Junk food
The anglicism junk food ( American English junk food , from English junk , "waste", "crap", "inferior material") stands for high-calorie food with an unhealthy high proportion of salty , sugary or fatty ingredients with little nutritional value .
General
Junk food is a polemical term with negative connotations for foods classified as inferior or unhealthy . Junkfood belongs to malnutrition as the excessive consumption of ready meals , fast food - and Street Food -Gerichten ( food stalls ). It is nutritionally inferior, industrially produced foods that often contain additives such as chemical preservatives , artificial flavorings , colorings or flavorings . The preparation by unqualified personnel in snack bars also meets the criteria for junk food.
history
The first commercially produced junk food is Cracker Jack , launched in the USA in 1896 , which was advertised with the slogan “the more you eat, the more you need”. The Merriam-Webster Dictionary contained in 1960 an entry for junk food with the definition as food with lots of calories but little nutritional content ( English food did is high in calories but low in nutritional content ). One of the oldest sources for the use of the word "junk" for fast food is an article in Time magazine from December 18, 1972. It did not explicitly mention junk food . That was only the case in a March 9, 1973 article in the Washington Post .
There are also individuals who may be considered to be the creators of the term, including New York Magazine's 1971 gastro critic Gael Green and former director of the Center for Science in the Public Interest Michael Jacobson in 1972 . Green wrote that her respect for the fame of French cuisine was second to none, "but I'm a junk food fool." The expression was popularized by the song Junk Food Junkie by Larry Groce after its publication in January 1976. In it he condemns his weakness for tacos, ho hos , ding dongs or moon pies .
species
The prerequisite for classification as junk food is the industrial production of the dishes in mass production such as currywurst , kebab , hamburgers , hot dogs , potato chips , nachos , pizza , french fries , taco or popcorn . Also drinks like Cola , fruit juice , soda or energy drinks fall into this category. For example, a 12 oz (340 gram) “Coke” beverage can contains 40.5 grams of sugar (that's 12 sugar cubes ) and 145 calories. The same amount of Red Bull contains 37 grams of carbohydrates / 153 calories. Food: 100 grams of currywurst contains 4.9 grams of carbohydrates and 245 calories; selected additional values: Doner kebab with veal, salad and sauce (17 grams / 217 calories), hamburger (24 grams / 295 calories), pizza (33 grams / 266 calories) or French fries (41 grams / 312 calories). In addition, because of their high sugar content , confectionery is classified as junk food if consumed excessively.
literature
- Christoph Wagner: Fast food . History of fast food, Campus, Munich 1995, ISBN 3-593-35346-6 .
- Brian J. Ford: Will it be junk food tomorrow? Haupt, Frankfurt am Main / Bern et al. 2001, ISBN 3-258-06302-8 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Ludwig Gortner / Sascha Meyer (eds.), Duale Reihe Pädiatrie , 2018, p. 93
- ^ Andrew F. Smith, Fast Food and Junk Food: An Encyclopedia of What We Love to Eat , Volume 1, 2012, p. 6
- ^ Entry of the term in Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary
- ↑ Christoph Wagner, Fast Already Food. The history of fast food , Frankfurt / Main 1975, p. 329
- ↑ Washington Post March 9, 1973 How many children are going to fill up on junk foods and be too full to eat a nutritious lunch ( German How many children stuff themselves with junkfoods full and are then fed to a nutritious lunch to take )
- ↑ source documentation of the language researcher Barry Popik
- ^ Gael Green, Confessions of a Sensualist , New York Magazine, 1971
- ^ B. Lee Cooper, Popular Music Perspectives: Ideas, Themes, and Patterns in Contemporary Lyrics , 1991, p. 96