20 Junk Foods That Were Actually HEALTHY in The 1970s!
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- 20 Junk Foods That Were Actually HEALTHY in The 1970s!
Discover a surprising truth about 1970s "junk" foods in this video. We explore 20 popular snacks and treats that were actually healthier back then, with fewer chemicals, preservatives, and overall simpler ingredients. Join us as we uncover the wholesome side of these nostalgic favorites and ponder why their recipes changed over time.
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Show me one food from the 70's that isn't healthier than today's version. All the chemicals they put in food now days may increase the shelf life of the food but it won't increase YOUR shelf life!
Literally. Not even a strawberry is healthier now
They put chemicals in food to make people sick,that benefits the corrupt medical industry and big pharma
fruit from conventional markets is atrocious. it's no wonder no one eats fresh fruit and veg any more. i go to a local farmers market where the fruit and veg tastes like i remember!
Increasing shelf life is the bogus excuse. No need to increase shelf life if people are snapping up your healthy products right off the shelves.
ok, too easy. everything with nonhuman fellow animal products. Whereas now there’s good healthy versions. you’re correct there’s more artificial chemicals now but it doesn’t mean it was healthier.
These chemicals, preservatives, and poisons need to be illegal and banned in the U.S. !!! 😡🔥👹 Crime Against Humanity!!!
Many are in Europe, but not here?!
Well said!!!!!
Agreed!
Always knew food tasted better back than. Now it makes sense why.
Even produce tasted better back then. Some say we're imagining that because as we get older our perception of taste changes. But if you eat homegrown produce, you know that's not the case.
Wished they would go back to making things like they did in the 70’s, and stop using high fructose corn syrup and other poison.
Junk food back then had significantly fewer man-made chemicals, dyes, and flavorings than modern junk food has.
Just look at videos of crowds of people back in the 60s,70s, even 80s there were far few fat or obese people especially kids. Its obvious our foods are making us fat sick and tired and big pharma is laughing all the way to the bank. Sad.
agree 100 percent with you.
Kids back then were outside burning off the calories not sitting on their ass with a video game.
true. though I watched tv, I played a lot outside plus rode my bike.
The companies that produce these snacks charge as if they were using real food.
I wish we could do a taste test of these products… the original to today’s version.
I did a home made Twinkie that was delightful but by day 3…
Glass soda bottles. I was never a big soda, but remember getting an occasion Sprite in a green, dimpled glass bottle.
I agree , there should be a movement to move away from plastic and back to glass. There used to be nothing more refreshing for me than an Orange Crush in the old dark brown bottle on a hot day.
😫 Food just tasted so much better back then.
Food tasted way better back in the 1970s.
I’m showing this video to my grandkids. They always scoff at me when I say these food tasted way better when I was a kid and I just can’t eat any of them now. Mac n cheese especially which was my favorite as a kid. I make mine from scratch
Yeah. I was an 80's baby and I remember certain food tasting better. Coke for example was made with real sugar (and the ones in Mexico that they import to the USA still do).
So I'm not crazy when I say that Twinkies in my childhood tasted better 😁
So much better!
No it's not you they actually suck anymore
Depends on your age…
Twinkies tasted better in the 90’s too!!
I'm 59-years old and ate my first Twinkie 6-years ago. I don't know what they tasted llike in the old day, but the one I ate had a chemical taste....YUCK!
I’d have to be in full blown starvation mode to eat one of those now. They tasted pretty good back in the 70s.
I could imagine the public showing a preference for natural food items if they were offered, even if it has a slightly elevated cost. If I could buy a food item, and had to pay a few cents extra for the natural ingredients, I would gladly pay the difference.
I would not.
I've yet to find an "organic" or "natural" food that tastes any better than the conventional versions.
There is no need for higher cost for real food.
The old Heinz ketchup commercial with Carly Simon singing Anticipation. Haven’t heard that one in 45 years.
Darn! I don't feel safe eating any these foods now. I catch myself reading all the ingredients in everything we buy to eat now. Most now say contains bio engineered ingredient.
I specifically seek those out - higher yields that feed more people worldwide using the same farmland.
