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What makes a food an empty-calorie food?

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all of the fats, sugars, and sodium makes a food an empty-calorie food
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Answer:

Solid fats and added sugars add calories to the food but few or no nutrients. For this reason, the calories from solid fats and added sugars in a food are often called empty calories.

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