For unnecessary food additives, 100% on the EU side and happy to be over here. Well, at least until JRM gets his grubby little hands into the legislation. I’m generally pretty happy with the way it works for medical stuff too. The steps are imperfect and will probably never be perfect, but there’s not a lot of lobbying because the politicians are out of the loop, thankfully. Bad drugs get caught and removed and the people making the decisions are smart about the balance of benefits and the risk of side effects. However tragic that may be for some individuals.

Agree

Even worse, for the US it's more like "Prove that it will affect our bottom line."

US = Prove it is dangerous; do it anyway.

Yes, the policy in the US is what happens when industry basically writes the rules. And even if you prove harm, the level of proof required to change policy is ridiculously high.

Have you ever heard of the FDA?

@@TheZacman2 lol. the same FDA that's allowing the chemicals in the foods. The FDA would only step in if it's found the stuff is super dangerous.

@@TheZacman2 I’m Dutch so I’ve heard of the FDA but I’m not very familiar with them. However based on this video I think it’s safe to assume that the protection of people/animals/environment is not at the top of the list for them, but maybe money is. Not saying that’s true in all cases but there are some sketchy decisions

@@TheZacman2 your state Department of Health or Agriculture has a lot more involvement on inspections of food processing facilities than the FDA does.

As an American, we’re very aware junk food companies don’t care about us 😩

I think they were confused because they didn't know what a lbs is

I've just been in the US for one week, gained 2 kilos and had bad skin. Also felt pressure in my Belly all the time.

@@AsdrubaleRossi But they did know that it's not a lbs, it's a lb

@@fuglbird I'm sorry, I'm not an expert in primitive measurement systems :P

as a teenager i travelled to US. after reading some food labels, i only bought whole food and only ate when i had access to a kitchen.

For your health it is not relevant if it was made "artificially", if a substance is a cancerogen it is a cancerogen

I mean it's not really a badge it's just there it's expected it's a fact

don't forget the labelling of "natural flavors" on the package too.

@@lorettatayor5840 "natural and artificial flavors" yeah It's weird but you get used to it

Another variant I came across a couple of years ago when staying with friends in the east of the US. They brought home some steaks from the supermarket (wrapped in plastic of course) and the packet said "Extra juicy" "30% water". So, in fact, 30% of what you just pay, you pay for water (virtually free from the tap) , not steak. I don' get it...

The bright colors are to make kids ask their parents to buy it, it is also to hook kids on junk food for life.

It attracts the attention of the sheeple.😂

@@davehendricks4824 😆 sheeple, never heard that word, love it!

@@lorrefl7072 you’ve got to be kidding me! My theory: if you’re not “woke” you’re ashleep!😂

In nature, the more brightly colored you are (snakes, spiders, etc.) the more toxic you are.

Subway bread has same ingredient as the rubber sole on your running shoes

In Ireland too, Subway took the Irish government to court over it lol.

​@catbeara oh you mean same chain with the footlong lover jared

@@Blessingsuponyou I... What? Is this some Subway lore I don't know about? 😅

The meat is classified as wtf in America

I had the same experience in Mexico! My face went completely bananas with cystic acne after a few weeks!

Did you take your own soap, or use soap in the household you stayed in?.

@@uncletiggermclaren7592 yeah thats a bit simplistic to assume its the soap. I am sure over a lifetime in their home nation they used a wide variety, many of which are available worldwide. I am in the UK and I know many friends who in the US got horrible stomach aches and whatnot after eating all that food. My best friend is moving to Virginia in 2 days after a lifetime in the UK so I will learn more 😆

Same thing happened to me, but that might have been something to do with me pushing the limits of what the us considered food and size portions Literally going to a restaurant and asking for the most American thing possible, and receiving a deep fried everything probably had no effect.

Just to add to the problem, all those various “safe” ingredients actually have a compound effect. Most prominent example is Vegetable oils (especially BVO) act in tandem with that bulk of sugar in your soda to completely wreck you.

It’s amazing looking around at just how many people are sick with all kinds of gut and autoimmune issues. I’m super careful with everything I purchase but everything is poisoned here. Other than growing or raising your food supply which would include everything I’m not sure what to do. What’s worse is knowing about it and feeling helpless and crazy for it. We’re being poisoned at every turn.

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You mean YOU were poisoning yourself. Plenty of healthy, organic choices in the US but also many bad options

placebo effect. you thought it would help so it did. there is alot of good food in the states. also you probably changed your diet overall so hypothetically, if you ate alot of dairy in the states and ate less in the EU by chance that could aslo do it

​@@ghostbirdlaryAbsolute horseshit. Gastric problems aren't something that can be cured by placebo. Our country simply isn't all that great a place to live. Accept it.

The Kinder Egg ban was because of the CPSC, not the FDA. The Kinder Egg ban was because of the toy, not food standards.

If your looking for Kinda chocolate eggs with toys inside, I know a guy.. .

@@madensmith7014 interesting

Right ! Nice to know ur half dead at 7 yrs old. Yup cancer bodies being dissolved from the food u thought was there to help u grow SMH

😂😂 dude! I love you! 😂😂

My favourite E number is E300 - the extremely scary acidity regulator... ascorbic acid, or otherwise known as vitamin-C. (As well as E301 and E302 which are the sodium and calcium salts of the same.) Or several ones from the food colourings section: E100 - orange, curcumin, the "superfood" part of turmeric. E101and E106 - orange/yellow, riboflavin, or vitamin-B2. E140 - green, chlorophylls, the green from leafy vegetables. E160a and 160e - yellow-orange, carotene, vitamin-A precursor, why you eat carrots. E160d - vibrant red, lycopene, the antioxidant in tomatoes. The whole 161 range is basically various carotenoid pigments that are flavonoids and antioxidants (the good parts) in plants. E163 - pH dependent pigments, anthocyanins, antioxidants in berries.

