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A food desert is an area that has limited access to affordable, fresh, healthy, and nutritious food. Food deserts are commonly paired with food swamps, which lack grocery stores and instead have convenience stores or fast food.
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| Subject | Predicate | Object | Confidence | Src |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Food desert | is a | area that has limited access to affordable | 0.90 | text |
| obesity | instance of | Food deserts are commonly associated with food insecurity and are linked to worsening health outcome including an increased risk of developing chronic diseases | 0.80 | text |
| diabetes | instance of | Food deserts are commonly associated with food insecurity and are linked to worsening health outcome including an increased risk of developing chronic diseases | 0.80 | text |
| and cardiovascular disease.In 2025 | instance of | Food deserts are commonly associated with food insecurity and are linked to worsening health outcome including an increased risk of developing chronic diseases | 0.80 | text |
| the United States Department of Agriculture reported that an estimated 12.8 | instance of | Food deserts are commonly associated with food insecurity and are linked to worsening health outcome including an increased risk of developing chronic diseases | 0.80 | text |
| Karen Washington have begun to use the term | instance of | activists | 0.80 | text |
| limited access to resources | instance of | Reflecting the long-term impact of redlining on neighborhoods of color reflecting how racial segregation continues to persist leading by shaping conditions | 0.80 | text |
| food environments that are associated with worsening health outcomes due to food insecurity.Supermarket redlining has been proposed as a cause of lower access to supermarkets that is characteristic of some scholarly definitions of food deserts | instance of | Reflecting the long-term impact of redlining on neighborhoods of color reflecting how racial segregation continues to persist leading by shaping conditions | 0.80 | text |
| supply | instance of | Economic factors | 0.80 | text |
| demand that businesses take into consideration are affected by a complex web of interconnected factors | instance of | Economic factors | 0.80 | text |
| the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program | instance of | 1 billion in private investment.There are resources | 0.80 | text |
| market demand | instance of | while omitting more significant factors | 0.80 | text |
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