Healthy eating: a privilege for the better-off?
Ricardo Mendes AlvesCarla LopesJulian PerelmanPublished in: European journal of clinical nutrition (2021)
The consumption of healthy food is mostly consistently related to income, contrary to the intake of unhealthy ones. It may well be, therefore, that subsidies to healthy foods could allow access to the worse-off while taxing unhealthy food will not impose a disproportionate burden on them.