Exactly - this "E-numbers baaaaad!" thing has been annoying me (especially in the UK media) for decades... what's even more annoying is that companies have somehow been allowed to pivot back to using obscure quasi-scientific names for additives because people believe it's healthier. You used to get a very brief list of 5-10 numbers in the ingredients - very easy to check if you know certain things you have to avoid for medical/dietary reasons - now you have to scan through a paragraph of mumbo-jumbo and look up everything you don't recognise.

Almost all salad dressing is made with soybean oil, a toxic "vegetable" oil. Nothing wrong with meat if it is pasture raised, of course this makes it much more expensive.

@@remyllebeau77 "...soybean oil, a toxic "vegetable" oil..." What is the toxic part, care to name some chemicals?

@@irgendwieanders2121 Are you serious? These were waste byproducts from other industries, and then they found out with enough treatment they could feed it to humans. Jake Tran has a video that explains better than I can.

@@remyllebeau77 Yes I am serious. And sure, you can talk about industry etc... But, simple question: How long is soy oil in use?

@@remyllebeau77 palm oil is a huge cause of cancer but we don’t see this being mentioned at all… soybean oil have this “toxic” rep because the right people paid so it would be so. The problem is not the oil, the problem is how some places like US produce it.

It seem the bleach is there just to get rid of the evidence. 😃

Bleach is also a fantastic wine substitute.

That explains why the few (us based) food channels I occasionally watch on yt are always going on about salmonella... when I was a kid, I was taught to always be careful with chicken & eggs, make sure they're done and all that, but other than that, I don't think it's on anyones mind. I'm almost 40, and I don't think I know anyone who ever had a salmonella infection. (just looked it up, Germany went down from ~200.000 confirmed cases in 1990 to under 14,000 in 2019, at ~83 million people)

That is just some bad logic. You assume all US salmonella cases come from chicken, what is just not true. Go take a Logic 101 class first before you comment.

@@Riley512 - yes, you have a point, it may not only be chicken, it may the _the entire rotten U.S. food industry._ Because if in 🇺🇸 there are almost *twenty times* as many cases of infections with salmonella than in 🇪🇺 then, yeah, it may not only be an issue with chicken.

The same for my son’s family. When I saw how many common ingredients in US foods were banned elsewhere I knew yet another government agency in America was bought by the corporations.

Agree. But then corporate amerika, Wallstreet, the crooks, etc., would not be able to grift as they all currently do.

Thank God I don’t indulge in these foods. Greed is Bliss!!🥺

Make food unhealthy and make money, have a private health care industry making money off the effects. Hey, YOUR an 'effect'.

When I spent time in Finland, I ate heartily and lost weight. I know it wasn't simply that I was walking more, since I walk daily in the US as well. American food is poison.

It is pretty good, yes. As somebody with a nut allergy, I am particularly grateful for the fact that common allergens are now required by EU law to be printed in bold in the ingredients list, or mentioned separately at the end (many manufacturers do both now). Standing in the supermarket quickly scanning the ingredients list for anything in bold is a lot less embarassing than people seeing you meticulously read the lot of it. Also, from the pictures I've seen of US food packaging, it seems like ingredients lists are not required to be anywhere near as legible there as they are here in the EU, where there's a minimum font size and the requirement for the text to clearly contrast against the background.

I’m wondering if there’s a market for real food in the US, and not the slop being served as “food”.

Cellulose materials are used as thickening agents in bread f.e. over here in the EU as well. Though I just checked our pantry and couldn’t find any products using blabla-cellulose. Most producers switched to using spelt and other fibers - which is the exact same thing, but sounds nicer. It’s not „extracted“, but just ground up finely.

where in europe? i m sure it s not allowed as ingredient in Germany....@@ArDeeMee

Yeah that’s what I thought when he said it. It doesn’t seem like American consumers are choosing to eat the chemicals in bread. It seems like the chemicals are there and if you want to eat bread, meat, cereals etc then you have to eat the chemicals too.

@@shelleyjames4446 Would be an interesting bit of history to look at. I suspect US consumers essentially did choose in the past, although maybe not an educated choice. One company starts adding chemicals to gain some advantage (e.g. lower costs, longer shelf life, etc. more profit margin than an equivalent item. Or better taste or lower shelf price to capture market share). People brought the one with additives and so soon every major producer does the same to remain competitive.

If you buy your food shopping in one place, such as a Walmart and are on a budget, I can understand buying whatever is available within your budget, but if you have time and care to do so, seeking a butcher for your meat that hasn't been cleaned with chlorine etc, find a bakery that doesn't add sugar in the loaves! Obviously this will not be feasible for everyone as I'm sure there's fewer and fewer butchers and bakeries in small towns and not everyone can travel to the next big town/city to buy a special food item, unless you can do it online but then it's not always accurate information

@@shelleyjames4446 yes exactly. It’s no choice really, either eat rubbish or don’t eat. I’d much rather eat British ‘bland’ food. Was a genuine concern of mine atleast that post Brexit our food standards would/will drop to American standards.

