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RFK Jr. Endorses a Food Company Claiming to Boost American Health, But Their Meals Are Highly Processed

    RFK Jr. promoted a food company he says will make Americans healthy. Their meals are ultraprocessed
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    WASHINGTON – On Monday, Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. expressed admiration for a business supplying $7 meals delivered directly to the homes of Medicaid and Medicare recipients.

    He thanked Mom’s Meals for providing taxpayer-funded meals “without additives” to sick or elderly individuals, which include options like chicken bacon ranch pasta for dinner and French toast sticks with fruit or ham patties.

    “This is truly one of the ways to make our nation healthy again,” Kennedy commented in a video posted on his official health secretary account after his visit to 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, said Marion Nestle, a nutritionist at New York University and food policy expert, who reviewed the menu for The AP. Many menu items are high in sodium, and some are high in sugar or saturated fats, she said.

    “It is perfectly possible 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 said. “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 course they cost more.”

    Mom’s Meals do not have the artificial, petroleum dyes that Kennedy has pressured companies to remove from products, she noted.

    Mom’s Meals’ products “do not include ingredients that are commonly found in ultra-processed foods” such as synthetic food dyes, high fructose corn syrup, certain sweeteners or synthetic preservatives that are banned in Europe, Teresa Roof, a company spokeswoman, said in an email. She did not address the company’s use of additives in the foods that make them ultraprocessed.

    The meals are a “healthy alternative” to what many people would find in their grocery stores, said Andrew Nixon, U.S. Health 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 some enrollees, including people who are sick with cancer or diabetes, as well as some older Americans who are enrolled in certain Medicare health insurance plans.

    Patients recently 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 investigation by STAT news last year found that some states were spending millions of dollars to provide medically tailored meals to Medicaid enrollees that were marketed as healthy and “dietician approved.” But many companies served up meals loaded with salt, fat or sugar — all staples of an unhealthy American’s diet, the report concluded.

    Defining ultraprocessed foods can be tricky. Most 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 most processed.

    Kennedy has said 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 recent 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 most basic of all freedoms — the freedom that comes from being healthy,” Kennedy said.

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    Aleccia reported from Temecula, Calif.

    Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed without permission.

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