Eat Right: Junk food ingredients – little presence, large hazards | Parenting News,The Indian Express

There's a reason why junk food is bad for you. Read on to know why

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The acceptability of junk and processed foods and beverages refers to how customers react to and trade-off these products based on the characteristics like taste, texture, appearance, and sense of pleasure. In simple words, acceptability is how eager or interested a customer is in that food type.

That’s why junk food producers are using certain tactics to improve these characteristics to promote acceptability, some of which may harm you more than what you expect. Also, the texture of food plays a significant role in influencing consumers’ perception of “quality” and eating experience. The three major characteristics that determine acceptability are taste, texture and shelf life. Multiple chemicals and synthetic ingredients are used to improve these characteristics of the otherwise calorically dense and nutritionally barren packaged food.

Taste Enhancers

A taste enhancer is a substance that has no taste of its own but has the properties to modify or increase the intensity of the perceived taste or smell of the food. Monosodium glutamate (MSG), artificial sweeteners (e.g. high fructose corn syrup), and sodium chloride (salt) are among the most commonly used taste enhancers in industrial preparations.

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