@@SyncViews I suspect that US consumers also didn't really get a lot of choice about it in the past either. Competition is often mostly illusory, with multiple brands all actually owned by exactly the same parent companies, and in the US in particular, a lot of products tend to only be sold regionally rather than nationwide. Also, if the additives increased profitability while not affecting taste (to any noticeable degree), and they thought that customers wouldn't even notice, then literally every big company will have treated that as a no brainer of a decision, so even where you actually had a choice, it was probably between multiple products that all decided to use the same additive!

Toxic

Some companies make what they call fruit flavored cereal and apple flavored cereal that have neither fruit nor apple in them. Read actual ingredient list and not just title of cereal. Also so called cheese flavored dog food does not taste like any kind of cheese I have eaten that I can remember.

Rat droppings?

That's actually hilarious lmao. The rats knew...

I don't eat fruit loop but I Fcking love them. But I am glad I stayed away for Yeaes from them

“Preservatives” is usually on the label

Nail on head.

Almost. The US has health insurance. Its just privately funded.

dangerous food and costly health care ... work nicely together ... win-win

And in one country, the more unhealthy the population is, the more money the "health" care industry makes. Just saying.....

*Gasp* it all makes sense now…

Nick S , I know, but when we were little, chicken were bought live from a nearby farm, milk was delivered by the milkman, in glass containers, bacon was fatter, no lean, cereal was brown, not rainbow, and Mountain Dew was not yet invented.

@@summerbrooks9922 I couldn't imagine living in those days. I feel like I missed out. I hate that milk just marinates in plastic, sits in a fridge for days at the store after sitting for days in transit via truck. That is all I have ever known.

@@summerbrooks9922 how do people not know?

@midwestbadger2503 don't know about platic milk jugs but iv noticed that if I leave water inside a plastic container it tastes different than to a glass container or metal container

@@ehtresih9540 yes, that’s probably the BPA. It’s best to store your liquids in glass

I had the exact same.

@@MQuinn-si4tpWow.

‘Hidden sugar’ in preserved meats is likely your particular issue …foods here are often ‘taste tested’ but they don’t list who the cross sample is who is ‘tasting’ …so areas who have people accustomed to more salt or sugar skew the taste tests

You have set me off on a fascinating quest to learn about ants and their funeral habits! I have mostly found reference to Trix cereal though.

@@Lily-Bravo ​ antscanada is a great channel of ant related things dont think you'll find a video specifically about how they deal with their dead though

awesome, when I see these colorful loops I can't eat them either, like chewing on styrofoam

Carminic acid is produced from dead bugs that use it to detere predators and nobody cares about it. Honeydew is bugs' shit that bees eat, vomit and turn into honey and people praise it for the taste. People with lots of imagination and weak stomaches really shouldn't check what they are eating.

But dead ants are tasty, in a piquant / spicy kind of way.

Consumer protection is not high on the agenda in the US, they seem to prefer corporation protection.

Americans have a skewed impression of what Freedom actually is.

@@iriscollins7583 not most Americans, but our government, lobbyists, and corporations definitely do. They could care less what they infect the citizens with, they aren’t eating this crap.

To be fair, Eu food labelling regulations have lists of exemptions too .

U could tell people exactly what's in it and thier response is that it tastes good. This food is altered to be 200x more addictive than meth

information barrier is always the biggest hurdle since the rise of humanity

There is big problem with this line of thinking. If you allow everything then the large chunk of industry will adopt to using all the steroids, additives, and bleach agents and what not as long as it adds profit margin. This will reduce cost of such produce but only by rather small percentage. The big problem however now is that if as a consumer you wish to buy unbleached chicken without steroids there's gonna be very little choice for you and because industries that operate in this way are smaller they will not have same economy of scales and thus will be forced to sell their products much more expensive so you end up paying multi fold more. Potential healthy ground could be taxation on additives that are not proved to be 100% safe.

The difference might be Monsanto glyphosate aka roundup

Keeping (US) people sick makes Big Pharma go round!

@@proverbalizer Good point. Another factor might be a much higher gluten content in GMO wheat

I absolutely noticed the same thing several years ago, I wasn’t sure if it was how it was grown or if it was all the walking I was doing in addition to eating pasta daily. Then about a year after that an article came out blaming procurement of the crops. If you want to see more organically grown non-GMO foods come by organically grown non-GMO foods. No one needs the government to just get rid of products, people Who can afford to need to use the power of their wallet to make the right choices without that being the only choice anyone gets to have. You can also buy Italian pasta in the United States or use US pasta alternatives such as making zucchini noodles, spaghetti squash, or making/buying your own fresh egg noodles correctly harvested no gluten added wheat.

Pretty much all bread in the USA sold in shelves or typical bakeries is all fake. When i lived in the USA i strictly only ate bread that i made, never ate bread anywhere else. Country of garbage fake food.

I’m from Australia and whilst our food safety is probably a bit more relaxed than Europe. I remember visiting my family in California for a couple of weeks. The food there, whilst often quite delicious, well also often tasted “fake.” If that makes sense? Like I could honestly taste how processed some of it was. And the bread especially tasted so gross to me. Like I’m sure some things are added to make sure our bread stays fresher for longer (given how far some of it has to travel to end up in stores here) but even still. It doesn’t taste like sugar like in the States. Blech

It's unlikely that they will. You are, unfortunately, better off going back to Europe to live.

