• Prashant Sarothiya
• Rishi Shukla

Adolescents and young adults are found to have fast food as more tempting and to be relatively more interested in soft drinks consumption. The frequency of consumption of fast foods is found more among people in their teens and in their twenties. Fast foods are quick to prepare, easy to access, moder¬ately inexpensive, and favored by people of most age groups contain high levels of energy, sugar, and salt, along with low levels of micronutrients and fiber. The present study is to comprehend fast food consumption habits amongst youngsters in Indore City and their awareness for nutritional value, weight gain and health hazards with fast food consumption. The study was conducted in District Indore, quantitative techniques were used for this study to capture all the possible aspects of food consumption habits, the study comprised of structured questionnaire survey, data was collected through self developed questionnaire, t-test was used to test the hypotheses and percentage analysis were used to analyze the rest of the data.

Fast food, Health hazards, youngsters, awareness, home cooked foods

"“Food Consumption habits of youngsters of Indore City: An Empirical Study”", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 4, page no.532-541, April-2019, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1904T71.pdf

"“Food Consumption habits of youngsters of Indore City: An Empirical Study”", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 4, page no. pp532-541, April-2019, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1904T71.pdf