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junk food

junk food noun: food 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.

Noun

junk food (countable and uncountable, plural junk foods)

  1. (informal) Food 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
    • 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 82
    Synonyms:
    unfood

junk food meaning in Tamil, Bengali, Indonesian and Persian

junk food in Tamil

வெற்றுணவு, அலம்பு உணவு

junk food in Bengali

কেকপেস্ট্রি, জাঙ্ক ফুড, দোকানি খাবার

junk food in Indonesian

food with little or no nutritional value
hanya makanan kecil, makanan sampah

junk food in Persian

food with little or no nutritional value
هلهخوراک hale-xorâk
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junk food in Thai
อาหารขยะ aa-hǎan-kà-yà

Synonyms of junk food

Forms of junk food

pluraljunk foods

Questions about junk food

What does junk food mean?
Junk food means food 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.
What is junk food in Tamil?
Junk food in Tamil is வெற்றுணவு, அலம்பு உணவு. See Junk food meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is junk food?
Junk food is a noun.
What is the plural of junk food?
The plural of junk food is junk foods.

Words near junk food in the dictionary

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  4. junk fee
  5. junk fees
  6. junk food
  7. junk food news
  8. junk foods
  9. junk gun
  10. junk guns
  11. junk head

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: junk food (page history and authors); junk food (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); junk food (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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