Inside RFK Jr’s conflicted attempt to rid America of junk food

Maha' promised to tackle ultra-processed foods - but is it hijacking the food movement instead?

Over the space of the last year, Robert F Kennedy Jr. has made the term ultra-processed foods" something of a household phrase.

Once a term only used by nutritionists and food policy researchers to describe the most processed foods in the supply chain (think: chips and sodas, packaged bread, microwave dinners and even some yogurts), ultra-processing has become a calling card of the Make America Healthy Again" (Maha") movement.