Convenient foods have become widely popular especially among working class people, teenage children, people living in hostels, bachelors, sharing rooms etc. Convenience foods are used to shorten the time of <span>meal </span>preparation at home. Some convenient foods can be eaten immediately or after adding some water, heating or thawing.
Some popular, easy to prepare convenient foods are: Masala Oats, Corn flakes, canned soup, frozen foods (sausages, ham, bacon etc), <span>bread </span>etc. Other convenience foods are cake mixes, spice <span>mix powder, sauces</span> etc that are pre-cooked and sold. Most of the convenience foods takes hardly less than<span> 5 minutes</span> to cook the food. They are often prepared or packaged before being consumed and can be used at any time, quickly and easily by thawing or heating the food.
It is a fact that convenient foods are designed to be cheap, tasty and non-perishable but the ingredients added into these packaged products contain added <span>sugars </span>and fats. Trans-fat is typically used as they don’t spoil the food and corn syrup is a cheap way to make the product sweet. <span>Salt </span>can also add awesome flavor very inexpensively to the food. Most of the convenience foods have become very popular because they can be served as a quickie snack or meal.
