Junk Food

Fun Facts About Junk Food

• Holes in donuts are mostly a practical innovation to help them cook more evenly, preventing a gooey center while ensuring the outside gets crispy.
• Due to industrial meat processing, a single fast-food hamburger often contains meat from hundreds or even thousands of different cattle.
• Cracker Jack was first introduced at the 1893 Chicago World's Fair. Known for its molasses-coated popcorn, peanuts, and iconic prize in every box, it's unsually considered one of the first great American junk foods.
• Make sure to mark your calendar: National Junk Food Day is July 21st. This unofficial holiday gives everyone an official excuse to indulge in their favorite sweets and snacks.
• Junk food's high sugar, fat and salt triggers a significant release of dopamine in the brain, the same "feel-good" chemical linked to pleasure and reward. This explains why these foods feel so satisfying and are hard to stop eating.
• Doritos were invented at Disneyland in the early-1960s as a way to use up leftover tortillas. They were seasoned and sold as a snack, eventually becoming such a hit that Frito-Lay introduced them nationwide in 1966.
• McDonald's serves about 70 million customers daily, which is greater than the entire population of France or the United Kingdom.
• The bright pink color of bubblegum isn't natural. The original concoction in 1928 had an unappealing gray color, so the inventor added pink food coloring to make it more appealing. Why pink? Because it was the only dye available at the time. This established pink as the industry standard for bubblegum.