Washington (AP), Robert F. Kennedy Jr., on Monday, praised a company that makes $ 7 on pop dishes that are delivered directly to Medicaid and Medicare Enrollees homes.
He even thanked Mom’s nutrition for sending taxpayers funded by “no additives” to the homes of sick or elderly Americans. Alloys include pasta of chicken bacon for dinner and French toast sticks with fruit or ham jars.
“This is really one of the decisions to make our country healthy again,” Kennedy said in the video, published in his official health secretary account after touring the company’s Oklahoma facility last week.
But the Review of the Associated Press of the Mom’s Nutrition Menu, including the ingredients and labels of the nutrition, shows that the company’s proposals are the type of heat and eating, ultra -production foods that Kennedy routinely criticizes that people make people sick.
The food contains chemical supplements that would make them impossible to recreate at home in your kitchen, said Marion Nestle, a nutritionist at New York University and a Food Policy Expert who reviewed the menu for the AP. Many menu elements are high in sodium and some are high in sugar or saturated fat, she said.
“It is quite possible to make similar dishes with real foods and without ultra -processing supplements, but each of the meals I watched is loaded with such supplements,” Nestle said. “What is so sad is that they should not be that way. Other companies are able to produce much better products, but of course they cost more.”
Mom’s food has no artificial, oil dyes that Kennedy has pressed companies to remove from the products, she noted.
Mom’s Meals products “do not include ingredients that are usually found in ultra -processed foods,” such as synthetic food dyes, high fructose corn syrup, certain sweeteners or synthetic preservatives that are banned in Europe, Europe said. She did not turn to the use of supplements from the company in foods that make them ultra -procedural.
Food is a “healthy alternative” of what many people would find in their grocery stores, said Andrew Nixon, a spokesman for health and human services in the United States, in response to questions about mom nutrition.
Mom’s Meals is one of several companies in the United States that deliver “medically adapted” dishes at home. Nutrition programs are covered by Medicaid for some participants, including people with cancer or diabetes, as well as for some older Americans who are recorded in certain Medicare health insurance plans.
Recently, patients discharged from the hospital may also be delivered by meals according to the company’s website.
It is unclear how many federal taxpayers spend on providing nutrition through Medicaid and Medicare each year. An investigation into Stat News last year found that some states were spending millions of dollars to provide medically adapted meals to Medicaid participants available on the market as healthy and “nutrition -approved”. But many companies have served dishes loaded with salt, fat or sugar – all brackets on the diet of an unhealthy American, is the report.
Determining ultra -procedural foods can be complicated. Most American foods are processed, whether it is freezing, grinding, fermentation, pasteurization or other means. Foods created through industrial processes and with ingredients such as supplements, colors and preservatives that you would not be able to duplicate in home kitchen are considered to be the most processed.
Kennedy said the healthy diets in the US are key to his vision of “making America healthy again.” His appeal to Americans to increase whole foods in his diets has helped Kennedy build his unique coalition of Trump loyalists and suburban mothers who have been marked as Maha.
In a recent social media publication, where he criticized the huge amount of ultra -processed foods in US diets, Kennedy urged Americans to make a healthier choice.
“This country has lost the most basic of all freedoms – the freedom that comes from being healthy,” Kennedy said.
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Alekia reports from Temecula, California.