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I see.Let's read in context, shall we?
#1 Who is the target audience? Chpt. 7:1 tells us Pharisees, scribes and priests. Not the usual rabble but learned men.
#2. What's their beef? verse 2 tells us disciples were eating with "unwashed" hands. The ritual washings which the priests demanded were a man made rule. Verses 7,8 and 9 go farther into this.
#3 The problem was not what kind of food they were eating but the manner in which it was eaten
IF Jesus had declared unclean foods to be okay, He would have been stoned immediately. That didn't happen. This was a skirmish over hand washing in a particular way and nothing more.

IF Jesus had declared the distinction of clean and unclean foods were over, Peter would not have reacted the way he did in Acts 10:9 - 18, Acts 11:5 - 18 where Peter had to overcome his phobia of Gentiles as an unclean race to dismiss as unclean. Peter well understood not to eat unclean foods as did all Jews.

Lastly remember the reason we all die? Lust for an apple in the Garden of Eden. We have to control our appetites for only clean things. God has rules.

"Mark 7:18. "And he said to them, 'Then are you also without understanding? Do you not see that whatever goes into a person from outside cannot defile him,'"

Do you think Jesus was saying there that what you eat can not possibly be unhealthy for you? (I don't think so. I would refer you to BipolarBob's post #89.)

Here's some other quick examples that would make Jesus a liar, if that was truly what He meant.

Does God (of both the Old Testament and the New Testament) think that if a drunkard drinks a half-gallon of cheap whiskey from outside, that will not be unhealthy for him?

Does God think that if a person ingests a spoonful of arsenic from outside, that will not be "unhealthy" for him?

Does God think that if a person ingests a spoonful of tetrodotoxin from outside, that will not be "unhealthy" for him?

Does God think that if a person ingests a spoonful of cyanide from outside, that will not be "unhealthy" for him?

Does God think that if a person ingests a spoonful of strychnine from outside, that will not be "unhealthy" for him?

Does God think that if a person ingests a spoonful of ricin from outside, that will not be "unhealthy" for him?

Of course not! God is not stupid! Every single one of those things going "into a person from outside" is VERY unhealthy for them, and God knows that perfectly well.

Jesus obviously wasn't saying that, because that would be completely untrue.