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FDA's Diamantas: Defining ultra-processed foods is ‘really hard’

Thursday, April 23, 2026   (0 Comments)
Posted by: Allyson Baros-Kabler

Food and Drug Administration Deputy Commissioner for Food Kyle Diamantas said Tuesday that it will be difficult for the Trump administration to fulfill its promise to deliver a highly anticipated definition of ultra-processed foods by this month.

“A definition for ultra-processed foods is really hard,” Diamantas, who leads FDA’s Human Foods Program, said at the POLITICO Health Care Summit. “There’s not a great current definition for ultra-processed foods in our view.”

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