junk food

See also: Junkfood and junk-food

English

Noun

junk food (countable and uncountable, plural junk foods)

1. (informal) Food with little or no nutritional value.

   Synonym: unfood

   • 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^[1]:

     The episode begins with a lifetime of junk food, beer and no exercise catching up with Homer in the form of painful heart contractions.

   • 2018, Timothy R. Jennings, The Aging Brain, →ISBN, page 82:

     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.

Translations

food with little or no nutritional value

• Arabic: please add this translation if you can
• Armenian: անառողջ սնունդ (anaṙoġǰ snund), ջանկ-ֆուդ (ǰank-fud)
• Basque: zabor-janari
• Bulgarian: джънк фуд m (džǎnk fud)
• Catalan: menjar escombraria m, menjar porqueria m
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 垃圾食品 (laap⁶ saap³ sik⁶ ban²), 垃圾食物 (laap⁶ saap³ sik⁶ mat⁶)

  Mandarin: 垃圾食品 (zh) (lājī shípǐn, lèsè shípǐn), 垃圾食物 (zh) (lājī shíwù, lèsè shíwù)

• Czech: nezdravá strava; bufetová strava
• Danish: junkfood c
• Dutch: junkfood (nl) n, troepvoedsel (unusual), vulvoer (unusual)
• Estonian: rämpstoit
• Finnish: roskaruoka (fi)
• French: malbouffe (fr) f, junk-food (fr) f (anglicism)
• Georgian: please add this translation if you can
• German: ungesundes Essen n, (slang) Fraß (de) m, Schundessen n, Junkfood (de) m
• Greek: έτοιμο ανθυγιεινό φαγητό (étoimo anthygieinó fagitó)
• Hungarian: szemétkaja
• Icelandic: hnasl
• Indonesian: hanya makanan kecil, makanan sampah
• Irish: mearbhia
• Italian: cibo poco sano, cibi preconfezionati, porcherie (it), cibo spazzatura m
• Japanese: ジャンクフード (ja) (jankufūdo)
• Kabuverdianu: fatióta
• Korean: 정크푸드 (jeongkeupudeu)
• Latvian: nepilnvērtīga barība
• Macedonian: нездрава храна f (nezdrava hrana)
• Maori: kai paraurehe
• Norwegian: usunnmat

  Bokmål: søppelmat m

  Nynorsk: søppelmat m

• Polish: śmieciowe jedzenie n
• Portuguese: comida que não é saudável, besteira (pt) f, tranqueira (pt) f
• Russian: неполноценная пища (nepolnocennaja pišča), тяжёлая пища (tjažólaja pišča), нездоро́вая пи́ща f (nezdoróvaja píšča), пусты́е кало́рии f pl (pustýje kalórii), джанк-фу́д (ru) m (džank-fúd)
• Spanish: comida basura f, comida chatarra f
• Swedish: skräpmat (sv)
• Thai: อาหารขยะ (th) (aa-hǎan-kà-yà)
• Turkish: abur cubur (tr)
• Welsh: bwyd diwerth (cy) m, bwyd sothach (cy) m

See also

• fast food