Junk Foods - A Study

How do you define junk food? It's high in calories, low in nutrition. And there's much worse, in the Junk Food Facts. Junk food is everywhere. You and your family probably eat it every day. Sugar-laden breakfast cereals, snack bars, biscuits and cakes, crisps and chips, soft drinks, sweets, ready-meals, fast food like burgers - so much of what's on offer on the supermarket shelves is produced on the cheap (but not sold cheaply), full of unhealthy ingredients - it's not nutritious, it's laced with addictively tasty fats, sugars and salt, it just is not worth eating. Junk Food - it's aptly named. Now, wise up on the junk food facts.


JUNK FOOD FACTS for CHILDREN:


The junk food industry deliberately targets children as young as 2 in a bid to create brand preference and lifelong loyalty.
Advertisers question kids and tap into their play to create ads and products with guaranteed child-appeal. Fast food chains use the lure of free toys to get kids to persuade their parents to spend. A desirable toy can double or triple weekly sales of kids’ meals. And every child brings along at least one adult too.

• Artificial flavours in foods aimed at kids can be twice as sweet as the artificial flavours used in adult food. Children are being trained to find the natural bitter or sour notes that mingle with the sweetness in natural foods unpalatable.





• Many children now prefer man-made flavours to the taste of real food. How will they ever switch to fresh, unadulterated food?





• Flavourings and colourings can cause asthma, rashes and hyperactivity. Many countries – but not the UK – ban them from children’s food.

• UK companies spend £300m annually on ads aimed at kids. The average British child watches tv for 2 hrs 20 mins daily.





• Children in the US have over $500bn a year to spend. The average American kid spends 25 hours a week watching tv, and sees around 20,000 ads a year for junk food. That’s one every 5 mins as they watch, and 3 hours of them in any one week…

JUNK FOOD FACTS – SOFT DRINKS:

• The metal can costs more than the ingredients, which are primarily water mixed with additives, sugar or sweetener, and caffeine. A can of cola contains 10 teaspoons of sugar.





• Soft drinks are aggressively marketed by fast food chains, because they are so profitable, at around 97% profit on the price per cup. The bigger the cup, the greater the profit.





• In the US, average adult consumption of soft drinks is around 500 cans a year.
• Twenty per cent of American under-2s are given soft drinks – laden with sugar and additives – every day.
  

Chocolate muffin

• Ruinously high in sugar, and made with the big baddie of the junk food industry, partially hydrogenated vegetable oil which has zero nutritional value, and damages heart and arteries.

Fries

• Fat-packed and low in nutrients. May be coated with additives and salt.
  

Fruit yoghurts, ready-made sauces, fruit drinks, baby foods – and more…:

• Modified starches, along with colourings and flavourings, mimic the texture of fresh fruit and veg, so that manufacturers’ can use less of the real thing. They also mask rancid flavours’ and smells.

Milkshakes

• A simple-sounding ingredient, like ‘artificial strawberry flavour’ can in itself contain around 50 chemicals. And not one single strawberry…
  The unhealthy facts about junk foods and fast foods make shocking reading. But at least they enable you to make informed decisions, next time you go grocery shopping, or want a quick meal out.
  

List of some Junk Foods, Keep your children away from these junks. I can understand its hard for them to get rid of that. The best part to make them hate the junk foods is by adding some bitter or hot flavour which your child dont like. Make sure that you add them without knowing them. Fine Its high time for moms or adults to avoid them. How to do that? No other go, control your temptation :)


Crisps

Chips

Burgers

Butter Popcorn

PopTarts

Pizza

Doritos

French Fries

Marshmallows

Garlic Bread

Chocolate Pudding

Apple Crumble

Cheesecake

Millions

Corn chips

Ice cream

Sweets

Hot Dogs

Muffins

Cakes

Fajitas

Cookies

Toffee cake

Beef Jerky

Onion rings

Apple Pie

Biscuits

Crepes

Pancakes

Chocolate

Maccaroni

Cheese burger

Chicken nuggets

Turkey twizzlers

Peanut and Jam Sandwiches

Jelly

Brownies

Toffee apple

Candy Floss

Kebabs

Prawn Crackers

Fried Chicken

Prawn Balls

Beans

Roast Patatoes

Chicken wings

Wedges

Baloney

Doughnuts