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.
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