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will, I'm not ignoring the nutrional value. I've been stating that nutrional dense food is more expensive to produce than empty non-nutritional foodstuffs.
It's a food manufacturing fact.
Why are apple "fries" more expensive than taking apples and cutting them yourselves? Why is bagged lettuce more expensive than a head of lettuce? Junk food and most processed food has at least a 6 month shelf life.
Because the work put into it has a cost. The shelf life of the food has a short span. It must be sold with X days or contain some sort of shelf stabilizer in order to preserve the food which also has a cost.
This is why it really doesn't matter to a restaurant if they give you 1/4 lb burger or 1/3 lb burger. The raw materials aren't as expensive as the amount of work that gets put into it.
I'm also going to state that the thing everyone has ignored here, is that the individual going to the market to buy these healthier foodstuffs has to have a knowledge and skill to make/create/prepare their own meals. There are many who do not have the skill to even boil water.
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