Junk Food Hamburgers French Fries At Mcdonalds KFC And Pizza Hut

Junk food are unhealthy food with less or nutritional value. As per the Food Standards Agency in United Kingdom, the term was at first coined by Michael Jacobson. Michael F. Jacobson is a PhD in Microbiology and one of the founding figures of the Center of Science in the Public Interest, in 1971.

One of the national leaders in the nutritional movements, Michael F. Jacobson measured nutritional labels of all the foods and most beverages. He also worked with some of his associates at the Center for the Study of Responsive Law. The terms Junk Food and Empty Calorie were his brainchild and an interesting fact about Jacobson is that he himself likes to munch on vegetarian stuff.

If we take a look into the nutritional contents of Junk Food we find that the nutritional contents of the food are quite low. The foodstuffs are made up of saturated fat, salt and sugar and food ingredients. Of the sticky ingredients that make the foodstuff not so nutritious are ingredients like monosodium glutamate and tartrazine. Monosodium Glutamate or glutamate or flavor enhancer 621 is commonly known as MSG, Ajinomoto, Vetsin, Accent and Sodium salt or Glutamic Acid.

Junk Food has another ingredient Tartrazine. Tartrazine is also known as E102 or FD&C Yellow 5. It is a synthetic dye, lemon yellow in color and mostly used as a food coloring agent. The food additive or food coloring agent is made out of coal tar and it is water soluble and it has a special max absorbance and found as an aqueous solution.

The Tartrazine content in the Junk Food is the most commonly used color in nations like Africa and Sweden. The color is mostly used to add yellow color in the food and it also transmits certain other colors. Other colors that we mostly find in these food types are Brilliant Blue FCF E133 and Green S E142 and its various green shades.

To name a few junk food having Tartrazine content, we find confectionery, soft drinks, instant foods like puddings and flavored chips. We also find cereals, such as corn flakes and museli and cake mixes. People mostly eat some rice items, like- Paella and Risotto, Puddings and Custards and some varieties of soups, which are low in nutrition yet tangy in taste. Candy, Chewing gums, Marzipan, Jelly and Gelatins or mustard paste, ice creams and noodles are foods having no or less nutritional value.

With the rising popularity of the junk food, a number of food joints have also opened up. Fast foods that are most commonly eaten are hamburgers and French fries and sold out at hangouts at McDonalds, KFC and Pizza hut. Some other food joints are California Pizza Kitchen and Nandos. Junk Food