Every week Americans head to the grocery store knowing what should fill their carts–fruits, vegetables and unprocessed foods packed with whole grains.
Yet many end up walking out with bags full of sugary cookies, a couple of frozen meat lovers’ pizzas and liters of soda.
This happens most in the Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington metro area, where shoppers spend 11.47% of their yearly grocery bill on unhealthy items (the national average is 8.5%). In second-place Richmond, Va., that number drops slightly, to 11.45%, and in Indianapolis and Carmel, Ind., No. 3 on our list, unhealthy items eat up 11.33% of a typical grocery shopper’s bill.
Chicago-Naperville-Joliet and the Charlotte-Gastonia-Concord region in North and South Carolina round out the top five.
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