Healthy Eating
Additives & Preservatives
Junk food needs to have a long shelf life. Since no one wants to pay a lot of money for junk food, to be successful, it must also be relatively cheap. This means that it is usually made with inexpensive ingredients.
In order to maintain predetermined shapes and an appealing texture and taste, junk food contains a number of non-food ingredients or additives. It must also contain preservatives to meet long shelf life requirements.
Children particularly are found to react to some of the additives and preservatives used in junk food, either by becoming hyper-active or by developing allergies to them. What is probably more significant with children is that they lose their taste (or rather never develop a taste) for real food.
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