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What Drives Consumers to Purchase Convenience Foods?

July 24, 2018 Ilya Rahkovsky, Young Jo, and Andrea Carlson, Food Economics Division, Economic Research Service

Many Americans lead busy lives and don’t have a lot of time to prepare food for their families. Faced with greater time constraints from work, childcare, and commuting, they often turn to convenience foods. Convenience foods are defined as types of foods that save time in food acquisition...

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