I still see this idea brought up but it feels like the tide has turned against the idea of "food deserts" with a lot of studies undermining it, and worth looking into if you're interested.
The raw data still appears to suport the notion:
https://www.ers.usda.gov/data-products/food-environment-atla...
and the various initiatives started to address the issue haven't yet had time to make significant changes in enough of the areas worst off:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Food_desert
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/apr/29/us-food-...
It's a good start, with a way to go:
> On Sept. 28, the White House is hosted a conference on hunger, nutrition and health — the second conference of its kind in five decades — and introduced a 40-page national strategy as a roadmap toward the goal of ending hunger and increasing healthy eating by 2030.
https://journalistsresource.org/home/food-insecurity-health/
But there absolutely is such a thing as a "food desert"
particularly within the USofA, places where lack of finnacial resources across communities, lack of affordable public transport, and lack of shopping options essentially doom large groups of people to low grade high sugar foods.Good governments that are orientated toward the well being of their citizens population tend to enact limits on sugar in food, improve transport, subsidize good food etc.
Often with the evil socialist goal of better health, improved job options via transport, reduced universal health costs, and more taxpayers ..