WHAT IS JUNK FOOD..

WHAT IS JUNK FOOD..

Junk food is an informal term applied to some foods

that are perceived to have little or no nutritional value,

i.e. containing "empty calories"  to products with 

nutritional value, but also have ingredients considered unhealthy when regularly eaten; or to those considered unhealthy to consume at all. Michael Jacobson aptly 

coins the phrase junk food in 1972.

Junk foods are typically ready-to-eat and have no

health benefits.

Junk foods include salted snack foods like chips (crisps), 

candy, gum, most sweet desserts, fried fast food and

carbonated beverages (sodas)  as well as alcoholic

beverages. The soft drink, potato chips, hot chips,

ice cream, and hamburgers,hot dogs are called

junk food. Junk food refers to fast foods which are

easy to make and easy to consume.

They are zero in nutritional value. The taste is the 

most attractive feature in junk foods but have ill effect

on one’s health. Junk food addiction is so high because

of its simplicity and if time constraint is one reason that 

pushes you to eating junk food.

Coming to Indian junk food, locally called ‘chaat’, 

these mostly include the very famous samosas, kachoris, panipuris/golgappas and patties. These are fried items 

with various fillings within an outer layer made of 

refined flour.

In India, even Chinese food sold in road-side stalls 

is junk food because they contain high amount of 

Monosodium Glutamate (MSG).

Motto of life : 

Eat lots of fresh foods, healthy foods most of the time. 

Comfort foods may involve foods that have a 

nostalgic element either to an individual.

 They are foods consumed to achieve some level of 

improved emotional status, whether to relieve negative psychological affect or to increase positive feeling.

Convenience food, or tertiary processed food, is

commercially prepared food designed for ease of 

consumption.

Fast food means is the term given to food that can 

be prepared and served very quickly.

While any meal with low preparation time can be 

considered to be fast food.

A snack food  is a portion of food often  smaller 

than that of the regular meal and it is the in between food .