English [ edit ]
junk food (countable and uncountable , plural junk foods )
( 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 [ edit ]
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
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