After several reactions to varying food and consumer goods regulations, between the EU, UK, Canada, and the US, one rule now must be obvious. In other countries, the order of priority has consumer health and safety on the top. In the US, it's corporate profits and lobby group interests which come first.

It appears to me that the FDA is supporting the American health industry by providing more customers.

Tyler……American milk for one is banned in over 160 countries and Canada as well.

When Subway opened in the UK and tried to use their American bread, they were not allowed - it was banned. The reason? American bread contains so much sugar it would have had to be sold as cake in this country.

The food in the US is genuinely one of the biggest factors that deters me from visiting.

Anyone else over here think we should just import Tyler to the U.K.? It would save him the bother of importing his food and he could do his reaction videos as he reacts to life over here himself 😊 He looked genuinely shocked about the food in the USA.

Check out the difference between French fries ingredients purchased at McDonalds in the UK and McDonalds in the US. You might think it would be like for like. The UK version contains just three: potato, vegetable oil, and salt. The US fries contain a whole host of ingredients (19 in total) some of which are banned in the UK and EU.

American cereal can't even be sold as cereal in the UK, it is classified as Sweet's/Candy.

The FDA is far too cosy with the food and drinks industry…

From everything I hear about the cost of living in the USA along with the health costs, the education costs, food standards and the sheer amount of violent crime that is famous around it seems that the best thing any American can do to protect themselves and their family is to move abroad.

The flour thing we noticed when that danish guy started his danish bakery chain in New York 10+ years ago.. He said he had to import everything needed to bake bread and pastry with, as he found the US stuff inferior or even bad and unusable to consume. He couldn't let people eat that he said.. So its all sent from Denmark even the butter.

I'm from Scotland (in the UK) and I remember I loved Sunny D as a kid. Then there was an incident where a girl turned orange due to the colour additives. It disappeared from shelves in the UK but I was surprised while travelling recently in Guam - a US overseas territory - to see it proudly displayed on every supermarket shelf. I didn't buy any - even for nostalgic reasons - not worth turning into an Oompa Loompa. 😂😂

Unfortunately the dollar is King. What a terrible situation to be in. Greed matters more than the American people. I bet the bosses of the companies which make these products don't eat them.

Not just a health reason but people care about animals having a good quality of life before they enter the food chain. I want my chicken and eggs to have had access to outside and free range. Same with pigs farm grown meat not in a tiny cage they can’t stand in with legs so weak due to drugs.

People in the UK who know about this don't feel good, from my experience, the ones who know about it tend to be annoyed that Americans are being poisoned.

What's in our flour? Flour, that's it! Flour was discovered in a pyramid, it was 5000 years old. They made bread with it and it tasted good with no after effects. Doesn't that tell you what should be added to flour?

I am REALLY glad we don't have fire retardant and yoga mat in our food.

This is why americans dont like our food and say its bland because we ban many food colouring, additives and preservatives. Also many everyday food in America, like bread have triple the amount of sugar in it

Actually this goes with Norway too. Not only UK there’s loads of things that banned

They do add things to UK flour though, Calcium, Iron, Niacin & Thiamin. That's it and they are added purely to address possible deficiencies of needed minerals 'if you're gonna eat cake we're darned well gonna make it better for you, so take that'.

I'll put it into very few words here. The USA looks at profit first, then safety last. The EU and UK (and The WHO) look at safety first, then profit last.

In the U.K. we use alternative food colouring either a natural dye or not linked to causing cancer

It's well known that the US FDA's primary function is to make life easy for food manufacturers. Real food safety standards are an inconvenience which the FDA help the producers overcome - e.g. there is now no legal obligation for manufacturers to use just natural ingredients in a product labelled "Made with Natural Ingredients". Every which way you look, from labor laws and public healthcare, to food standards, the USA is only about business, at the expense of its' own people. The money-machine that is the USA has 360 million cogs whirring around, running on the cheapest, most convenient fuel possible - and it kinda makes sense, from the top looking down.