Haha, glad you appreciated our regulations in the end. In the UK we've been having arguments for years since the Brexit vote about what to do with our regulations, whether to ease them to assist with international trade or keep them strict like the EU. The EU strictness appears to be winning so, fingers crossed.

@@YonaSoundcloud The eu however have been lowering their standards, breaking the brexit agreement and accusing the UK of lowering food standars.

@@someonerandom8552 I sawsomeone comparing how much sugar was in a piece of toast in the US and the EU. EU had 2 gr sugar per slice, UShad 6 gr per slice. That's why it'sso sweet.

As you should.

Be afraid, be very afraid.

America and China. They are both sides of the same shit coin. China not only have chemical food,they also have fake food.

Agreed. Yes I’d happily eat the chicken but I do want said chicken to have had a happy healthy life.

healthy meat comes from healthy animals. I won't eat meat from deadly ill animals if I knew.

Don't turn this into the sad arsed vegan channel. Take your misery and depression elsewhere.

Agreed but might be needed for volume of consumption so it is affordable.

That's still pretty much what happens during factory farming unfortunately, as nice as it is that they put some of these rules in place there's a bigger problem with how animals are farmed

Same here in the NL

It's super weird. Both the US and Europe chose their regulations around the sale of eggs in order to protect consumers from potential diseases. In the US it's illegal to sell unwashed eggs, because the dirt on the eggs could get people sick. In Europe it's illegal to sell washed eggs, because the process of washing destroys the natural protections causing the eggs to be vulnerable to diseases. The exceptionally lower number of Salmonelle cases in Europe makes me believe that one method is better than the other, though. (For one, the eggs in Europe require better treatment for the chickens and a cleaner production line. Secondly, the eggs in Europe don't actually HAVE to be refridgerated, meaning that there's not such a risk of a gap in the cooling chain getting people sick.)

@@tobiasreinhold7642 US logic: People will eat the egg shells. Let's wash the natural packaging.

Good to hear you still follow EU rules

@@tobiasreinhold7642 It's because the appearance matters more to the US than the insides. They have a more superficial culture - if it looks good, that all that matters, never mind if it isn't good

Thanks for sharing your knowledge, but why is it “interesting” that sounds sort of passive aggressive to me

Monsanto (now Bayer) makes round up (glyphosate) then breeds GME food plants that can tolerate a killer dose of it. This abused by big farm and can be subsequently found in the food made. More than 30 countries have banned it's use.

that sounds insane but makes some sort of sense. Synchronized crops. I'm making hay over like 3 months so far, because I refuse to use chemicals and the weather is patchy. There are ways round usign chemicals, but they all involve patience, and aren't profitable. If the bankers paid the farmers, they'd be able to take their time and find a way. Or we could shrink the human population down to a sustainable amount, but.. We need cheap workers for profit. Profit, profit, profit, tax, monneeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeyyyyyyyyyyy

Yes I think we are all suffering from some amount of inflammation from the additives in most bread. In some cases it's not the "gluten" it's the preservatives. Eincorn bread, ancient whole grain bread has gluten but does not trigger inflammation, so, its what they have done to the flour, not the flour itself. They have stripped it of its natural enzymes, making it difficult to digest.

@@mohammedjeffali1076 it's the new varieties of wheat. Bred for yield not food value. That and the longer flour is in the bag the more food value it loses.

Another factor is that glyphosate is sprayed on wheat to dry it out before harvesting, but not on Organic.

I’ve also heard in some cheaper made breads that use yeast they also do shortcuts so the body struggles to process the faster made yeast breads.

I make a no knead bread. Only water, flour, yeast, and salt. Only lasts 2 days but flavor is amazing and much safer 😉

Which is why eating disorders and obesity are out of control here.

I've heard they serve pizza at school for breakfast. Not sure if true or not, but I wouldn't be surprised.

@@101steel4 I attended a public (county/state run) school in Georgia in the US from 2000-2012. I can confirm that we got fed frozen slices of pizza with sausage bits on top for breakfast at least once every two weeks, if not every week. Pepperoni pizza was for lunch only (again about twice a month). My school district was so poor that every student got free breakfast and lunch. We weren't allowed to bring food from home to eat, except in cases of verified allergies. Cereal (including fruit loops) was the only alternative to whatever was being served for breakfast thar day.

@@AndieJ32209 and allergies

I have a UK recipe book from 1948, for school dinners. Great attention was paid back then to the adequate nutrition, protein, carbohydrate, vitamins, etc.

