RFK Jr. promoted a food company he says will make Americans healthy. Their meals are ultraprocessed

07.07.2025    Pioneer Press    1 views
RFK Jr. promoted a food company he says will make Americans healthy. Their meals are ultraprocessed

By AMANDA SEITZ and JONEL ALECCIA Associated Press WASHINGTON AP Vitality secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr on Monday praised a company that makes -a-pop meals that are delivered directly to the homes of Medicaid and Medicare enrollees He even thanked Mom s Meals for sending taxpayer-funded meals without additives to the homes of sick or elderly Americans The spreads include chicken bacon ranch pasta for dinner and French toast sticks with fruit or ham patties This is really one of the solutions for making our country healthy again Kennedy revealed in the video posted to his official fitness secretary account after he toured the company s Oklahoma facility last week But an Associated Press review of Mom s Meals menu including the ingredients and nutrition labels shows that the company s offerings are the type of heat-and-eat ultraprocessed foods that Kennedy routinely criticizes for making people sick The meals contain chemical additives that would render them impossible to recreate at home in your kitchen disclosed Marion Nestle a nutritionist at New York University and food framework expert who reviewed the menu for The AP Multiple menu items are high in sodium and chosen are high in sugar or saturated fats she revealed It is perfectly practicable to make meals like this with real foods and no ultra-processing additives but every one of the meals I looked at is loaded with such additives Nestle reported What s so sad is that they don t have to be this way Other companies are able to produce much better products but of class they cost more Related Articles Temporary status to be removed from roughly Hondurans Nicaraguans after years in US What to know about a feasible deal to keep TikTok running in US Scholar loan cancellation project could become Trump retribution tool a few advocates fear Debate erupts over role job cuts played in weather forecasts ahead of deadly Texas floods Deals made by Trump since pausing his Liberation Day tariffs remain sparse Mom s Meals do not have the artificial petroleum dyes that Kennedy has pressured companies to remove from products she noted Mom s Meals declared in an emailed response that its food products do not include ingredients that are commonly unveiled in ultra-processed foods The company does not use synthetic food dyes high fructose corn syrup certain sweeteners or synthetic preservatives that are banned in Europe declared Teresa Roof a company spokeswoman The meals are a healthy alternative to what various people would find in their grocery stores reported Andrew Nixon U S Wellbeing and Human Services spokesman in response to questions about Mom s Meals Mom s Meals is one of several companies across the U S that deliver medically tailored at-home meals The meal programs are covered by Medicaid for chosen enrollees including people who are sick with cancer or diabetes as well as particular older Americans who are enrolled in certain Medicare robustness insurance plans Patients in the past few days discharged from the hospital can also have the meals delivered according to the company s website It s unclear how much federal taxpayers spend on providing meals through Medicaid and Medicare every year An study by STAT news last year detected that several states were spending millions of dollars to provide medically tailored meals to Medicaid enrollees that were marketed as healthy and dietician approved But various companies served up meals loaded with salt fat or sugar all staples of an unhealthy American s diet the analysis concluded Defining ultraprocessed foods can be tricky The greater part U S foods are processed whether it s by freezing grinding fermentation pasteurization or other means Foods created through industrial processes and with ingredients such as additives colors and preservatives that you couldn t duplicate in a home kitchen are considered the largest part processed Kennedy has revealed healthier U S diets are key to his vision to Make America Healthy Again His call for Americans to increase whole foods in their diets has helped Kennedy build his unique coalition of Trump loyalists and suburban moms who have branded themselves as MAHA In a fresh social media post where he criticized the vast amount of ultraprocessed foods in American diets Kennedy urged Americans to make healthier choices This country has lost the majority basic of all freedoms the freedom that comes from being healthy Kennedy announced Aleccia shared from Temecula Calif

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