Empty calories.
Empty calories are calories that don't give your body any nutrition. An example is cake because it doesn't give your body any nutrition, but it is very caloric.
Empty calories can exist in any food group. But usually they are found most commonly in dairy (high-fat), high-fat content meats, refined white grains and sugars, and especially in desserts.
Lack of nutrients ("empty calories") in the food. And there are many deficiencies, even in America.
Junk food would. It's just empty calories with no actual nutrition.
Sugar, which has 16 calories per teaspoon has no vitamins or minerals.
It is very easy to exceed your empty calorie allowance, even when making careful food choices. Fats are concentrated sources of calories.
An empty calorie food is one that has little or no nutritional value. Twinkies brand snack cakes, for example, are empty because they have much sugar and fat, but very little protein and no vitamins or minerals.
Because all those empty calories are sugar.
Although ice cream is very high in calories, it is still a dairy food which contains the same nutrients found in milk. So it is not entirely empty. Doubtlessly there are better food choices.
An empty calories is a loose term that refers to a food / drink that contains calories of no nutritional value. In other words, all of the calories are not "good". They do not come from vitamins, minerlas, calcium, fiber, ect. Instead, most will come from sugars or fats, and the calories in general are not needed nor are they a help for the body.
I don't know what empty calories mean, but I like Crystal Lite. Only 5 calories per glass - no sugar - no fat.