All food is toxic, including organic. But it's better to opt for non GMO organic.
Yet, more people and children are overweight or obese, now. Maybe chemicals are worse for us and inactivity.
Yes. We all grew up moving around tons more. Just bot having computers or cell phones. You could talk on the phone… until someone else needed it. You could watch tv… but we only started having options beyond scheduled tv (ie. 3-5 networks with their channel programs, and no replays or repeats. If you want the new episode of Little House on the Prairie or Charlie’s Angels, you had to tune in the scheduled day and time.)
We played in the neighborhoods. We did sports, learned instruments. Rode bikes. Skated (later, bladed). We just were not glued to screens.
And the summer I spent in Tonga, I ate well but lost 8 pounds in 2 months. No chemicals in the foods.
In some ways, the " good old days" really were.😮
In some ways!
Well we know the music and food were a lot better and so was just about everything else.
“Fortified” means: They stripped the product of all the nutrition, then put 1% of it back.
yes indeed
I remember a lot of these old commercials and the snacks. I was 14 in 1970
Would love to see a video on ice cream from the past that we miss!
What got me was once I stopped by a local coffee shop, it is a famous chain in Canada. Not hard to figure out, I bought a muffin and coffee took went for a hike. Not eating the muffin I put it in the console of a black vehicle this was in march and forgot all about it. I was looking for something in the car around September/ October I came across this bag and remembered want it was. Thinking I had a science experiment being a guy I looked in and found it was the same as the day I bought it wasn’t even hard it felt like it just came out of the oven. I have never been back to that chain or pretty much all fast food places, I only buy baked goods if I don’t make them myself is buy from a mom and pop shops.
Same experiment done with McDonald's burger and fries. Same results left for an even longer time.
Make everything at home from ingredients you know are as "clean" as possible. That is the only answer to today's garbage. Old enough to remember when there was actual food in the cans and glass containers. Tasted way better too. Always make my own bread. Used to like Frito corn chips....bought a bag one time ate a couple, threw out the rest of them...that was the last time I ate them and that was many years ago.
@5:45 i believe a few short uears ago, there was a consumer protest that made Kraft use a little papyrika instead of artificial coloring in the cheese pack.
We ate these items in moderation. But the ingredients were basic as talked about in this video. We also had family meals too. Obesity wasnt a problem back then like it is now. It just wasn't. I was there then and now.
Same here. We just didn't eat nearly as much junk food in the 50s 60s 70s. Obesity was very rare. How tragic is the condition of our food supply now.
buy macaronie add your own homemade cheese to it.
Would love to see a video on the top 20 cakes and pies from the past that we still love today!
Yes! The old apple and blueberry pies I used to love as a teenager. Stuff I could never get away with eating regularly today but nice to dream about.
Bring back the old recipes I would rather have shorter shelf life and better ingredients over longer shelf life and worse ingredients
Exactly why we've seen a drastic increase in children who are autistic .its the food!
Tbh its everything: the air we breathe, the water we drink, the soap we clean ourselves with etc. .
Do you really think that Autism is created in kids from food they eat? Personally I believe that most people with Autism are born that way....
I say that because I'm on the spectrum. I was born that way. It wasn't caused by chemicals in food. Lol.
I do believe the chemicals in food can cause obesity and other health issues. But Autism is "born not made".
Wasn't that Bert (Cowardly Lion) Lahr peddling the Lays potato chips?
Yes it was.
Yup, and Tim Conway on the TV at the beginning of Lay's.
Good eye! I would have guessed…if I had the courage to…
Yes. Keanu Reeves was eating cornflakes
Twinkies were real sponge cake and cream filling and really good . They are a completely different thing now and should be called faux twinkies just like so many other junk food snacks
Why don’t they go back to this and dump all the chemicals
Money, money and money.
Money!!
Always money. The creepy Bottom Line.
Greed.
Money and also i truly think they want people addicted to this garbage food.
Favorite chips: Doritos Nacho Cheese and Frito's BBQ flavors.
It was junk then and junkier now.
