I hope this article isn’t too political. A portion of it reads:
But critics of the state plans have warned that in a country where food prices are rising, cutting out swathes of products could have a serious impact on affordability for America’s poorest. Overall, U.S. food prices rose by 23.6 percent from 2020 to 2024, according to the USDA. An August 2024 study by PlushCare found that unhealthy foods are cheaper to buy than healthy foods in all 50 U.S. states, with differences ranging from around 2.9 percent to 3.7 percent.
A 2023 study by Cleveland Clinic found that 46 percent of Americans view healthy foods as being more expensive.
My wife and I shop what is called “around the rim” of the grocery store. Vegetables, fruits, grocery, occasional seafood, supplies for baking. We’re not big red meat eaters, we buy that opportunistically (sales), more poultry than red meat, and there are days when we don’t have any meat. Those are the healthy items in our view. I don’t see them getting more expensive more quickly that processed and ultraprocessed foods.
Maybe if “PlushCare” people are counting the foods labeled as organic (which is a scam, in my view) they would get that result. Organic labeling caters to high-end shoppers with money to burn on a scam. Who the heck are PlushCare and why should we care about their opinion?