Owner of Twinkies issues 7-word warning to RFK Jr who wants to ban ultra-processed food

Twinkies bosses person issued a stark informing to Robert F Kennedy Jr astir his strict views connected ultra-processed foods.

Earlier this month, RFK Jr was handpicked by President-Elect Donald Trump to service arsenic secretary of Health and Human Services.

The information has sparked interest from wellness officials for the erstwhile statesmanlike candidate's projected policies, specified arsenic stripping fluoride from drinking h2o and claiming vaccines origin autism. 

Among the sweeping measures, Kennedy's 'Make America Healthy Again' agenda has proposed limiting entree to soda and processed foods done schoolhouse lunches owed to alleged 'chemical poisons' successful them.

He has besides advocated for banning artificial nutrient colorings and pesticides and is an outspoken professional of weight loss drugs similar Ozempic, insisting Americans absorption connected dietary changes to dainty diabetes and obesity. 

Mark Smucker, CEO of Twinkies and Uncrustables shaper JM Smucker, said this week successful a telephone with fiscal analysts: 'We judge precise powerfully that snacking continues.

'Consumers are going to proceed to look for a mode to reward themselves astatine antithetic times passim the day.'

While Mr Smucker is assured Americans volition proceed buying ultra-processed products similar Twinkies, helium noted that the institution whitethorn set immoderate of its merchandise ingredients to accommodate consumers connected value nonaccomplishment medications similar Ozempic. 

He said: 'We proceed to bash an ongoing probe connected the interaction of GLP-1 trends and what that mightiness mean for our business. 

'We could look astatine reducing sugar. There’s a full assortment of innovations that we volition bring to bear.'

Kennedy inactive has to beryllium confirmed by the Senate earlier helium tin beryllium appointed HHS secretary. It's besides unclear what his circumstantial policies volition entail if helium is confirmed.

He has, however, expressed involvement successful limiting additives similar Yellow 5, Red 40, and precocious fructose maize syrup, each of which are listed connected the Twinkies constituent label. 

Red 40 and Yellows 5 and 6 are dyes utilized to springiness processed foods similar Twinkies their agleam colors.

They person been theorized to exacerbate attentional problems successful children, starring EU regulators to mandate that merchandise makers accidental dyes could origin ‘an adverse effect connected enactment and attraction successful children.’ 

A 2021 report from California's Environmental Protection Agency besides linked artificial dyes to hyperactivity and different neurobehavioral problems' successful immoderate children, peculiarly those with ADHD oregon different existing behavioral disorders. 

Red 40 arsenic good arsenic Yellow 5, and Yellow 6 besides incorporate benzidene, a quality and carnal carcinogen permitted successful debased levels. 

According to the FDA, ingestion of escaped benzidine raises the crab hazard to conscionable nether the ‘concern’ threshold, oregon 1 crab successful 1 cardinal people.

Some states person taken steps to prohibition these additives, specified arsenic California signing the California School Food Safety Act earlier this year. The measurement outlaws Red 40, Yellow 5, Yellow 6, Blue 1, Blue 2, and Green 3 successful meals, drinks, and snacks served successful astir K-12 schoolhouse cafeterias crossed the state.