What is National Junk Food Day?
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National Junk Food Day, July 21st, features a huge menu of items. Each year, the day allows us to chow down on the foods we normally don't include in our daily diet. Junk foods, by definition, contain high fats, sugars, salt, salt, and calories, with no nutritional value.
Junk food made its way into American life with the introduction of packaged foods in the late 1800s. Nevertheless, home-cooked meals remained the norm for several decades. The artery-clogging industry took off after World War II. Since the population ate out more and travelled further, the industry was expected to produce more at an increasing rate.
A slew of options for customers flooded the market, from the frozen food aisle to fast food franchises. Potato chips, baked goods, and so much more were packed supermarket shelves, prepackaged and ready to go.
Junk foods were a brand by the 1970s, and a bad one too. Michael Jacobson, a microbiologist, is credited with coining the term. He also set out to reduce our appetite for the high sugar, high salt, and high preservative foods that Americans consumed at an alarming rate.