This is a great video. I grew up as a child in the 60's and 70's , graduated from high school in the 70's and ate all of these snacks or sugary cereals like captain crunch or froot loops or whatever. There was no epidemic of childhood obesity back then but i thought it was because kids were so much more active. In the 60's and 70's kids would go out and play after breakfast or lunch and be out all day and would return till dinner time. There was no electronics to tie us down so we were always running around and we seemed to have boundless energy. We were always running around , riding bikes, at the playground or the park. I played sports and literally had no fat, I was skinny the whole time and so were other kids I knew yet we ate all those products. This video makes sense. Thank you 😊
This is also true. Nintendo and Sega came along when I was a kid and although we still went outside to play, things changed a lot by the mid-90’s.
I think that was Keanu Reeves in the Corn Flakes commercial.
This is why people from the 1970s were so thin lol
We weren't thin so much as not obese. Some were 10-20 lbs overnight, but not the 300 pounders common today. In my entire K-12 years in the 50s-60s there were only 2 or 3 fat kids in the entire school. Seriously, it's really sad what our corrupted food supply has done to us.
@@denisefarmer366Maybe a few more fat kids in the 70s and 80s but nothing compared to now. What was once considered fat is now slightly overweight too 🤦♂️
Oh I know you didn't see all these fat people like you do now it's gotten out of control
Oh wow! I could get 3000 calories worth of Grape Nuts down without even thinking. No grapes. No nuts.
Healthier doesnt mean healthy but I get what you're going for you in this video
Almost all of the dark sodas now have phosphate added too. Phosphate was a fertilizer that was found not to be good on crops so they sold it as a preservative. People with kidney disease need to limit phosphates plus phosphates can add to osteoporosis
I realized this long ago when I watched the popular dance show Soul Train. There was not ONE overweight person on that show! Everyone looked healthy and slim.
I was born in the 80’s and grew up in the 90’s. I was a chubby little girl. I didn’t overeat, and I only consumed what my parents bought from the grocery store. Apple Cinnamon Cheerios, Ritz Bits cheese crackers and Cheeto Paws were my fave snacks. We ate those freeze pops in the summer and drank jug juices. I only ate these snacks in moderation and my mom cooked most of our meals. Happy Meals were pretty normal in consumption, but only if she didn’t have time to cook.
Both of my parents were/are pretty slim. They didn’t know that their favorite snacks from the 60’s and 70’s were laced with awful preservatives and additives by the time I was born. They just gave me what they ate, but it affected me in a different way. I developed very early. It could’ve been partly genetic, but I truly think all of the high fructose corn syrups, addictives and chemicals were an added factor.
Thank you for bringing this video to the forefront to show how much these greedy companies do not care about the health of their consumers. I’m sure they aren’t happy with this video. But you’re saving lives because of it. I have some Lays I brought at work and I’m going to throw them away. God Bless you. 🙏🏽✨
That and the drugs were pretty good too coke specially in the 70s and 80s.
I think that to some extent, you have been overcome by nostalgia. Many of those foods were unhealthy back then as well and some of their advertising was an attempt to make them only seem healthy. For example, one brand of bread advertised it helped build strong bodies 8 ways. That was about it containing some vitamins and minerals and perhaps it also included the small amount of protein or the carbohydrates for energy. Later, to make it seem even better, it was advertised as helping build strong bodies 12 ways. Were a few vitamins added? White bread was never "healthy." Twinkies and other sweet baked goods were never either. Sugar is marginally better than high fructose corn syrup, but your doctor will not recommend that you consume either.
Yeah, but no one food is going to provide all of your nutritional needs, not even "back in the day". A varied diet is always important, and _occasional_ consumption of junk food isn't going to be a problem unless you have allergies.
The ingredients are the issue here, not so much advertising ploys.
Shout out to Jaleel “Steve Urkel” White in the Oreo commercial. He was so stinking cute!
I'm 60 and now I know why I stopped eating most junk foods
Yeah because they suck
The first time I noticed high fructose corn syrup in the ingredients list was in the late 70s, on a can of Hawaiian Punch.