The food colouring behavioural issues are real and a problem. It runs in my family and we all went a bit crazy when we ingested the wrong E numbers. This was a huge thing in the 1990s in the UK, all over the news, so they created some strong rules around it

I guess when the treatment of sick people falls on the public purse instead of private insurance the Government has an incentive to make sure people are as healthy as they can reasonably be, which, for the most part, is a brilliant secondary consequence of having an NHS.

UK food is tasty try before you judge

There is a video on KZfaq by Dr Livingood about UK Vs US food which I highly recommend watching. It puts the ingredients lists for the UK and US version of the same product side by side on the screen at the same time so you can make a direct comparison. It only runs through six products but by putting the two ingredients lists side by side for each product the video has a big shock factor. Especially if your from the US.

Make American food unhealthy. More people suffer from medical issues. The more medical issues there are. The more money insurers and medical companies will make. It’s quiet obvious that’s what is happening in America 😉

NOT JUST IN THE UK, THESE ARE BANNED IN THE WHOLE IF EUROPE

The meat in burgers alone are shit in US

The difference in food quality and taste is always very interesting. I live in Canada and when we travel just a few hours south, I literally become ill from the food. Even the meat is the wrong colour!

We have regular food testing to prevent contamination. You even allow mouse hair and dropping in peanut butter ,as long as its under a certain percentage. In the UK, this would never be acceptable. I feel sorry for the American people. The only way is to own a small holding and produce your own.

We have a lot of those brands over here, just without the banned ingredients and generally cheaper than the US version! Across all the ingredients, not just the BVO. One must therefore ask what is going on with the US versions

I am Canadian and I find it really strange that americans want to super size their poison because food tastes so much better than the same product in Canada. What finish do you want on your casket?

Then they have audacity to ban kinder eggs and some other things.

Having seen a number of these videos about US foods banned in the UK and the EU I and others are amazed that your Government allows such crap to be put into your foods. What the hell is your FDA doing for goodness sake? Nothing by the looks of it. 😠

Most of these things are also not allowed in Canada either

We’re not big on having yoga mats in our food in the UK. You make your food cheaply we make our food safely

The FDA also has regulations that specify the amount of fly larvae, animal hair, rodent droppings, dead insects, etc, that are allowed in specific food types. We don't have regulations for this in the uk and Europe because the amount permitted is zero.

I've had to share this on my Facebook and encourage for people to also share it. America needs to know about it my friend

In France and EU, a lot of foods from USA are prohibited to much sugar, saturated oil, OGM, hormones, but also chemicals, etc.

It's mountain dew manufactured by pepsi that has BVO in the US version. The US version also has E5 artificial colourant whereas the UK version has no BVO and uses Beta Keratin (Natural dye found in things like carrots) to colour the British version of mountain dew.

Yes the recipes for Mountain Dew, Pepsi, coke, Fanta orange among others are different in Europe & UK.

USA tends to eat sweet stuff with the savoury (maple syrup, sugar in bread & savoury cooking) Its not really something we do.

Apparently you can now get haggis, but only if made in America. The same with black pudding/blood pudding.

Somehow its entertaining watching the world crumble around you, keep it up!

You only need to look at the cost of health care in the US, to understand why they put all the crap in your diet.

Never mind banned in the U.K. All those yummy American things are banned in the entire European Union including your eggs and chicken products

These guys are pretty clued up, I've seen a few of there vlogs. I'm pretty sure they've lived in the UK (or still do). I remember seeing a vlog from Americans who visited the UK who tried Lemon Fanta and couldn't believe how nice it tasted without all the rubbish in it.

Really insightful! I'm British, would love more videos on Nutrition or food comparisons! So interesting and kinda scary 😅😂

I've travelled extensively in the US and when I was first there I thought I'd try a couple of cheese burgers and chips (fries) expecting it to be better than in the UK, since that's where it originated. I went to MacDonalds really looking forward to the experience, boy was I disappointed! It was horrible couldn't finish it.

