Why and how processed food is cheaper than healthy and unprocessed food?

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Why and how processed food is cheaper than healthy and unprocessed food?

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Answer 1

“Processed food” is a very big category, but many processed foods are combinations of grains, sugars, and vegetable oils.

And those ingredients are cheap with a capital “C”. That makes them very profitable for those companies, even after they spend a lot of money on marketing.