To me it seems so silly to prioritize the looks of fruits and vegetables over their flavor. I don't eat it with my eyes, I eat it with my mouth! The joy of food is the flavor. If I want something pretty I'll look at artwork. Can't stand how flavorless so many supermarket fruits and vegetables are. The tomatoes taste like nothing and the strawberries are bitter and disgusting. If anyone reading this can find a farmer co-op nearby, there's a chance you can get much better quality. Yeah, it might be smaller and more pricey but the difference in flavor and nutrition is absolutely worth it. And it's honestly still cheaper per pound than buying boxed foods like cereal. When I was poor, I budgeted all my food purchases on price per pound and was able to eat a diet of mostly local fruits and vegetables with nutritional yeast, bulk rice, beans, and oats. My doctor said I had the best cholesterol she'd seen and I spent about $200 a month on food (2016-2021.) Now, my definition of a desert ended up being things like roasted squash or almonds with full-fat yogurt so it's not exactly a glamorous or "comfort-food" way to eat, but I can't deny how good it was for me and I'm transitioning my way back to it because buying easy, tasty, sugary food with all my new income hasn't been working out great for my body. If you want to give it a shot, start replacing foods slowly over the course of like 6 months. Every time you take something out of your old diet experiment with something else in your new one. The key is a lot of variety -- I would have 5 kinds of canned beans in my kitchen at a time (no sugar added, please check,) 8 different kinds of frozen mixed vegetable blends in the freezer, three kinds of rice in the cuoboard, and rotate different kinds of fresh vegetables in, especially as the seasons changed. (Four or five kinds of squash! Two kinds of eggplants!) I'd also make a point to try new kinds of whole foods pretty regularly, even "weird" things like organic beef liver (super cheap, actually) and grains I'd neve heard of before. I'll acknowledge I was blessed with a lot of natural-oriented hippy grocery stores in most of the places I lived, but if you have a car you should be able to find some decent variety in your town (I walked to my grocery stores and occasionally took the bus. Only buying what you can carry when you walk home for 1.5 miles is also a strategy that makes you make very good food decisions lol) My favorite recipes are 1) brown rice; black, pinto, and red beans; and roasted butter nut squash 2) peanut, sunflower, almond, and cashew butter blended with bananas 3) Boiled beets, carrots, russet and golden potatoes or sweet potatoes, broccoli, cauliflower, eggplant, and zucchini 4) steamed cauliflower, broccoli, carrots, and zucchini with rice and generous amounts of nutritional yeast The great thing about this kind of cooking is you can add pretty much any ingredient to anything else and it would taste good. Adding asparagus and sweet potatoes to the mix? Great. Side of beans or full-fat greek yogurt? Tasty. Bowl of rice with nutritional yeast? Yum. Adding an egg or two to pretty much any dish? Wonderful. The key for each meal is to have some kind of carb (fruit, rice, oats, quinoa) some kind of fat (nuts/nut butters, yogurt, avocado, or coconut milk), some kind of protein (fish, egg, beans, nuts, etc.) and a few vegetables. (Where are the bread and noodles? Those are more processed foods!)

You can also wear gloves to avoid getting stung of course.

Nettle pancakes/crepes with apple sauce are so damned good! 🤩 Or feta cheese&nettle quiche. Omg I feel a freezer raid coming on! (yes, i have nettles in my freezer, doesn't everybody? 😂😂)

And vinegar doesn't belong in Sauerkraut neither!

and?

Don't know enough about sulfates, but there's nothing wrong with MSG. The end result has less sodium.

@@pelidesign Depends on the style.

@@TheoRae8289 It doesn't belong in sauerkraut. It isn't a food that has savory as a flavor to begin with. Adding is like whoever was making it didn't know how, but they had a sample of some that was cooked from a known brand and they replicated it as close as they could using their food sciences degree instead of doing 1 hour of research first into the history of it.

The first thing I noticed when I moved to EU (from US) 20 years ago, was that I didn't feel as anxious anymore. At the time, I chalked it up to cultural differences, but now I believe it was the diet diffefences.

That is very sad. I think that is why we Americans have such foggy boggy minds and so depressed we can not even move.

You're not the first one commenting on this. There must be some real dangerous stuff in US food.

@@gardyloo3093 Another factor (depending where in the EU) is less exposure to motor traffic. I was much less stressed in the Netherlands because I rarely encountered fast/heavy car traffic, and thus the stress and risk that comes with that

@@OntarioTrafficMan When I first noticed that difference I was living in London, so it probably wasn't due to traffic reduction! Although I myself wasn't driving, but instead using public transport, so maybe that helped a little.

It also went out of business after it turned one kid orange when she became addicted to it.

... and you can look up an E number easily to find out what it is.

it's used for fearmongering a lot, and I guess it makes sense.. E948 sounds a lot scarier and artificial than Oxygen indeed, it's always good to remember that "it contains a lot of E numbers" is a pretty pointless thing to say, you're just saying it has a lot of ingredients, most of which are great, some of which are unhealthy, as in all things in life, especially food :)

@@rondowar Fearmongering is in fact part of the debate. But the sentence "contains a lot of E numbers" isn't completely pointless, it just depends on the context. Ingredient list of a ~3 buck box of microwave food? Sure, lots of ingredients are to be expected. Ingredient list of a random bottle of water? Lots of ingredients would weird me the f out!

Dont they only get added if those elements are introduced to the food, rather than it already being in the food, e.g., vitamin c in an orange.

@@astonmartin4326 they are specifically for additives yes specifically, each additive that's allowed to be used, gets an E number (later on, that additive might be banned though, and it won't be removed from the list of numbers)

Animals not creatures - respect

That is my philosophy when raising livestock that will make the ultimate sacrifice for us. I am ready to go back to my own butchering so they don't have to make the stressful ride to the butcher shop. When I do it they are calm and don't know what's coming. I hate seeing those trucks on the road jammed with animals going hundreds of miles to their death.

Correct

Respect them by slitting their throats for a sandwich?

@@teegee5231 do you mean “respect them *by* . . .”? That’s a pretty important distinction.

Good eye! Love my LL Bean flannels

Cake is a totally acceptable breakfast!