Another thing I remember was liking Hershey bars. The last time I had one was 2 years ago, and I hated it. No, I’ve never lost my sweet tooth, and love Cadbury and some other chocolate brands l but the Hershey bar tasted a bit like vomit.
Most processed foods are much too salty for me to stand. No wonder I can’t enjoy Campbell’s soup, among other items.
Try Lily’s chocolate and Bake Believe for healthier chocolate. They’re sweetened with stevia and have only “clean” ingredients. I was glad to find them to have a guilt-free treat now and then. My favorite is the Dark chocolate baking chips… yum! Both are available from Wal Mart and sometimes Target.
I noticed 3 years ago Hershey bars give me diarrhea. I stopped eating all chocolate 2 years ago. I'll eat a few Jr. mints occasionally.
before high fructose corn syrup and other fillers.
We need to go back to the original recipes.
IT IS. LIKE NO. MATTER WHAT. YOU EAT. NOTHING. IS GOOD. FOR. YOU
Whole plants…if you know who grew them. But am I supposed to farm my whole meal ?
Bingo that's the point.
Many parts of a pine tree are eatable. 😆
Edible.
Euell Gibbons. Was a household name back then because of those ads.
The only part I think not edible is the wood. Bark, needles, cones all A-ok.
we can make our own chips now.
1. slice potatoes very thin
2. throw in frying pan with natural vegestable oil like you're frying up some homemade fries
3. add any seasonings if you wish to give them different flavorings as well as a little salt
You have potato chips as they originally were.
@@3Storms thanks that was very nice
Very interesting , I didn't know this.
Saying "vegetable oil" is a misnomer as it is anything but natural.
i remember eating screaming yellow zonkers and steve's ice cream pints and chewing the 6 foot long bubble gum were my favorite in the 80's
Surely no one objects to enduring a few health concerns as long as our Gubment representatives are free to enrich themselves at our expense.
Is that Steve Urkel loving on those Oreos at 4:39?
Yup! 😊
*except they weren’t. They were still made with products from fellow animals (which is bad for all you can think of) and they still had artificial chemicals just less so and the legalities of the labeling was different.*
oh well maybe we can make our own cheeses.
Oh! My mom ate liver every week for a while because it was supposed to be good for her.
I still do.
Had to get 'em hooked first and make 'em think "It's normal". Then do the harmful "bait 'n' switch".
TV was healthier in the '70s too... and even healthier than that in the '60s and '50s.
Yup
The versions of these things now taste nothing like they once did. Not even tempted to eat these industrial chemical disease-bombs. Had a graham cracker lately? 🤢
Ugh I have ended up throwing the box away
there were more potato chip brands, too. we used to get granny goose who was bought by lays.
Gross question:
Has anyone else eaten Oreos and it makes your poop black?
I try not to eat Oreos anymore, because even before watching this, I suspected that the recipe was changed for the worse. I used to love Oreos as much as the next kid, but now, they seem kinda insipid.
I know a yummy chocolate cookie when I taste one, and modern Oreos taste nothing like it.
@@diatribe5 Agreed. Synthetic tasting now.
Yep. Don't eat them anymore.
Sorry, but you should get your facts straight on ORIGINAL Grape-Nuts. They STILL contain only 4 ingredients - Whole grain wheat flour, malted barley flour, salt and dried yeast. No added sugars. Post makes Grape-Nut Flakes, and that product DOES contain added sugar. Original Grape-Nuts is one of the few cold cereals I still buy. Some types of Shredded Wheat without BHT,Uncle Sam Cereal (now hard to find) and regular Oatmeal are are other 3 I know that have been around for over a hundred years, and still worth buying. I grew up on Corn Flakes in the 60’s , but wouldn’t give a plug nickel for them now!
So it's not my imagination that things don't taste as good today as they did back then. Or it could be that my taste buds are just getting old.
No it's not your taste buds
It's an informative video, but what's left out is that the more wholesome past-time snacks were, just like today, packaged in plastic which can leach into the product.
