Food Desert

7. geographical area with an overabundance of exposure to affordable but less healthy food, including fast food, convenience stores, and liquor stores, even if adequate access to healthy food retail exists
8. a piece of land gardened or cultivated by a group of people individually or collectively
9. a group of food chains constituting all or a significant part of the food relations that enable survival of the population of a community
10. a large self-service store selling foods and household goods
11. being far from a supermarket, supercenter, or large grocery store
13. a very large discount department store that also sells a complete line of grocery merchandise
14. a retail store that primarily sells a general line of food, such as fruits, vegetables, meat, poultry, canned and frozen foods
15. where grocery gaps can be found
16. an area in which many residents cannot easily get to stores that sell affordable, healthful foods

1. significantly fewer full-service grocery stores in the lowest-income wards
2. a store with extended opening hours and in a convenient location, stocking a limited range of household goods and groceries
3. stable availability of nourishing, affordable, and suitable foods
4. exists when all people, at all times, have physical, social and economic access to sufficient, safe and nutritious food
5. sufficient quantities of food of appropriate quality, supplied through domestic production or imports
6. having access to adequate food at all times
12. a food market at which local farmers sell fruit and vegetables and often meat, cheese, and bakery products directly to consumers