Processed foods make up 50 percent of the current
american diet. though they are inexpensive and
convenient, especially when you are in a hurry and just
don't have time to make dinner from scratch, processed
foods are unhealthy and contribute to a variety of health
problems. a diet high in processed foods such as boxed
macaroni and cheese, which are yummy but really not
good for you, has been linked to both diabetes and obesity.
processed foods are also sources of butylated
hydroxytoluene (bht) and butylated hydroxyanisole (bha),
two chemical additives that sound very scary and which
are known to cause cancer in humans.
which excerpt from the passage is the clearest example of fluff?
o
a. processed foods are unhealthy and contribute to a variety of
health problems.
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b. two chemical additives that sound very scary
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c. processed foods are also sources of butylated b
(bht) and butylated hydroxyanisole (bha)
roxytoluene
mi

[1] nothing that comes from the desert expresses its extremes better than the unhappy growth of the tree yuccas. tormented, thin forests of it stalk drearily in the high mesas, particularly in that triangular slip that fans out eastward from the meeting of the sierras and coastwise hills. the yucca bristles with bayonet-pointed leaves, dull green, growing shaggy with age like an old [5] man's tangled gray beard, tipped with panicles of foul, greenish blooms. after its death, which is slow, the ghostly hollow network of its woody skeleton, with hardly power to rot, makes even the moonlight fearful. but it isn't always this way. before the yucca has come to flower, while yet its bloom is a luxurious, creamy, cone-shaped bud of the size of a small cabbage, full of sugary sap. the indians twist it deftly out of its fence of daggers and roast the prize for their [10] own delectation why does the author use the words "bayonet-pointed" (line 4) and "fence of daggers" (line 9) to describe the leaves of the yucca tree? . to create an image of the sharp edges of the plant to emphasize how beautiful the plant's leaves are to explain when and where the plant grows to show how afraid the author is of the plant