Junk food is a term used for food that has little or no nutritional value; this includes snacks, sweets and fast foods such as KFC or McDonalds. Junk foods are typically high in fat/sugar. Junk food is easy to obtain, and usually very tasty, therefore it is very popular with a majority of people.
Junk foods are often high in saturated fats, sugar and additives.
Many junk food snacks also contain artificial flavourings, colourings and preservatives
A lot of non-chain fast food is deep fried in unhealthy oils, and contains high levels of salt.
The quality of the meat is also suspicious – it may be highly processed or reformed, and probably won’t be organic or free-range.
Junk food is explicitly targeted at young people: children, teenagers, and people who work and are usually very busy. This is because it gives them and quick, easy and cheap way to eat and still be able to continue working during the day. Consider the advertising of Happy Meals, and the way that junk food snacks are positioned right by the checkout in supermarkets.
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