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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Six more states have banned junk food purchases from being bought with Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has announced.
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Aliss Higham, MSNBC Newsweek, 5 Aug. 2025
Advocates will be looking to see if the report signals the administration may try to mandate front-of-package warning labels or crack down on marketing junk food to children.
—Nathaniel Meyersohn, CNN Money, 4 Aug. 2025
Shoppers in Colorado who use the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program will soon be barred from using their benefits to buy certain junk foods.
—Sam Tabachnik, Denver Post, 4 Aug. 2025
In an opinion piece published by USA TODAY, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr. and Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins pushed for states to crack down on junk food purchases with food stamps.
—Anthony Shoemaker, The Enquirer, 2 July 2025
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Aliss Higham, MSNBC Newsweek, 5 Aug. 2025
Advocates will be looking to see if the report signals the administration may try to mandate front-of-package warning labels or crack down on marketing junk food to children.
—Nathaniel Meyersohn, CNN Money, 4 Aug. 2025
Shoppers in Colorado who use the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program will soon be barred from using their benefits to buy certain junk foods.
—Sam Tabachnik, Denver Post, 4 Aug. 2025
In an opinion piece published by USA TODAY, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr. and Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins pushed for states to crack down on junk food purchases with food stamps.
—Anthony Shoemaker, The Enquirer, 2 July 2025
See All Example Sentences for junk food
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“Junk food.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/junk%20food. Accessed 20 Aug. 2025.
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