Facts about Fast Food

Fast food is takeaways such as McDonald's, KFC, Burger King, Pizza Hut and Subway. It is also classified as cheap meals which are convenient and quick to get. Fast food can also be things sold in shops or supermarkets such as Coke and Sprite which are packaged in bulk, convenience, cheap and processed. What actually makes fast food considered 'Bad'?



Generally fast food isn't as good as good quality as home cooked meals because it is cheap meaning the things that are put in would be more fatty and processed for convenience. It is usually fried, soaked in oil or have had something done to it to make it last longer, taste better and look nicer using added preservatives, colours, flavours, fats and sugars.



Ten Quick Facts about Fast Food:



- Every month 9 out of ten American children visit a McDonald's restaurant.

- Today Coca-Cola products are sold in every country in the world except North Korea.

- There are more then 300,000 fast food restaurants in the U.S alone.

- Children and teenagers on average drink 64 gallons of fizzy drinks a year.

- French fries are the most popular form of fast food in America.

- In 1970 french fries over took regular potato sales in the United States and in 2004 Americans consumed 7.4 billion pounds of frozen french fries all together.

- If you eat a double cheeseburger from Burger King you would need to walk for 9 miles to burn the calories off because it contains 923 calories!

- Type 2 diabetes can be caused by eating fast food because eating it can result in high levels of insulin which is linked to diabetes.

- The average American child sees 10,000 food adverts on television each year.

- McDonald's serve over 40 million customers every day.