fattener

Calorie-dense food item

A fattener is something that causes weight gain—typically food: Holiday desserts are notorious fatteners.

In agriculture, a fattener is an animal being raised for slaughter, or the farm or facility where livestock are fed to increase their weight before market: The calves were sent to a fattener for finishing.

livestock

cattle

Domesticated bovines kept commercially

goats · feedlot · herd · flock · stockyard · piggery · broiler · steer · hog · capon

feed

grain

Cereal plant's harvest unit

barley · alfalfa · mash · pellets · concentrate · ration · forage · supplements · protein · carbohydrates

dietary

calories

Measures of food energy

butter · lard · cream · oils · processed foods · junk food · fast food · snacks · desserts · sodas

Opposites
effect on body weight

fattenerslimmer

More narrow in build

reducer · fat burner · appetite suppressant · diet pill · leaner

nutritional/caloric density

fattenerrabbit food

Dismissive term for salad

health food · filler

Phrases
Family

fatten, fattening, fattened, fattens, fatteners, fatten up

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