"Fast Foods" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure,
which enables searching at various levels of specificity.
Prepared food that is ready to eat or partially prepared food that has a final preparation time of a few minutes or less.
| Descriptor ID |
D057140
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| MeSH Number(s) |
G07.203.300.477 J02.500.477
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| Concept/Terms |
Fast Foods- Fast Foods
- Fast Food
- Food, Fast
- Foods, Fast
- Convenience Foods
- Convenience Food
- Food, Convenience
- Foods, Convenience
Ready-Prepared Foods- Ready-Prepared Foods
- Food, Ready-Prepared
- Foods, Ready-Prepared
- Ready Prepared Foods
- Ready-Prepared Food
- Ready-To-Eat Meals
- Ready To Eat Meals
- Meals, Ready-To-Eat
- Meal, Ready-To-Eat
- Meals, Ready To Eat
- Ready-To-Eat Meal
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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 2010 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2015 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2019 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2020 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2023 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 2024 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Fast Foods" by people in Profiles.
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Larcom AB, Lofgren IE, Delmonico MJ, Missimer A, Melanson KJ. Ultra-processed food intake is associated with low diet quality in young adult college students. J Am Coll Health. 2025 12; 73(10):3784-3795.
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Ohri-Vachaspati P, Acciai F, Melnick EM, Lloyd K, Martinelli S, DeWeese RS, DiSantis KI, Tulloch D, DeLia D, Yedidia MJ. Food Environments Within and Outside of Schools Play a Critical Role in Curtailing the Rise in Obesity among School-Aged Children over Time. J Nutr. 2023 12; 153(12):3565-3575.
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Lovasi GS, Boise S, Jogi S, Hurvitz PM, Rundle AG, Diez J, Hirsch JA, Fitzpatrick A, Biggs ML, Siscovick DS. Time-Varying Food Retail and Incident Disease in the Cardiovascular Health Study. Am J Prev Med. 2023 06; 64(6):877-887.
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Fanelli Kuczmarski M, Beydoun MA, Cotugna N, Schwenk E, Evans MK, Zonderman AB. The Relationship of Diet Quality with Proportion of Daily Energy Contributed by Sandwiches Varies by Age over Adulthood in Racially and Socioeconomically Diverse Adults. Nutrients. 2020 Sep 13; 12(9).
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Polak R, Pober D, Berry EM, Mazal T, Arieli R, Ziv M. Improving the quality of foods available in a rural kibbutz cafeteria in Israel to align with a freshly prepared Mediterranean-style diet through a community culinary coaching programme. Public Health Nutr. 2019 12; 22(17):3229-3237.
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Simakova IV, Perkel RL, Kutkina MN, Volovey AG. [?roblems of ensuring the safety of deep-fried fast food products]. Vopr Pitan. 2015; 84(5):112-20.
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Lucan SC, Karpyn A, Sherman S. Storing empty calories and chronic disease risk: snack-food products, nutritive content, and manufacturers in Philadelphia corner stores. J Urban Health. 2010 May; 87(3):394-409.