RFK Jr. Endorses a Packaged Meal Loaded with Additives
By: dianeravitch (Diane Ravitchs blog)
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By dianeravitch July 9, 2025 // 0
Amanda Seitz and Jonel Alecia of the Associated press reported that Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Secretary of Health and Human Services, endorsed a product that violates the standards of his "Make America Healthy Again" campaign.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on Monday praised a company that makes $7-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 said in the video, posted to his official health 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, 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.
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When I got home from the hospital 3 1/2 years ago after having a heart attack I got a call fom the insurance company saying that Medicare would pay for me to get Moms Meals for a period of time (I think it was three months.) More out of curioisity than anything else I said ok. About a week later I got a case of the meals.
I'll put it like this - Moms Meals are worse than "hospital food", and it is obvious they are filled with processed ingredients. They are on a level with those cheap tv dinners you can buy at a dollar store. I ended up throwing a lot of it away.
On top of the quality I told the woman on the phone I needed low sodium. When I got them there was a form saying they were low sodium but when you read the labels you see it is anything but.
He's probably getting kickbacks for endorseing these meals.
But who are these meals going to be delivered to? There won't be anyone on Medicaid or Medicare
My thoughts exactly.
Must be really bad. I've spent my share of time in the hospital and damn near starved to death
I have been an inpatient five times in the last three and a half years, although thankfully none of them have come in the past year. Four out the five the food sucked. But the other time, when I got my heart valve replacements, it was at a different hospital and the food there was actually good, and they gave you a menu to choose from that was just like a restaurant menu.
That's nice. When I got my ankle repaired I think I had a choice for breakfast, I don;t remember eating dinner that night. Still wasn't up to Mr Giggles' standards.
I did get steak and lobster when I had my kids. Mr G could have done better at home
Reminds me of a hospital I stayed at in Fl after I broke my hip. The food was all still awful, but at least I had a choice of what awful I ate
Best meal was the one my Dad smuggled in one night
He'll be putting lead back into paint next.