Critical Reasoning

By analyzing the garbage of a large number of average-sized households, a group of modern urban anthropologists has found that a household discards less food the more standardized- made up of canned and prepackaged foods-its diet is. The more standardized a household's diet is, however, the greater the quantities of fresh produce the household throws away.

Which of the following can be properly inferred from the passage?

(A) An increasing number of households rely on a highly standardized diet.

(B) The less standardized a household's diet is, the more nonfood waste the household discards.

(C) The less standardized a household's diet is, the smaller is the proportion of fresh produce in the household's food waste.

(D) The less standardized a household's diet is, the more canned and prepackaged foods the household discards as waste.

(E) The more fresh produce a household buys, the more fresh produce it throws away.

OA C

Source: Official Guide[/spoiler]