Mehmet Oz on minimally processed, real-food eating: recommends

Dr. Mehmet Oz recommends minimally processed, “real food” eating, backing the 2026 Dietary Guidelines’ targeting of ultra-processed foods. In his February 2026 Fox News Digital interview, Oz supported the administration’s push to cut highly processed and refined carbohydrates out of the American diet.

Oz’s stated reasoning is that heavily processed foods drive obesity and poor health outcomes. He has backed guidelines that would “significantly reduce” highly processed, refined carbohydrates such as white bread, tortillas, and crackers, framing real, recognizable food as the core of the guidelines’ “Food is Medicine” approach.

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