Cooking without thinking: How understanding cooking as a practice can shed new light on inequalities in healthy eating

In the UK the way we eat has become the biggest cause of preventable illness and death, placing a huge burden on our health system. Studies have found this is particularly true for those in more deprived areas. In the context of cheap ultra-processed foods, public health interventions to reduce this healthy eating gap often promote cooking ‘from scratch’ as a means of making increased fruit and vegetable consumption affordable on a tight budget....