Why eating healthy is so expensive in America

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*Eating healthy is **_NOT_** expensive in America.* Apples are a great, healthy fruit to include in the diet. But it's foolish to assume that their calorie price-point represents ALL "healthy" foods. Bananas cost much less, for example. Yes, we need lots of fruits and veggies. But the ultimate source of healthy calories should be WHOLE GRAINS and LEGUMES. Rice is cheap. Same for beans, wheat and oats. And these are healthy! They should serve as the backbone upon which our diet is built.

How do you correlate cigarette prices with consumption? There is more than price as a factor here... correlation =/= causation. Just like if apples became the exact same price as donuts, i would presume that many people would still choose donuts.

Do 5 apples seriously cost $10!? USA truly is the upside down.

In Spain its 2-3 € per Kg

Bag of organic apples are $5-$6 . They usually have about 6 per bag

$2??!!!?? for an apple!!??? in europe they’re like €0.30 lol

In France we have markets every saturday or sunday by the locals who sale their own fruits and vegetables and they are usually better than the supermarket and not that expensive tbh and 1kg of apple is like 1euro ? lol idk

+Calichick310 They are well under 50p in the UK.

So taxing is meant to only force me to buy more expensive items?? Doesn't seem like a very good solution.

+zenubi unfortunately, may not help all. its a start

+jason lee right... sure ny unexistant patio

do NOT add taxes to unhealthy foods. this will only hurt the working class. instead, subsidize healthy produce.

@jason lee I also prefer low cost, healthy solutions , and my point was offering in-store rebates and subsidies to decrease production cost would provide more affordable health food. This is would be more beneficial than increasing the price of junk food through taxes making food more expensive for the poor and doing nothing to help decrease the price of healthier alternatives.

+Coach Hill who pays the medical costs when they get sick from diseases associated with high cholesterol, sodium, etc? I prefer offering lower cost, less intake healthy solutions.

Fresh produce rots so fast - that is part of the cost equation, compared to processed

+Livia Claire I agree

Exactly. Fresh produce have a very short shelf-life.

"The apples are organic" mate I grow my own and I'm telling you no Apple should cost over $1

lalaithan economies of scale make cost per product cheaper, not more expensive.

apple is not expensive in Canada!!!! i just got some ambrosia apple for $ 1.29 per pound. and that is in cad, in usd it is $ 1 per pound. Canada grow our own apple mostly except for a few provinces in the praires. we also buy some specialties apples from us too.+Donald Trump

There's a lot of pointless nit-picking in the comments. People quibbling over the price of an apple are missing the point of this video: that healthy eating can often be prohibitively expensive for many people in America, especially when you take into account that TIME IS MONEY. For people who are working multiple jobs, they might not have the time or energy to spend multiple hours grocery shopping, cooking, washing up, etc. They could have spent that time earning the money they need to keep the lights...

​+Whuzzin Gamont Employers in the U.S. are required to give employees a 30-minute lunch break for every 8 hours worked.

+Parker the obese population is costing the US 13 billion dollars. *(From a single year)*And a lot of that money is coming from our taxes. I'm not going to work so obese people can have health care. It affects us too.

Just put more pineapple on pizza

The Canadians made pineapple pizza, not the Americans, lol.

+Saturn Your tongue sucks, so does your face & your existence.

Lol so let me get this straight.We need a junkfood tax so that poor people can go from eating garbage to starving.I don't see any weaknesses with this solution.

+Sagar Rao USA is far from the richest country in the world, not even in the top 10.

You're the richest country in the world. Why do you even have poor people?