Answer:
The sentence - Places like Taco Bell provide affordable and convenient food for Americans, but consumers need to be aware of the health consequences of eating too much fast food is a compound sentence.
Step-by-step explanation:
A compound sentence joins two or more independent sentences with a conjunction. In other words, two or independent clauses are connected with a coordinating conjunction like for, and, but, not, or, yet, so. In this sentence, "Places like Taco Bell...for Americans" and "consumers...the health consequences of eating too much fast food" are two separate sentences or clauses having independent meanings. They are joined or connected by the coordinating conjunction but to form one single sentence that is a compound sentence.