The high price of healthy food … and the low price of unhealthy food

24 Juli 2019

Research Post

July 24, 2019

The high price of healthy food … and the low price of unhealthy food


Derek Headey


Harold Alderman

Egg calories in Niger are 23.3 times as expensive as a calorie from rice or corn. In the U.S., egg calories are just 1.6 times as expensive as staple food calories.