unhealthy food

Bad dietary choices

Food that lacks nutritional value or actively harms health when consumed regularly—high in sugar, salt, saturated fat, or processed ingredients.

The term covers fast food, sugary snacks, and heavily processed items: I've been eating too much unhealthy food lately.

Also called junk food.

The line between unhealthy and merely indulgent depends on quantity and context.

Related

cupcakes · shake · fried chicken · bacon · meat pies · ice cream · churros · funnel cake · samosas · hot dogs · donuts · sausage rolls · pizza · trans fats · empty calories · nachos · energy drinks · onion rings

Opposites
nutritional value

unhealthy foodhealth food

Nutrient-dense dietary choices

superfoods · clean eating · balanced diet · whole foods · fortified foods

dietary virtue/moral framing

unhealthy foodmindful eating

Deliberate attention while consuming

Mediterranean diet · anti-inflammatory diet · therapeutic diet

processing level

unhealthy foodwhole foods

Unrefined, unprocessed edibles

raw food · organic food · fresh produce · slow food · natural foods

Family

unhealthy, food, healthy, health, heal, healer, healing, healed, healthful

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Top 50,000
Profile
Known to kids · Used worldwide · Timeless · Concrete · Negative · Everyday, not technical · Rated G