая пи́ща (nezdoróvaja píšča)food with little or no nutritional value
- пусты́е кало́рии (pustýje kalórii)food with little or no nutritional value
- джанк-фу́д (džank-fúd)food with little or no nutritional value
Spanish comida basura, comida chatarra
- comida basurafood with little or no nutritional value
- comida chatarrafood with little or no nutritional value
- chucheríasfood with little or no nutritional value
Swedish skräpmat
- skräpmatfood with little or no nutritional value
Thai อาหารขยะ
- อาหารขยะ (aa-hǎan-kà-yà)food with little or no nutritional value
Turkish abur cubur
- abur cuburfood with little or no nutritional value
Welsh bwyd diwerth, bwyd sothach
- bwyd diwerthfood with little or no nutritional value
- bwyd sothachfood with little or no nutritional value
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