I’ll start off with an example since I don’t think i explained myself very well in the title: let’s say you went to get a chicken at the supermarket, and you saw one that costs 20$ and one that costs 10$, does the price difference make any difference on how healthy it is? I don’t really care about the taste, but I was wondering wether or not buying a far more expensive product of the same type if worth it
It’s not that simple. You need to look into the vendors to figure out why there’s a price disparity on products that otherwise seem identical. It could be one is farmed more efficiently at the cost of the chickens quality of life and vice versa.
A fruit could be farmed using slave labor, one could be farmed by workers who are paid a living wage. The slave labor fruit will be much cheaper in comparison.
My intuition tells me that the healthiness of most normal products will not affect the price very much unless that is their niche, ie a fruit that is easily farmed and abundant but prevents cancer. The production is not going to be reflected on the price tag, but the cancer prevention will.
It depends on a lot, the weight of the meat included, the cut of meat, if the store needs to sell it soon, name brand or store brand, whether that meat is sold under special categories like organic or free range that some people may care about for environmental or ethical reasons but may or may not matter nutritionally, whether it’s been pre-seasoned or flavored, and a bunch of other factors.
So probably not, a lot of it just depends on how expensive to produce and in demand that meat is.