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    survey:"junk" what foods do u consider to be junk food?

    Posts: 534 Member
    edited February 4 in Food and Nutrition
    A friend of mine thinks she eates a lot of junk, but i think her definition of junk food is warped. What do u define as junk?

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    • Posts: 26,368 Member
      Typically packaged cookies, candy bars, croissants, donuts, pastries, ice cream etc is what I'd call junk. Then there's 'ok' junk like ice cream, and the horrible stuff like candy bars. Doesn't mean I don't eat them though.
    • Posts: 531 Member
      To me, junk is anything that has calories and no nutritional value. Things like chips and candy bars.
    • Posts: 12,589 Member
      Kale. it's gross, otherwise nothing.
    • Posts: 232 Member
      Pretty much any food prepared in a factory that comes in a box or a bag and doesn't require refrigeration and has more than 2 ingredients.
    • Posts: 12,589 Member
      To me, junk is anything that has calories and no nutritional value. Things like chips and candy bars.

      Please explain this "no nutritional value" statement.
    • Posts: 7,512 Member
      anything covered in feces or fell on the floor also if it's rotten covered in mold
    • Posts: 3,536 Member
      Kale. it's gross, otherwise nothing.

      Oh Yeah Kale sucks!! lol and I am with you lets not label food good or bad.... Enjoy the foods you love, each to your caloric intake and live your life...... Best of Luck
    • Posts: 3,536 Member
      anything covered in feces or fell on the floor also if it's rotten covered in mold

      oh I agree with the feces and mold but the 5 second rule always applies on the falling on the floor..... lol
    • Posts: 534 Member
      Yup. I totally agree with those who said anything about no nutritional value and anything made and packaged in a factory....
    • Posts: 283 Member
      made and packaged in a factory...? So... peanut butter? Olive oil? Protein powder?
    • Posts: 175 Member
      Anything with no nutitional value.
    • Posts: 13,247 Member
      Things with very little nutritional value that aren't really even all that tasty. Cheesy poofs or Twinkies.

      However, potato chips and Raspberry Zingers are not junk food. Because they're delicious.
    • Posts: 58 Member
      junk = things I will feel guilty about eating


















      but I still eat them sometimes
    • Posts: 534 Member
      Stuff with numerous ingredients that are difficult to pronounce. Stuff that can live on inside a package for many months... Even years.
    • Posts: 1,444 Member
      Chips, candy, cookies,cake, pie, bread, sweetened beverages including bottled juices, anything with added sugar, anything with hydrogenated oils, pancakes, donuts, individual packets of sweetened oatmeal, cured meats, french fries, pasta, batter fried anything.
    • Posts: 201 Member
      Chips, pizza, cookies, cake, pie, ice cream...you know...all the junky junk food. Most of which is documented in my food diary. :tongue:
    • Posts: 894 Member
      "Junk food" for me is anything that does not provide an over all nutritional benefit of some sort.
    • Posts: 484 Member
      Pretty much any food prepared in a factory that comes in a box or a bag and doesn't require refrigeration and has more than 2 ingredients.

      How would you feel about an apple that had been put in a cardboard box by assembly line workers?
    • Posts: 755 Member
      Pretty much any food prepared in a factory that comes in a box or a bag and doesn't require refrigeration and has more than 2 ingredients.

      What about mixed nuts or trail mixes? I dont think of all of those as junk food.
    • Posts: 2,219 Member
      I prefer to call them "discretionary calories" and I define them as foods that offer little to no protein and are calorie dense, heavy on the carbs and fats. I don't consider them "bad" or "junk" but they don't make up a lot of my day because they don't fit my macros. Once my protein goal is met though, BRING IT!
    • Posts: 6,208 Member
      Okra
    • Posts: 12,142 Member
      Stuff with numerous ingredients that are difficult to pronounce. Stuff that can live on inside a package for many months... Even years.

      What you eat something that was made up of the below?

      Alpha-Linolenic-Acid, Asparagine, D-Categin, Isoqurctrin, Hyperoside, Ferulic-Acid, Farnesene, Neoxathin, Phosphatidyl-Choline, Reynoutrin, Sinapic-Acid, Caffeic-Acid, Chlorogenic-Acid, P-Hydroxy-Benzoic-Acid, P-Coumaric-Acid, Avicularin, Lutein, Quercitin, Rutin, Ursolic-Acid, Protocatechuic-Acid, Silver, Tryptophan, Threonine, Isoleucine, Leucine, Lycine, Methionine, Cystine, Phenylalanine, Tyrosine, Valine, Argenine, Histidine, Alanine, Aspartic Acid, Glutamic Acid, Glycine, Proline, and Serine
    • Posts: 662 Member
      Things that are basically all carbs and little to no vitamins, minerals, proteins. Things that are high in bad fats and/or high in added sugars. Or stuff with a ton of preservatives and processes added.
      Still has its' place though, for the noms.
    • Posts: 612 Member
      Don't really consider anything to be 'junk' as such. I don't eat lollies (sugary candy) that much, but only because I don't really like them.

      My kid's school has been on a 'good' food/'bad' food hype this year which is driving me mental. The kids come home and say "oh we can't have that, it has fat/sugar/blah blah in it". The ONLY things I don't allow are the things they are actually allergic to, and I limit artificial colours and the nastier preservatives, because they cause my kids to have reactions. Hell, even I react to them.

      So I taught them about how protein, fat, carbs etc work and now they will happily chow down on anything, although they like high protein stuff best because it helps your muscles :wink: They are both extremely active and athletic kids, so they need to eat all the food they can get :smile:
    • Posts: 139 Member
      Anything with artificial flavours, colours and preservatives. Sadly, a lot falls into this category by my definition.
    • Posts: 232 Member
      made and packaged in a factory...? So... peanut butter? Olive oil? Protein powder?

      If you were referencing my comment, you apparently stopped reading too soon. My peanut butter and olive oil wouldn't qualify as junk food under my definition.

      I don't use protein powder, but some would qualify and some wouldn't.
    • Posts: 5,922 Member
      Rice.

      I just can't justify those carbs in place of carbs I'd actually enjoy.
    • Posts: 232 Member
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      How would you feel about an apple that had been put in a cardboard box by assembly line workers?

      Since that would only have one ingredient, it wouldn't count as junk food under my definition.
      What about mixed nuts or trail mixes? I dont think of all of those as junk food.

      I agree with you, some of those shouldn't count. You found a limitation of my model. : )
    • Posts: 283 Member
      show previous quotes

      If you were referencing my comment, you apparently stopped reading too soon. My peanut butter and olive oil wouldn't qualify as junk food under my definition.

      I don't use protein powder, but some would qualify and some wouldn't.

      I wasn't
    • Posts: 92 Member
      Pretty much any food prepared in a factory that comes in a box or a bag and doesn't require refrigeration and has more than 2 ingredients.

      This!
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