More and more families are choosing fast food over home cooked meal. What are the reasons and how they can be addressed?

Over the

last

decade, there has been a remarkable

increase

in the demand for junk foods

instead

of home-cooked

food

. The main cause behind

this

is they are easy to cook.

However

, a possible way to resolve

this

issue would be to raise taxes on

such

products. One of the imperative reasons which often attract consumers to buy processed

food

is that these foods are less time-consuming. It is undeniably true that nowadays, spouse wo

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is working

rom dawn to dusk in order to have a good standard of living so they do not have much time to buy vegetable from the market and cook at home.

As a result

, processed

food

seems to be easy for them to cook as it does not take time, unlike a home-cooked meal.

For instance

, a recent study by the Times of India in

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on

pril 2019 reported that more than 70% of working people prefer Ashoka products since it can be prepared less than 10 minutes and follows 2-3 steps for cooking, resulted in obesity in them. The possible solution to overcome

this

difficulty would be an

increase

in taxes on

such

products. If the government imposes high taxes on manufacturing companies of

such

fast

food

products, irrefutably companies will cover these taxes from consumers’ by increasing the price of it.

As a result

, many middle or low-class people would think twice before buying it and they might switch to a home-cooked meal.

For instance

, Japan Government has increased taxes on junk

food

manufacturers’ in order to attract its citizen to prepare a home-cooked meal, which resulted in a healthier life and an

increase

in life expectancy. In conclusion, owing to hectic schedule people frequently choose junk

food

over home-cooked

food

. Only when the government

increase

taxes on the manufacturing companies, will

this

problem be solved.