Why is healthy food at fast food restaurants more expensive than regular food?

I see it all over the place. You got your 99 cent burgers, tacos, yada yada, and then if you want something that actually won't clog your arteries like cement, you'll need to fork over at least another two or three bucks for something that is half as filling as that 99 cent burger. Why can't fast food restaurants make available healthy options for cheap? Besides a taco bell bean burrito, of course.Why is healthy food at fast food restaurants more expensive than regular food?
Because the ingredients in the unhealthy food are so cheap they're actually cheaper than the healthy stuff.



In the past fruit %26amp; vegetables always used to be cheaper than animal products, but thanks to some modern inhumane intensive farming methods and new methods of carcass processing (for example "mechanically recovered/separated meat" etc) its very cheap to get a bit of animal on your plate these days.

What part of that animal though is another question (its not even technically meat most of the time), but when its all processed into a nice nondescript paste which is then cooked up in a shape with some flavourings %26amp; additives etc people don't seem to really care!



But yeah. I know farming, i know food factory work. I've lived/worked in both and i've done a lot of research on these matters too, and long story short my advice is: Save your pennies up for the better quality healthier food and avoid such processed foods (chicken nuggets, cheap sausage meat, burgers etc) like the plague! You'll be doing your health a big favour- its not just gross %26amp; fattening a lot of what they put in junk/fast food, there are major concerns over the long term health implications over a lot of the other things they add to food.
There are healthy and less healthy items on both the dollar and regular menus. Most of the expensive salads are worse for you than a dollar hamburger. If you want a salad or yogurt and fruit you can get those on the dollar menu at McDonalds. Fast food restaurants introduced the dollar menus to bring in more customers. They are not in the business to manipulate their menus to get people to eat healthy. They are in business to make money. If you don't like it you're welcome to open your own restaurant and sell healthy food cheap.Why is healthy food at fast food restaurants more expensive than regular food?
Well, the "cheap food" has a lot of filler. It's not 100% actual food. For example, a lot of companies put sand in their meat products. This allows them to sell it very cheaply. However, if you watch sales and visit the right local markets you can eat well on a budget.
Because the 99 cent stuff you're talking about is fodder. The quality that goes into it is worth 99 cents. The more healthy options on the other hand have at least a semblance of decent quality, hence the higher price.
Because they are there to make money. Just buy your bean burritos, and then buy something healthy elsewhere.