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junk food

–noun
1. food, as potato chips or candy, that is high in calories but of little nutritional value.
2. anything that is attractive and diverting but of negligible substance: the junk food offered by daytime television.

Origin:
1970–75, Americanism


junk-food, adjective
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junk food n.
Any of various prepackaged snack foods high in calories but low in nutritional value.

The American Heritage® Stedman's Medical Dictionary
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