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Unless all food is always exactly equally bad and nutritional science completely worthless there must be some food or combination of foods that is less bad in a given situation than the alternatives. You might as well call that food "good" since, unless identical, compared to a baseline of whatever foods would be considered the default it should have a positive effect of some kind.
I agree that good food by that definition is likely to exist, but since I don't see a specific reason for it a priori, I don't see any reason that the difference in health should be particularly large. One thing that I would like to see is some scientific evidence rather than anecdotal that there is any significant correlation between certain diets and health outcomes. I believe they exist but I don't currently have strong evidence for that belief, other than "people talk about it like it's true."