Overview

• On July 7, RFK Jr. toured Mom’s Meals’ Oklahoma facility and posted a video praising its taxpayer-funded medically tailored deliveries
• An Associated Press review found that many menu items are ultraprocessed heat-and-eat foods loaded with chemical additives, high sodium, sugar or saturated fat
• NYU nutritionist Marion Nestle said it is possible to prepare these meals without industrial additives but every one she examined contained them
• Mom’s Meals and a U.S. Health and Human Services spokesman stated their products exclude synthetic dyes, high-fructose corn syrup and other additives and offer a healthy alternative
• The dispute over public funding for ultraprocessed meals has intensified debate over RFK Jr.’s Make America Healthy Again agenda and the role of Medicaid and Medicare nutrition programs