comfort food

Finnish translation: lohturuoka

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00:55 Feb 5, 2021
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Medical - Psychology
Additional field(s): General / Conversation / Greetings / Letters, Medical: Health Care, Nutrition, Slang
English term or phrase: comfort food
Definition from TermCoord:
Certain foods provide a sentimental effect when they are consumed. Comfort foods make us feel good because of the meaning that we give them. We associate dishes with a family member, a significant person, a suggestive moment that we lived, and we tend to “use” food to find the scent of this or that experience again. Comfort food is linked to a personal feeling but also a cultural and historical one. It depends on the ingredients and the habits that we grew up with, in a specific country at a particular historical moment; it shapes our identity.

Example sentence(s):
  • But digging into comfort foods all winter — like a savory beef stew, spicy spaghetti and meatballs, macaroni and cheese, fluffy pancakes, gooey pizza, or buttery mashed potatoes — comes with health risks. Health Harvard
  • While it would be presumptuous to award pizza the prize of being America’s number one comfort food without an appropriate census count, pizza being on a shortlist of America’s favorite foods would not be a shocking discovery. Giordano's
  • Binge eating on comfort food can therefore indicate other issues that are physical, psychological, and indicative of depression and past trauma. Desert Hope
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Finnish translation:lohturuoka
Definition:
kuv. ruoasta jonka syömisen tuottavan mielihyvän kokee kohottavan mielialaa
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lohturuoka


Definition from Kielitoimiston sanakirja:
kuv. ruoasta jonka syömisen tuottavan mielihyvän kokee kohottavan mielialaa

Example sentence(s):
  • Tyypillisiä lohturuokia ovat ne, joihin liittyy vahva tunnelataus, turvallisia muistoja tai mielihyvän tunne: lämmin, vastaleivottu pulla tuo mieleen turvallisen mummin lämpimät pullat, ja suklaa tuntuu auttavan kaikkiin huoliin. - Iltasanomat  
  • Monilla meillä on jokin lohturuoka, comfort food, jonka koemme helpottavan oloamme maailman murjoessa, kuvaili Sauri. Lohturuoka voi olla peräisin hyvinkin kaukaa menneisyydestä, äidin tekemä makaronilaatikko tai mummon perunamuusi voivat tuottaa muistumia lapsuuden idyllistä ja turvallisuudesta. - Ruokatieto Yhdistys ry  
  • Tutkitusti ruuan lohduttava vaikutus perustuu pitkälti tunnemuistiin. Kun muistoissa on vaikkapa pullantuoksuinen äiti, voi korvapuusti olla parasta lohdutusta, mitä syömällä saa. Suomalaiset syövät lohturuokaa eniten kurjan sään aiheuttamaan mielipahaan. - Helsingin uutiset  
Leena Kinnunen
United Kingdom
Local time: 21:13
Native speaker of: Native in FinnishFinnish
PRO pts in category: 4

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