The word verboten has appeared in 19 articles on NYTimes.com in the past year, including on Feb. 5 in “Bringing Health Food to the Masses, One Delivery at a Time” by David Gelles:

As a kid growing up in the Minneapolis suburbs during the ’90s, Nick Green’s kitchen cupboard was not like his friends’ kitchen cupboards. There were no salty snacks, no sugary cereal, no soda. Even Honey Nut Cheerios were verboten.

His mother, part of a large Mexican American family, had seen how the modern diet led to so many health problems for her relatives, and resolved to raise her own children with minimal processed foods.

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