Your body just needs to be genetically modified too, to survive the genetically modified food. 😮

same here, I feel like people are just lazy and think the government is supposed to do the work for them. I don't understand how people don't know that processed food is not good for them?

@@Sean-zr7vs Many Americans don't eat to be healthy. They eat to stay alive. Poor Americans have no choice in general as they can't afford actually healthy food. The US is the only first world nation where junk food is cheaper than healthy food.

yeah...my family has no "food sensitivities" when they eat my cooking from scratch..

@@donalkinsella4380 That’s not why - I never ate beef in the UK. In fact, even in the US I still hardly ever eat red meat.

@@donalkinsella4380 I know you have a narrative you wanna push but I never got sick from anything I ate in the UK.

profit - cheaper - dominate markets - no choice

Even if you scan the labels doesn’t mean you will identify all the nasties. They can omit many chemicals that are in small quantities or part of processing. Want to know “ where” that product came from, or if it’s fake? To bad, they don’t have to disclose that information.

@@marilynalspachtoth5635 A sneaky trick of the eu food legislation is that ingredients of a constituent ingredient do not have to be labelled - a manufacturer only has to list the ingredients they put in. Take a fruit cake. The ingredients will list "cherries", but to get a bright red cherry in the cake after baking will require use of an azo dye food colourant in the cherry, but it doesn't have to be listed if the manufacturer buys in pre-coloured cherries!

The thing is, if you have no right to know what is in the food you put in your body, how do you even choose ?

@@cigmorfil4101 Cool someone mentions this . There literally is a list (iirc actually several ) of so called "non-ingredients" which do not have to be labelled - for various reasons - acc. EU regulation . What I do like about this is that here seems to be healthy awareness about this in people concerned about food quality where i live .

The global history of the sugar cane and beet and booze industries and mechanized plantations run by experts vs 40 acres and a mule run by trial and error hobby farmers …some countries economies thrived others crashed

Good point! I learned the same. The idea of neon food is so bizarre and unnatural. They're colours you usually see in plastic and paint, why would that be appetising?

That's my thoughts every time I see those bright blue "sports" drinks. Why! Are you adding dubious food colorant! To something marketed as healthy! (No it is not banned here I am in Poland)

Great rule of thumb

good thinking. the colourful compounds added in usa food are mostly azo-dyes, they contain azo group, which cause cancer and myriad if problems

Thank you, I love this. I'm definitely adopting it.

What!?

@@MarcLeonbacher-lb2oe exactley

Color*

@@tfordham13 Colour is the british spelling, and while it is possible that I have since aquired a mix of american and british english, in school we learned the british spelling, so that one stuck, especially with words you learn early, when learning a new language.

@StAngerNo1 color was the original British spelling and was inyl change to colour because of rich asses that wanted to set themselves apart form poor people

@@tfordham13 Are you sure about this? Because it originally came from latin "color", but via french "colour". So it seems more likely that it was always colour before the americans changed it.

@@StAngerNo1 nope

It's all about the money. Healthcare is a profitable business.

So yea US is only money money money and “best capitalisam in the world” 😂😂😂 show me the money und Gruß aus Germany

@@zelimirfijacko9293 The US is all about freedom. Freedom for corporations to monopolize a market, freedom for corporations trying to make a profit in human suffering. Unless you want to drink a beer openly. That's taking things too far!

The faster we die, the less social security we collect.

@@vidal9747 The USA is all about short term profits. No humanity allowed there anti-humans.

What an interesting degree.

Save us! 🙏🏾

This!

Yep. Found in many, many other products too!

The extract of spinach might also be being used to fortify the cereal with additional iron. Lots of cereals are intentionally fortified with various key vitamins and minerals.

@@seraphina985 Sadly it is just for colouring the food - the cereals ARE fortified with iron, but they do that by...adding powered iron to the mix - looks pretty much like iron filings

Natural colourings then?

Yes American food just tastes like,, so much. Coming from Australia it was hard to eat over there because most things tasted either extremely salty or extremely sweet. Definitely a lot of strong flavours in their food but not the good kind that come from herbs & spices, the kind that come from additives

Anyone that thinks Swedish food is bland hasn't tried Surströmming.

@@rob876 . That crossed my mind too.

I'm an American, living in Europe. The food in the USA that comes in boxes, or from restaurants is heavily salted, and most have sugar, even the savory stuff. It covers up the flavor of shelf stable chemicals, and the vitamin and mineral additives. If you eat that stuff regularly it literally takes weeks of eating actual food and having it taste bland for your taste buds to recover and be able to taste normally again.

No clue about what it's like in Sweden, but coming from Romania to the Netherlands, the vegetables here are for the most part borderline tasteless. This has to do with the fewer sunny days, the particular varieties used (long shelf life preferred) and the fact that many are harvested while still unripe, again for enhancing shelf life. Mind you, this is changing in Romania as well, as supermarkets replace farmer markets, and supermarkets prefer to bring said long shelf life methods over the veggies that spoil within 2-3 days from being picked (effectively zero shelf life). And that's on top of the traditional recipes, which don't really use all that many spices and such.

That’s right. You put in an initial investment of time to read the labels, make a list of foods you approve of (on your smartphone- the world at your fingertips!), and accept the fact that certain things will never be „ok“ to eat, but go on the guilty pleasures list.

But I’m not a nutritionist or a chemist so I don’t know what is harmful and what is not. The gov should do better so that all the food isn’t dangerous,

why not. Your health is your most precious asset at the end of the day.