Pepperidge Farms remembers
They were never considered healthy snacks in the 70s..Healthier then than now doesn't mean healthy and were never considered healthy in the 70s. I gave birth to my 1st 3 children in the nid 70s. I was there. HFCS started replacing real sugar in 1978. Those sweet snacks are the exact same recipe now as they were then. Same ingredients. I was a young mother then, always reading labels and researching as usual.
I loved the Hostess Ding Dongs.
I think this goes for all foods from then to now. 🤷🏻♀️
The changes to Twinkies and Hersheys was so disappointing to me. They were my favorites and it was very noticeable when they changed the recipe. All the Hostess cakes used to be really good.
I didn’t know the Kellogg’s chicken had a name
Dipsy Doodles tasted cleaner than today's Fritos corn chips
So we are moving ever closer to eating Soylent Green. 😢
Simple solution: American Coke, High Fructose Corn Syrup vs. Mexican Coke, real sugar....Mexican Twinkle, Mexican Pepsi, etc etc etc.
I ate my share of sweets growing up but I wasn’t overweight.
Some of the ads shown are actually from the 80s...though the product is 70s or earlier.
You lost me when you said that the original Snickers bar was healthier. It was never a healthy treat.
Everything has changed..it shouldn't surprise us..why does it surprise people??
What is straightforward drink / taste etc. ?
Let’s go back to the foods made the way they used to be!! ( to expensive they’ll say!)
*and speaking of inaccuracies, can you please change your name or include the rest of america too? thanks and have a nice week(:*
surprise, surprise, surprise, commercial cereal's all have simple syrup and lactose along with a dozen and one additives, wow......... who 'da thunk'd it.................
Almost everything was healthier back then. Before the YUPPIE crowd stepped in an started poisoning our food with so called healthy substitutes which were only now finding out are killing up. That's why we cook almost everything fresh from scratch without all the yuppie chemicals added. And when I do buy packaged items I choose specific items like real tuna packed in oil, not the flavorless garbage packed in water. With processed food your always hungry, but with fresh food you're full and you don't have to take daily vitamins to live a healthy life. You already get everything you need to stay healthy.
Upvote for "YUPPIE". Few these days even know what I'm talking about when I mention them. 😂
Tuna in oil tastes so much better than the water one.
Notice they use the words diabetes and other heath risks?
Would rather see a video that talks about how good foods were in the past. Don’t want to watch a negative video about all the bad things in food. This video could have been great if you had just talked about how healthy the foods used to be.
Butthurt boomer lol
All these additives are killers.
In defense of big business
Do you know how hard it is to feed 350,000,000 people?
Ive been trying to build a self sufficient farm to feed myself for 8 years now and still cant.
Food back then taste clean, now days food taste heavy and hurts your stomach.
Wonder Bread and all standard white bread is nasty. My mom only bought Roman Meal. Now at almost 60-years old, I still only buy whole wheat/natural grain breads.
Lay's potato chips are the worst Very greasy and too much salt
Don’t forget to mention that since the old days, you also pay for half of the bag to be air.
In the early 90s, if I bought a full sized bag of any brand of chips, they were filled all the way to the top, so when I opened the bag, they flew out some.
Oatmeal. Ick. Big tablespoon of butter, and 5 tablespoons of sugar, and it was still inedible. Malt-o-meal the same.
Personally, I find 3 spoons of sugar along with butter and cinnamon helps get it down.
At least we can thank the good old USA for listing ingredients.....this way we know how the companies are killing us 🥰
Twinkies and cookies are not the same taste or texture today. Today they just taste like sugar.
People pro capitalism without regulation are nuts. THe ultra Rich people are going to make money regardless and the regulation needs to be made to follow them more. make things better for the rest of us by getting these chemicals and greed out of society!
Support with your wallets. Avoid processed foods with high fructose corn syrup, any ingredients that you can't pronounce, and bioengineered ingredients. Stop buying processed foods and companies will get the memo. Hurt big companies wallets and they will shift back to natural ingredients.
Twinkies were always junk food to me!
Now they have electrolytes! Because that's what people crave!
All the food they mention now that has "zero calories" is not the food itself they're talking about. The only thing that has zero calories is the packaging and the cardboard box it comes in! It's all trickery 😂😂😂😂😂😂