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Article: Health Food Industry
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- Dictionary of American History
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HEALTH FOOD INDUSTRY
HEALTH FOOD INDUSTRY.
The health food industry, a $4-billion-dollar-a-year business in the early 1990s, was founded on the fact that American consumers increasingly regarded health as a primary concern when buying food. The average food bill per individual at that time was more than four thousand dollars per year, of which almost half was spent on food away from home. As people became more concerned about healthful food in the 1980s and 1990s, consumption of organic foods increased. Because they are cultivated without synthetic additives, fertilizers, or pesticides
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some of which are proven carcinogens that often leach into public water supplies
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