You're not the first diabetic who's commented on blood sugar level. I don't know what's begins it, but the "casual relationship" seems strong enough.

you should do it out of respect and love for yourself. I am moving away from US as well. I have so much more energy and feel heathier in Europe. And it has a lot to do with food (but non-hustle stressless lifestyle as well)

Maybe you walk more in England? Different urban setting

I went to europe for a year to study, i lost much more weight without trying than the i did in US on pre bariatric diet (500 cal/day) for a year. Insane

Plaster in their cottage cheese.

Which is pointless, because the human body cant process iron in that form.

@@Legendendear Presumably that does not prevent them stating that their product 'contains iron'.

@@helveticaification which is technically not wrong but...

@@Legendendear causes oxidative stress to the body due to massive free radical build up.

*with european accent* Ah! Welcome, my friend! Oh, where you are? You are at the pearly gates of heaven, that we call "Europe"

? Hawaii imports its milk from the mainland at $6 a pop …that’s why it costs so much …its cost in diesel to ship it

Which company did you switch to?

Don't read this with a combatant tone. I comment to maybe ease your concerns regarding the pain threshold of cows. Cattle eat, sleep and shit directly in a spectrum of the harshest conditions nature can offer. Everyday and night, and the only thing they complain about is hunger. If this does not convince you may be underestimating the toughness of these big boned beast. Strip down to what God gave you and go spend the night in the woods. I'm not actually encouraging this experiment, but I reckon it'd take more than a moo and a draw at the feed to send you about your day?

@@rd3095 I have absolutely no idea what you're saying or what you're trying to get at ... Or, really, what it has to do with my comment..... And, you do realize that a naked human is not equal to a cow that someone hasn't popped a jacket on, right?

@@nanaak8617 it's a small local dairy farm ... Telling you exactly may be too close to telling people where I live... But they have a milkman who delivers the milk in returnable and reusable containers, which I love and feel like we should have never stopped doing. I can get eggs from them as well, I absolutely love it Edit: If you're looking to switch in your area you could try googling dairy farms that deliver near me or small dairy farms near me or something similar....

@@IrelandFyre "was painful enough to bring me to my knees. If that's being done regularly to cows" you do realize the pain thresh hold of a human is not equal to a cow right? All I was trying to say, because I have spent my entire life with cows, is you MIGHT be underestimating what is and is not painful to them.

as a US citizen i wish we followed your example

Don’t forget Australia. Our food standards are pretty much in line with the UK/EU (despite American pressure).

In the EU you also have to prove you have a right to freedom. Government typically assumes you don’t. (In the US freedoms are by default & gov’t is typically blocked from trampling then.)

European view that people are inferior to government traces back to the age of monarchs. That attitudes never went away. (In the US the people are the sovereigns; govt is the servant.) EUROPEAN UNION also bans things that don’t make sense. Like California champagne or pinot wine. “It didn’t come from France or Italy so you cannot sell it here!” Protectionism.

If I put a sign in my yard that said “Black people suck” the various EU states would arrest me. In the US the government cannot do anything. It cannot trample free speech, no matter how offensive .

for a lot of things, we don't. Processed foods are likely just as bad, so that includes your breakfast cereal. However, our meat is of far better quality.

Ouch.

Lol

Worldwide

EUROPEAN UNION also bans things that don’t make sense. Like California champagne or pinot wine. “It didn’t come from France or Italy so you cannot sell it here!” Protectionism.

@@electrictroy2010 so?

@@electrictroy2010 It's only as much protectionism as any trademark is. Do you have issues with trademarks in the US? Or did you just not think that far ahead on the topic? In either case, these cultural trademarks are not granted freely, as they come with several rules and regulation that describe what the product needs to be to be considered the said product. This is done specifically to ensure that certain products don't deteriorate and their quality and traditions are not eroded in senseless profit-hounding.

I agree that the nettle and spinach extracts are likely used for colouring but the way the ingredient list is laid out seems odd. The only colour specified is paprika - why weren't the other extracts listed as colour to make it obvious they're not nettle flavoured?

​@@electrictroy2010no problem putting "Pinot" on the label since that's the grape variety. "Champagne" however is a district in France so would be false marketing in Europe. "Sparkling wine" is what it should be called.

But it seems unfair to blame all of the U.S. when not all places in the US are like that.

@@aycc-nbh7289 We're all complicit in it dude, if we ALL stood up and said "no more!" it would go away. But instead we just keep letting it get worse.

@@knightofcydonia1192 But is it really fair to blame all of a country for the actions of a few of its regions? Would you blame all of Ireland, for example, if Dublin was home to a wide array of diners and restaurants with healthier selections, but Cork was only home to what would be considered mediocre chain restaurants that sell processed food?

@@aycc-nbh7289 "of a few of its regions?" What on earth are you talking about...? The US food problem is nationwide. The government itself is complicit in taking bribes from extremely powerful corporations, in order to keep business-as-usual rolling in. This is not some small issue that pervades tiny swaths of the nation, it is an endemic issue that the entire country has to reconcile with.

@@knightofcydonia1192 This is not as big of a problem, if it even is one, in more populous regions that have more access to homegrown alternatives, though.

This!

