junk food

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Junk food is tasty unhealthy food with lots of fat, sugar, and salt. Live on junk food.

The combination is engineered, since fat and sugar together are rare in nature. Junk food is designed to be eaten quickly and to leave you hungry sooner.

Definitions of junk food

1phrasejunk foodTasty unhealthy food with lots of fat, sugar, and salt.B2
“He ate junk food for a fortnight and felt every bit of it.”
- Said"No more junk food this week; I've eaten crisps for three dinners running."
- WrittenThe petrol station sold junk food and lottery tickets, and both were doing well.
- UsedKeep junk food out of the house if you want to stop eating it.
- ContrastJunk food, not fast food. Fast food is about the speed it arrives; junk food is about what is in it. fast food →
- Not thisA homemade burger is not junk food. Junk means processed, packaged and empty.
- SimplyJunk food is bad for you. Eat an apple.
Patterneat / live on junk food · cut out junk food · junk food advertising · junk

junk food is food.

Remember it

JUNK food → rubbish you can eat

Junk is rubbish you should throw away, and junk food is rubbish you eat: crisps, sweets and fizzy drinks.

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