Food mirage

Food mirages are low-income communities with access to supermarkets but with financial barriers to accessing healthy foods found in supermarkets. In a study done by researchers at Portland State University, a food mirage was examined in a neighborhood where residents living in poverty were surrounded by new grocery stores. Researchers found that out of the 81% of impoverished residents surveyed, 61% percent lived in moderate or extreme food mirage, resulting in traveling more than 1.8 miles past their neighborhood grocery store in search of better prices.