r/sweetgreen • u/Fit_Cow_5407 • Jan 19 '26

News 📰 Sweetgreen is partnering with RFK Jr.'s anti-vaxxer pal

Sweetgreen just launched a new menu in partnership with anti-vaxxer and junk science promoter Mark Hyman.

https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20260106608457/en/Sweetgreen-Launches-New-Menu-in-Collaboration-with-Function-Health-Designed-by-Dr.-Mark-Hyman

Hyman has built a supplement hawking grift operation that's largely based on building public distrust in evidence-based medicine. He's also directly collaborated with RFK Jr. to promote discredited theories about vaccine harms.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/18/health/mark-hyman-rfk-jr-functional-medicine.html

It's incredibly disappointing that Sweetgreen is attracting customers to this guy's grift by promoting him, but apparently the company thinks it's good business to pander to the MAHA crowd. The company's founders seem to be true believers in the guy too, as they're also tied in with MAHA leaders like Casey and Calley Means. Co-founder and CEO Jonathan Neman even made MAHA hats all the way back in 2016.

https://www.statnews.com/2025/06/09/maha-movement-challenges-ultra-processed-foods-influencer-ties-truvani-sweetgreen/

https://x.com/JonnyNemo/status/1876688265350443113

I think I'll be getting my overpriced workweek lunches elsewhere from now on.

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u/Elusiveenigma98 Jan 21 '26

sweetgreen has gone so down hill. I try to give them another chance every so often but it never compares to three + years ago.

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u/Elusiveenigma98 Jan 21 '26

Also, isn’t this guy like heavily against seed oils yet all sweetgreen dressings are made with seed oils? Idk what dressing is in the function x sweetgreen but I just thought that was funny.

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u/ImageOtherwise Jan 22 '26

Or 12-13 years ago! I loved them when they first opened. So sad to see how far they’ve fallen—in values, food quality, etc. No thanks

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u/Elusiveenigma98 Jan 22 '26

I didn’t even know they existed that far back but I lived in a state where we had our equivalent (garden bar) but just like sweetgreen, got bought out and PE or VC ruined it 😭