What is a food desert, why are they important, and who do they affect? A food desert is identified as an area of the country where there are a major lack of fresh fruit, vegetables, and other nutritious whole foods. These areas are frequently found in disadvantaged areas, mostly in urban areas and are the product of the distance of health food from specific areas, the price of health foods, and the amount of health food available. Urban areas are heavy on residential marts that make an affluence of processed, sugary, fat overloaded and all other kinds of unhealthy foods that are known funders to our country’s obesity prevalence accessible. Food deserts are connected to poor food access as ethnically and socioeconomically unequal guidelines
