“Ultraprocessed” has become a bad word in our food supply, but regulators are struggling with how to define the term to help consumers. Here’s why that’s so hard to do.
I’m lucky to live somewhere where I have a selection of supermarkets that I can walk to which all stock fresh foods for reasonable prices, sounds like you’re in a similar situation.
In America they have loads of these “food deserts” (old article now, but it’s gotten worse) where the only place you can buy food without having to drive an hour, is a Dollar General store that only sells shelf stable, processed rubbish. There’s no amount of money you can spend in those towns to get anything fresh, not that the residents typically have much to spend anyway.
Those residents also can’t often afford to live anywhere else, or they’d have already moved; so they’re kinda of stuck in a situation that’ll make their lives worse with very little they can do to remediate it themselves.
Pretty sure you can buy rice and beans at dollar general? I have to go off search engine previews though, because the website doesn’t work for me (and I don’t live near any)
Edit: missed they said veggies, I guess that’s where the issue is. But canned veggies are better than a lot of other foods you could be buying, even if they are “processed”.
Even when they advertise stuff they are out all the time. The family dollar in my nearest food desert will be out of rice more times than not and the beans are more expensive than the grocery store in the next town they can’t afford to get to. It’s abysmal.
If you can get them.
I’m lucky to live somewhere where I have a selection of supermarkets that I can walk to which all stock fresh foods for reasonable prices, sounds like you’re in a similar situation.
In America they have loads of these “food deserts” (old article now, but it’s gotten worse) where the only place you can buy food without having to drive an hour, is a Dollar General store that only sells shelf stable, processed rubbish. There’s no amount of money you can spend in those towns to get anything fresh, not that the residents typically have much to spend anyway.
Those residents also can’t often afford to live anywhere else, or they’d have already moved; so they’re kinda of stuck in a situation that’ll make their lives worse with very little they can do to remediate it themselves.
Pretty sure you can buy rice and beans at dollar general? I have to go off search engine previews though, because the website doesn’t work for me (and I don’t live near any)
Edit: missed they said veggies, I guess that’s where the issue is. But canned veggies are better than a lot of other foods you could be buying, even if they are “processed”.
Even when they advertise stuff they are out all the time. The family dollar in my nearest food desert will be out of rice more times than not and the beans are more expensive than the grocery store in the next town they can’t afford to get to. It’s abysmal.