I remember watching a documentary on Chocolate through time and around the 1960s? 1980s? They had an advertisement campaign with Smarties where they had to take the blue smartie out because it was made with artificial colouring and then they added it back because they found a Natural colouring in Seaweed

Basically in the Europe you can only add stuff to food if it's proven safe, while in the USA you can add anything unless it's proven to be unsafe.

Your bread isn’t actually allowed to be called bread. It has an ingredient that’s used in yoga mats. And yes, Pepsi Co changed the ingredients specifically for the EU. Sweden and Finland have also banned many of the US products.

Also FYI the FDA does not control deodorants, fragrances etc. most of these products that you put on your skin EVERY DAY are carcinogens!

First time I heard of Red 40 was from Reacting to my roots, that it's legal in America

Not banned in just in the UK but the whole of the EU that is even stricter than the UK when it comes to food safety. So you should get your foodstuffs shipped from France or Denmark :)

This is making me think of Super Size me, when a guy went to America and had McDonalds for 30 days, on day 1 the guy was literally vomiting back out the McDonalds on the road on his first day, he was close to organ fails on day 30.

Hospitals wouldn't make as much money either

I was shocked when they said potassium bromate

They didn't even get to chlorinated chicken, or why you have to keep eggs in the fridge 😂

This may be the most important video Tyler has done. The innocent, the uninformed, including children, are victims to the food industry. Educate family, and friends, everyone you care about. However, it is difficult to avoid these things as they are in almost everything processed. Requires a lifestyle change .

There’s one stark difference between food guidelines in America versus the rest of the world. In most other countries, if a company wants to add something to a food item, it has to be tested and proved safe before it is allowed. This encourages food manufacturers to invest money in testing to prove it is safe, and they need to do cost analysis to ensure the saving they will make by using is is more than the costs involved in proving it safe. . The FDA works entirely the other way around. Food manufacturers can add anything they like unless it has been proven unsafe. As such there’s no incentive at all for manufacturers to test any additives. There can be two outcomes of tests. First is that it is proven safe, and they can continue to use it as before, but they’re just spent a fortune on tests. The other outcome is that it is proven to be unsafe so they can’t longer use it, but now they’ve spent a fortune testing a product they can’t use. It’s a lose/lose.There’s absolutely no incentive to test anything. It s ‘state versus the individual’ way of thinking. Most countries oversee the safety of their citizens by ensuring companies only include safe ingredients, and they see that as their role, and the Citi agree. In the US, that’s seen as government overreach and smells of socialism, and communism. It’s up to the individual to make their own choices when it comes tk additives, as it’s part of the “freedom of the individual” mentality. The bottom line is everywhere, safety comes first. In the US, corporate profit, and lobby groups override the safety of individuals.

I think one of the core problems is that Americans no longer know what natural food tastes like with all the enhancers, aromas, additives they add to their over-processed foods. It‘s not that products taste better, they are only endlessly more intense and too sweet. Children will no longer enjoy the taste of a garden-grown vegetable or fruit because they only know the flavors from artificial and overpowering flavors… Potassium! Bro! Mate!

Dairy cows are grass fed but in us they're grain fed so our milk is healthier too and our butter is yellow because of it! Hormones in pigs can make pigs unable to stand but it's still meat in US so it's okay

I noticed a massive difference in how different US food tastes, and it really shocked me. McDonald's fries were so salty, i couldn’t eat them, and the diet coke even-was so sweet, it has put me off coke for life. I had take out pizza at my family's home, and it just tasted wrong, lol. I used to love lucky charms when i was a kid, but i definitely wouldn't eat it now, my only guilty pleasure is my cinnamon cereal...sure beats frosted flakes lol

The reason there's dye in mint choc chip ice cream is because mint extract is actually colourless, but people think it should be green because it comes from a leaf. That's why Ben & Jerry's mint ice cream is white. Edit: Tyler, it's "food and drug administration" not "federal drug administration" I'm a Brit and I've seen enough American news to know that.

