According to Encarta Dictionaries (2009), Junk food is a food lacking in nutritional balance: food that does not form part of a well-balanced diet, especially highly processed, high-fat snack items eaten in place of or in addition to regular meals. College students with their busy schedule do not really mind of what they put inside their stomach as long as they have something to munch in, satisfy their hunger, and have something to digest inside their stomach. According to Krucik (2014), junk food often contains too much calories and too little nutrition. If junk food is a regular component of a student’s diet, the student might find himself/herself struggling with weight problems and ill health. Food is a fuel for a student’s body and has
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Flavorings like monosodium glutamate, that would make the junk food taste a little bit sweet, a little bit salty, cheesy and chocolatey things like that makes the food attractive to buyers and palatable to our taste. According to Guyenet (2011), many human studies have shown that people eat more food at a sitting if the food is higher palatability than if it is lower palatability. This is true even if palatability is manipulated using substances that have little or no impact on the nutritional quality of the food, including saccharin (sweet), monosodium glutamate (savory) and herbs/spices. Furthermore according to Cooper (2015): The reasons why we crave for junk food: (1) food pleasure is something that we get from a combination of caloric stimulation by micronutrients – Sensory factors the most contribute to pleasure are salty taste, sweet taste, umami taste – from monosodium glutamate, and orosensation. (2) Many of our favourite food are supernatural combinations of salt, fat and sugar. Furthermore, according Fernstorm, et al. (2000) Monosodium glutamate is the sodium salt of glutamic acid. Glutamate is a naturally occurring amino acid that is found in nearly all foods, especially high protein foods such as dairy products, meat and fish and in many vegetables. Foods often used for their flavouring properties, such as mushrooms and tomatoes, have high levels of naturally …show more content…
The above mentioned physical and mental results can be a valid proof that junk food should be banned in the kiosks of Silliman University. According to the survey conducted, 33% of the student, which is the majority, claimed that the kinds of junk food the students want to be banned are the chips, followed by 31% of the students claiming that they wanted soft drinks to be banned, while the minority with 18% of the students wanted to ban candies, followed by 12% claimed to ban chocolates and 6% of the respondents suggested pansit canton as a part of the junk
Flavorings like monosodium glutamate, that would make the junk food taste a little bit sweet, a little bit salty, cheesy and chocolatey things like that makes the food attractive to buyers and palatable to our taste. According to Guyenet (2011), many human studies have shown that people eat more food at a sitting if the food is higher palatability than if it is lower palatability. This is true even if palatability is manipulated using substances that have little or no impact on the nutritional quality of the food, including saccharin (sweet), monosodium glutamate (savory) and herbs/spices. Furthermore according to Cooper (2015): The reasons why we crave for junk food: (1) food pleasure is something that we get from a combination of caloric stimulation by micronutrients – Sensory factors the most contribute to pleasure are salty taste, sweet taste, umami taste – from monosodium glutamate, and orosensation. (2) Many of our favourite food are supernatural combinations of salt, fat and sugar. Furthermore, according Fernstorm, et al. (2000) Monosodium glutamate is the sodium salt of glutamic acid. Glutamate is a naturally occurring amino acid that is found in nearly all foods, especially high protein foods such as dairy products, meat and fish and in many vegetables. Foods often used for their flavouring properties, such as mushrooms and tomatoes, have high levels of naturally …show more content…
The above mentioned physical and mental results can be a valid proof that junk food should be banned in the kiosks of Silliman University. According to the survey conducted, 33% of the student, which is the majority, claimed that the kinds of junk food the students want to be banned are the chips, followed by 31% of the students claiming that they wanted soft drinks to be banned, while the minority with 18% of the students wanted to ban candies, followed by 12% claimed to ban chocolates and 6% of the respondents suggested pansit canton as a part of the junk