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People living in more affluent neighborhoods have access to both higher quantity and higher quality food. Healthy food options are disproportionately more difficult to find in poor neighborhoods. It has become a part of the cultural norm that lower income neighborhoods are less privy to nutritious food. Food Stamp assistance programs sometimes counteract their intended use of helping low-income families have access to nutritional foods. Current food stamp programs offer only menial funds to purchase food, about $2.20 per meal.

Food deserts in rural areas and food deserts in urban areas have different causes. An absence of nutritious food options in rural areas can be linked to an issue of supply and demand. High availability of food is correlated with healthier nutritional choices while low availability of food is correlated with obesity as a result of poor food choice.