A donut is a type of fried dough confectionery or dessert food. Donuts are usually deep fried from a flour dough, and typically either ring-shaped or without a hole, often filled. Donuts are often covered with glazes of various sweet syrups (confectioners sugar glaze etc.), sugars, chocolate etc. Donuts are typically small and contain a single donut hole where the donut’s “hole” or inner cavity is. Some donuts have special shapes such as bears, rings, twists, doughnuts, donut drops, donut holes with sprinkles on them and so on. Donuts are often accompanied by coffee when eaten for breakfast, in the same way that British people eat toast with a cup of tea in the morning. It is common to eat donuts on special occasions such as donut day or donut week. Donut weeks are usually celebrated at donut shops, donut festivals and donut theme parks . A donut festival is usually donut week with donut vendors, donuts to eat (from donut shops) and donuts for sale. benefits of eating donuts Donuts are beneficial for donut dieters because donuts don’t usually have a lot of calories and donuts don’t cause a lot of weight gain. This is compared to hamburgers, hot dogs and other types of donut fried foods. Donuts are also good for you when eaten occasionally because donuts contain a small amount of donut nutrients. Donuts don’t usually contain donut substances or donut health risks. Donut ingredients: Donuts contain donut ingredients such as: flour, sugar, yeast, salt, baking powder etc. These donut substances give you energy (donut nutrients) and donuts will not harm you when eaten every once in a while. Donut varieties: There are many donut varieties including : jelly filled, coconut, chocolate glazed, maple bars, Boston cream etc. These donut varieties contain different quantities of calories and carbohydrates so if you must eat jelly filled donuts then you must not eat maple bars or chocolate glazed donuts .