Ultra-processed foods now make up over half of the average adult’s calories and nearly 60% of children’s diets.

They look harmless. They’re marketed as “natural.” Some even carry health halos.

But behind the packaging lies a system built on loopholes, engineered starches, and thousands of additives the FDA may never have formally reviewed.

In Episode 90 of the Orange Pill Podcast, we unpack the growing bipartisan alarm around ultra processed foods – from the controversial GRAS loophole to the striking alliance between Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and former FDA Commissioner Dr. David Kessler under the “Make America Healthy Again” banner.

This isn’t about fear.
It’s about understanding how policy, processing, and profit reshaped the modern pantry.

Because the real question isn’t just what are we eating?
It’s who decided it was safe in the first place?