Why eating healthy is so expensive in America

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i'll take the doughnuts instead of the apples. I don't eat apples at all. I don't care about calories, i will just burn it off.

The lady in the video is so beautiful, what's her name

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

@Stalkingwolf here in Italy, for 10 dollars, you can buy, at least, 3kg of apples.

£0.40 for an apple from the super market UK

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

@ragejinraver COMPLEMENTARY PROTEINS

@Livia Claire You are so beyond indoctrinated and brainwashed by BS propaganda it's beyond sad . This is exactly why I say veganism is a cult you use zero common sense and logic and you just spout out nonsense . A majority of the world is lactose intolerant do me a favor and go sit down somewhere smh . You need Jesus

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

not if you refrigerate all produce. If you put an apple in your fridge it will last weeks longer than leaving it out

There are so many healthy dishes you can make with fresh produce when you've got extra like a burrito or fried rice. You can also store some meals in the freezer to have them last longer and just heat it up again to eat it.

Great content, but I also feel like this video missed out on a crucial point as to why there is such high obesity and a potential drawback of a junk food tax: food deserts. Much of the time, poor neighborhoods (which have the highest obesity rates btw) don't even have access to grocery stores that carry fresh food. Many live miles away from any grocery stores, and also lack the means of cars or public transportation systems to get to the nearest store. A two mile distance can mean a daunting hour-long ...

clambismable agree! And the reason food deserts exist is because we allow corporations to control what we eat, to the extent that you point out. If the grocery store corporation doesn’t see a region as being profitable or worth the cost to operate, they won’t put a store there.

clambismable there’s a difference in eating healthy, and eating in moderation. Obesity isn’t all to blame on junk food. It’s people’s lack of self control

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

Yes, in Californi

They are here out of season. $2.50 per apple

To me personally it seems like Americans are just that wasteful.There is literally nothing wrong with eating bruised strawberries. A deformed strawberry is exactly as nutritious as the one that looks picture perfect

@vishu singh In Italy We have a very developed agriculture, especially in the south

@Denis Diderot Good for you..... And i bet you guys have fresh produce of same quality or better for cheaper than whats available in the us

We've got it opposite you can buy 10kg of apples in 10$ and only 7 or 8 donuts for the same

It's 10 pounds for $10 for me

monogram 35 that's awesome where do you live

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

Eating healthy is really not all that expensive.

They literally state that in the video and propose more subsidies on produce to make them cheaper.

instead of just increasing the cost of unhealthy food, which will leave poor people starving, how about trying to focus on how to reduce the cost of healthy food, so people can have an easier choice.If I could buy 1/2lb of blueberries for the same cost as 1/2lb of sweets, I'd buy the blueberries every time.But if they both cost as much as the blueberries do now, it would be unacceptable.

...they said that in the video lol Did you watch the whole thing? They said the government should subsidize (aka lower the price of) healthy foods AND maybe raise the price of processed food. To further encourage people to buy healthy food