What does junk foods contain?

Answer 1

"Junk food" is not a specific kind of food, more a category of different foods that re not very healthy adn usually are not too good for the body. Those include anyfoods high in fat, sugars, sodium / salt, and carbs. Some common example of this would be fast food, chocolates, candy, pastry / cakes, and sugary cereals.

Answer 2

Here is a list of 'red flag ingredients':

• sugar
• high fructose corn syrup (worst)
• enriched white flour
• partially hydrogenated oil
• saturated fat (4-legged animal fat or lard)

Answer 3

It's called "junk food" because it contains very little useful nutrients. Junk food is mainly comprised of simple sugars (low complexity carbohydrates), and saturated and/or "trans" fats. These two groups of foods are the cause of obesity, cardiovascular disease and possibly many forms of cancers.

Healthier choices of foods would include complex carbohydrates, protein, and mono or poly unsaturated fats.

Answer 4

Junk foods differ in their ingredients, but one thing junk foods have in common is that they offer little or no nutritional value. Many contain a lot of sugar.