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DEFINITION: n. Any highly-processed food or beverage in which the natural ingredients have been removed and replaced with artificial flavors and additives. v. To consume food products laced with synthetic sweeteners, imitation flavors, and other carcinogens.
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Badditive
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: bad it tiv
Sentence: Sidney ate processed foods everyday and was concerned that they had all had a badditive component to them. His first clue should have been in some of their brand names:E-Cola, Tinned Salmon Ella and Canned Ptomainetoes...
Etymology: Bad (not good, not safe nor edible) & Additive (something added to enhance food or gasoline or paint or medicine)
Niltritious
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: nil-trish-uhs
Sentence: After years of eating "junk food", Jerry has decides to turn his eating habits around. Now if he is hungry between meals he will reach for a health bar and an energy drink instead of a bag of chips and a soda. His diet is still niltritous but he at least he FEELS better about it.
Etymology: nil (nonexistent, nothing) + nutritious (providing nourishment, especially to a high degree; nourishing; healthful)
Pseudapop
Created by: otherguy
Pronunciation: soōdapäp
Sentence: Sodapop is bad enough, but substituting artificial flavoring and sweeteners for anything almost natural change it over to pseudapop.
Etymology: pseudo: fake + pop: soda
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COMMENTS:
Nice word. - artr, 2009-01-29: 06:11:00
Very good! - Mustang, 2009-01-29: 07:17:00
excellent - Jabberwocky, 2009-01-29: 09:43:00
Perfect fit for word definition good job! :) - abrakadeborah, 2009-04-24: 07:16:00
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Synthecider
Created by: galwaywegian
Pronunciation: sin theh seye dur
Sentence: After fourteen pints of synthecider he was peckish when he got home, so he fired up the microwave and added one of the new meals with food flavouring, before settling down for a video and a cuddle with inflatable Isabelle.
Etymology: synthesizer cider
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COMMENTS:
Great sentence! Will long remember "food flavoring" - silveryaspen, 2009-01-29: 08:25:00
fun to say - Jabberwocky, 2009-01-29: 09:44:00
Sintheresting word!! - Nosila, 2009-01-29: 19:41:00
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Badditive
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: bad dit tiv
Sentence: One day when Chad was told by his doctor to watch what he consumed, he started reading the labels. He was amazed to see all the badditives placed in his food and drink. Latin-sounding, unpronounceable names, sinister sounding words and all the ingrediants were at least 15 letters long. Every badditive was making the Chadditive both sadditive and madditive!
Etymology: Bad (that which is below standard or expectations as of ethics or decency; capable of harming;reproduced fraudulently) & Additive (something added to enhance food)
Nutrideficient
Created by: Mustang
Pronunciation: new-treh-de-FISH-unt
Sentence: Filbert was in complete denial about the 'power drink' he consumed daily, thinking it was packed with added vitamins, minerals and nutriments but it was in fact, totally nutrideficient.
Etymology: Blend of 'nutrition' (beneficial attribute of food) and 'deficient' (in short supply-absent)
Artisinful
Created by: abrakadeborah
Pronunciation: ar-ti-sin-ful
Sentence: Carl started every day with a sugary cola even though he knew it was artisinful and causing him to lose his teeth.
Etymology: Arti- Taken in part of artificial - Made by humans; produced rather than natural. Sinful- To do wrong or characterized by or being a sin.
Fastfraud
Created by: splendiction
Pronunciation: junkfeed
Sentence: Jim began junkfeeding as a child. As a young adult he consumed his favourite, seriously overprocessed, junkfeed in quantities disproportionate to his energy needs so that he became unhealthy. His doctors warned him to avoid the common, easy to reach, junkfeed and return to a simpler diet rich in real food. Jim learned what real food is but unfortunately couldn't find real foods around him...
Etymology: junkfeed v and n. from junk or useless stuff/what has no purpose and the verb feed, for an organism's tendency to eat for necessity and not the enjoyment of food
Rinkydrink
Created by: mweinmann
Pronunciation: Ring - kee - dreenk
Sentence: Norton exclaimed, "What kinda rinkydrink is this?!!!!" It is full of Sweententame, Carcinocolor 30, Noxphoric Acid, Nomassium Renzoate, Nomassium Bitrate, Baselcellame Nomassium and.... its loaded with Daffeine to boot!!
Etymology: Rinky Dink + Drink >>> Rinky Dink(Of poor or inferior quality; hokey; sloppy; chintzy; small; flimsy; inadequate) >> Drink (consumable beverage).
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COMMENTS:
Easy to remember, quick to come to mind ... will use it a lot! - silveryaspen, 2009-01-29: 08:37:00
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Caldrieath
Created by: leeannhamers
Pronunciation: Ka-Al-dree-eth
Sentence: My mom told me not to have soda its one of those Caldrieath foods.
Etymology: Calories, Drinks, Death
Comments:
Today's definition was suggested by silveryaspen. Thank you silveryaspen. ~ James
Today's definition was suggested by silveryaspen. Thank you silveryaspen. ~ James