
Some fast foods are high in calories and low in nutritional value, while other fast foods, such as salads, may be low in calories and high in nutritional value." Fast foods are ready-to-eat foods served promptly after ordering. While not all fast foods are junk foods, many of them are. Smith's Encyclopedia of Junk Food and Fast Food, junk food is defined as "those commercial products, including candy, bakery goods, ice cream, salty snacks and soft drinks, which have little or no nutritional value but do have plenty of calories, salt, and fats.

Whether foods such as pizza are considered junk food depends upon how they are made: this home-made miniature pizza with vegetable toppings would not be. For example, white bread, crackers, cake, candy, ice cream soda, chocolate malted, sundaes, sweetened carbonated beverages." The term cheat food can be traced back in newspaper mentions to at least 1916.

That is anything made principally of (1) white flour and or (2) refined white sugar or syrup. Brady’s Health Column: More Junk Than Food". In 1952, the phrase appeared in a headline in the Lima, Ohio, News, "'Junk Foods' Cause Serious Malnutrition", over a reprint of a 1948 article from the Ogden, Utah, Standard-Examiner, originally titled, "Dr. Jacobson of the Center for Science in the Public Interest, in 1972. The term junk food dates back at least to the early 1950s, although its coinage has been credited to Michael F.

It is also known as HFSS food (high in fat, salt and sugar). " Junk food" is a term used to describe food that is high in calories from sugar and/or fat, and possibly also sodium, but with little dietary fiber, protein, vitamins, minerals, or other important forms of nutritional value. A poster at Camp Pendleton’s 21-Area Health Promotion Center describes the effects of junk food that many Marines and sailors consume.