Potassium bromate is banned in Canada too, as is RBST and other growth hormones. This is why US meat products are not allowed here. While ractopamine is allowed here 😢 there is a program called CRFPCP here that ensure that pork produced through this program are free of it.

It's good to know your FDA works closely with Doctors. What they don't say is the these Doctors are Pathologists!

Oh yeah, a lot of the products we have are different to the American version. For a start, to my knowledge we use little to no fructose corn syrup in our drinks. We have some imported products in supermarkets with the markup from taxes, etc, but clearly only those without the banned ingredients.

The thing is that American food producers go for quantity over quality. They also want long shelf life so add preservatives to permit this. You will find different types of fat, sugars etc in UK & European versions of similar products than the American. So bread for instance in the UK is only good for a few days, while additives in the US permits it to be stored for much longer. In recent years, due mostly to EU rules, many artificial additives have been removed from British foodstuffs, meaning that fruit candies now don't look as colourful as they once did, when certain colourants were permitted. It is these laws that mean European & British chocolate tastes so different, & much better, than the American version. Animal welfare standards are generally much stricter in Europe & the UK, which, for instance that chicken, & eggs, do not need the chemical washing that they receive in the US. The living conditions of the birds are kept much cleaner, which means the washing, which damages the carcasses & eggs, is not necessary. This why American eggs have to be kept refrigerated, but this is not needed in the UK. Thus UK eggs not only taste better, but the colour is better too. Many products, like bread, sauces etc, have many more added ingredients in the US, than in the UK. Thus the products are often quite different on each side of the 'pond' when meant to be the same thing. There are a few things that are the other way round, with a product, or ingredient being banned in the US while being permitted in the UK, but this is mostly to do with competition between manufactures, or supposed H & S concerns.

Challenge: Write a list of all these UK banned ingredients, then do your weekly/monthly shopping and make a video to show everything you bought containing these ingredients.

I’m from the UK and love SOME American food and look forward to it when travelling HOWEVER I’m glad I don’t eat it all the time and that our country does have stricter rules, as it is concerning when you think how many foods have these things in them.

Further banned in Canada: rBGH, BHA and BHT, Ractopamine, Olestra and Potasium bromate.

potassium bromate sounds like: "Potassium, bro! Mate! lol Please guys, try to eat healthy and natural, stay strong!

Well done for finding a really good video to react on this subject

It makes me sad and kinda angry that here in Canada we don't follow the EU or UK more closely with this. We do ban some stuff the US doesn't but not enough imo.

As with their gun problem, nothing will change. They will just ignore it and carry on. He probably went straight out after making this video for a McDonald's 😂

Living in the UK and having 3 children we read labels on pretty much everything, if the ingredients list things we can't get in our own kitchen then it's considered not very good.

Tyler, we in the UK (and the EU) have our fair share of lobbying national and transnational Corporations. We have our fair share of vested interests, and conflicts of interest in politicians. However, I am glad we have some regulation of foodstuffs. Also, we have better chocolate 🙂.

Our Pepsi has a simple ingredients list.. Carbonated water Sugar Colour (E150d) Acid (phosphoric acid) Flavourings (including caffeine) Sweeteners (Acesulfame K, Sucralose) No BVO in sight 😊

Tyler , Look on the bright side you won't self ignite with the fire retardants in your food ! I knew there was a huge difference after seeing a video showing McDonalds fries here had three products Potato, salt and oil while the USA. had 14 different chemicals etc in there frys. You would think that America would have the same strict food standards as other countries , Just need to say as a Scottish person Haggis tastes great. Great video as always .

