junk food
noun
1
: food that is high in calories but low in nutritional content
2
: something that is appealing or enjoyable but of little or no real value
video junk food
Examples of junk food in a Sentence
worrying about kids eating too much junk food
eating too many junk foods
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Astronomers tend to be hungry, and many of us love junk food.
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Phil Plait, Scientific American, 13 Feb. 2025
These bills have generally been designed to exclude supposedly luxury items, such as steak and seafood, or aimed at barring purchases from a different supermarket aisle: candy, soda and other junk foods.
—Benjamin Chrisinger, The Conversation, 27 Jan. 2025
Mayer’s warnings, however, did not lead to a string of state bans on junk food.
—Cal Newport, The New Yorker, 22 Jan. 2025
Many of the policies he’s advocated for, such as removing junk food from school lunches, actually fall to a different agency: the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
—Nicholas Florko, The Atlantic, 13 Feb. 2025
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Phil Plait, Scientific American, 13 Feb. 2025
These bills have generally been designed to exclude supposedly luxury items, such as steak and seafood, or aimed at barring purchases from a different supermarket aisle: candy, soda and other junk foods.
—Benjamin Chrisinger, The Conversation, 27 Jan. 2025
Mayer’s warnings, however, did not lead to a string of state bans on junk food.
—Cal Newport, The New Yorker, 22 Jan. 2025
Many of the policies he’s advocated for, such as removing junk food from school lunches, actually fall to a different agency: the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
—Nicholas Florko, The Atlantic, 13 Feb. 2025
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“Junk food.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/junk%20food. Accessed 1 Mar. 2025.
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