The people in charge of the food are probably the same people in charge of the hospitals 😉

There are videoes on KZfaq that compare ingredients and serving size for McDonald's meals in the UK and Usa, very interesting.

It makes a lot of sense not to ban those things in the US because it helps the pharma and health industries thriving. Whereas in europe people are more protected because it's better to have less sick people in countries with universal healthcare. To avoid the unhealthy stuff would be cooking from scratch. But from i have learned so far that's not part of the American lifestyle because it's inconvenient.

If you watch reviewers tasting British food they often say they'res not enough flavour and not as sweet! We don't use glucose syrup in foods! Most of the banned foods are banned in Europe too!!!!

basic differance between the US and UK/EU is down to outlook and it's a complete oposite approch to food safty. In the USA a food/additive has to be proven to be harmful to the 90% of the population that are healthy. IE the people who dont have any long term health issuses like diabities, heart troubles ect. in the UK/EU a food/additive has to be proven to be SAFE to the 10% of the population that have health issuses. this means that when a new feed for pigs comes along and there is very little testing that has been done on it in the USA they can just start using it where as in the UK/EU it has to have proof that is it safe before it can be used. (side note US pork is banned in over 160 conties because of a pig food additive that is proven to be harmful to some people. under FDA rules it's alowed because it's not harmful to enough people)

Here in Canada there is no brominated anything in my Pepsi, Coke, etc!

I am not even sure about the usefulness of these additives; what is their additional cost ? I suppose that organic or healthy food is very difficult to find in the USA. These foods are also much more expensive. Having one's own garden is the only solution but it takes a LOT of work and knowledge.

Here in the UK we tend to feel sorry for those of you that are aware of how much you are being abused. Being aware and feeling that one should protest these things is NOT being unpatriotic, it is about being democratic and looking after the American PEOPLE rather than the Corporations! Soppy about any spelling errors as I just got back from having my (effectively free) Cataract surgery on the NHS less than two weeks after being referred for said treatment. Hows that for social medicine?

On May 5, 2014, Coca-Cola and PepsiCo said they would remove BVO from their products. As of early 2020, PepsiCo has stopped using BVO in all its products. BVO is still used in Sun Drop, made by the Dr Pepper Snapple Group.

Love watching Tyler's reactions as a Brit! But have to mention Americans and their amendments and their very guarded views of them. Even though they were created back in the day for one reason or another, Today they are sooo outdated!

BVO isn't in your coke or pepsi any more. It might be in smaller brands, but not the biggies. It's been illegal here since 1970. (Yours are still different - ours has sugar not corn syrup, for eg. Plus colours.) But American food standards are dreadful. From allowed ingredients right on up to allergen training and regulations. They're basically in the dark ages.

I wouldn’t say GB foods are necessarily healthier, but in saying that……American food must be horrific in comparison. We do have very high standards of food regulations, we have cut salt, sugar and fat content in food. We unfortunately still use too many preservatives. Convenience foods have only been in British diets since the 60’s, as we all followed the American system.

Yes I agree with @monty2005, we definitely should import Tyler to the UK, he deserves to survive. This is the reason I stopped going to the US. If the guns don't get you, the food will 😳🤮🇬🇧🇺🇲

Cook from scratch using good ingredients.

You should probably add almonds to your list of foods to beware of. To avoid the extremely small chance of botulism on almonds and i guess more costly but safer means of pasteurization the many almond producers in the United States began spray a chemical that was originally created for the racing industry but was banned for the carcogenic properties it contains that was endangering it's pit crews. So someone came up with the bright idea to use it on our food since handling it or breathing it in was way to dangerous.

One thing I don’t like here in the UK is the increased use of artificial sweeteners thanks to the sugar tax

You have whiteners in flour and colours in butter

This is what is truly scary: that Americans didn't already know this (when all this info is available) and that they trust their government agencies, which, as others have noted, give almost free range to corporate interests. Also, no amount of shaking your head, laughing, and saying 'that's crazy' will help.