You should see where Red comes from ⚠️

@@zam1007 not for ages unfortunately. And people it was Beetles Blood

@@alexisantonakis6592 Though some so called cochineal food colouring was actually not - people associated the name cochineal with red and so instead of containing actual cochineal (E120) it actually contained an azo dye (E122, E124, E127).

@@alexisantonakis6592 Cochineal was probably the very first item traded from the Americas. My local town Stroud grew rich making Scarlet wool cloth for soldiers uniforms.

Wow

Well, in the past few years, experimental jabs were claimed to be safe for pregnant women. How crazy is that?

Is that what it was !!! I had two children in the '70s and they just tested my blood. Had another in the late '80s and the doctor insisted I have this sugar test. I drank that 20x concentrate of orange pop and the sweet was just pounding through my veins for 2 days. I don't eat sweets. I like bitter. To put that in my system was undescribable. Then they figured the test came back with a false reading because the numbers were so high. Needless to say, I told him where to stuff it. If I was exposing my child to becoming a diabetic it would be through DNA from my grandmother not from the little bit of sugar I ate. Fast forward 30 years maybe there is more research now on insulin resistance because your American processed food supply is sooo sweet. Your bread tastes like cake.

@@evan it's amazing how various countries ban various foods from various other countries but ALL of these countries allow people to kill themselves with cigarettes and those around them with second hand smoke 🤔 .

Actually they removed BVO from Mountain Dew years ago. Bromism is, however, very uncommon.

Hi! Brazilian here. I'm curious, what did you eat in Brazil that stood out for you? What seemed different from the US?

@@FeScully might have been the crumbs they serve with every meal. They say it's good for your stomach. Seems legit cause I had no digestion issues the whole time I was down there. Or it could be that the food there just isn't as processed and fake like here in the US.

@@dedhart By crumbs I guess you mean the farofa, right? I’ll look it up. I’ve never heard it’s good for the stomach. I hope you enjoyed your trip to Brazil

@@FeScully Farofa sounds right, and Brazil was wonderful thanks!

@@FeScully farofa is made of cassava which has a lot of fibre, so yeah that's why Dylan had a functioning stomach there.

The labelling in the UK can still be misleading if one doesn't look at the content per 100 grams. If looked at closely, some labels will say, per tablespoon full, or, for example, a meat pie, content per 1/3 of a pie etc.

The people who pass the laws don't care about the people or the animals. To them, people are just livestock. These laws are about restricting energy or fuel in order to cut the population. If people were not restricted in these ways, for the silly, made-up reasons, the population would grow faster. The appeal to animal welfare, and such, is an emotional smokescreen only, for the masses, which is called the ostensible reason. Look at the skinny little milk carton the guy in the video "pours" onto his cereal. It is restricted at the mouth of the bottle, like I have only ever seen on alcohol...

@@-taz- most of what you said is nonsense, I prefer to eat quality meat from high welfare livestock. I don't why you seem to want your food to come from farms that are disgustingly unsanitary. Most people just tear off the seal, Evan is wierd and punches a hole in it.

@@-taz- Politicians care about votes and supermarkets care about sales, so they respond to consumer pressure and politicians respond to pressure groups within their electorate. I know this because I am one of the consumers that pressurised them into changing and I do care about animal welfare. I am also aware that they will try to get away with claiming products are organic, fair traded or free-range when they are not, so we have to stay vigilant and keep up the pressure. There are two kinds of people in the world - people who make decisions and victims of other people's decisions. You do have a choice

If you were that fussy, you wouldn't be buying anything with an ingredient list.

I wasn't born in the US so I don't feel the same. One of the first things I don't miss whenever I leave the country is its food. And one of the first things I don't look forward to when coming back is... eating American food.

@@iPlayOnSpica and everyone bitches that americans are fat.

That's America. Lying for money was basically something Americans have been generationally brainwashed into believing "virtuous," or a sign of "intelligence." Being king of the short bus while you're still on the short bus is kinda the plan.

​@@Reiman33 "Thefreespeechzealot". Red flags everywhere. Also mr free speech thanks for literally denying the experience of someone else. This guy is here saying he struggles with something and you come out and say "no you don't" despite not knowing jackshit about his life. Moreover what this guy is expressing is a rather simple and logical situation. The USA is a deeply patriotic and proud nation, so this person much probably is used to feel this towards his country because of how they grew up. However as they discovers that objectively there's much wrong with the way of life in the USA, they find themselves in quite the struggle of having the face the cognitive dissonance of the country being so ignorantly considered great, despite the fact that... it mostly isn't for the average american. Finally I'll add that I don't see you translating any of your ideas into anything else than youtube comments. Not everyone has the will (or the ability) to go on an all out revolution because of how life is. Most people are very small and insignificant, only the rich have the right to decide which world they wanna live in.

@@Reiman33 Grow up. There's a lot of bitterness and resentment you're projecting onto a total stranger. Psychology Today has an easy way for you to find a good and affordable therapist in your area. :)

What? No, German bread isn't that expensive. I live in The Netherlands, a few kilometers from Germany and bread costs just a few Euros. A standard whole grain bread in the supermarket costs €1.19. A fancier bread might be double or triple that.

@@Yggdrasil42 i meant in the US :D

I had same experience. Was back in the 90ies when i went to the US a number of times. Back then, things here in NL were still good, but its going down here too now. Not as bad as the US yet, but still. Its partly bc you see more and more US products on the shelfs in supermarkets, which really never happened before. And traditional products disappearing or getting way too expensive. Its over a decade already when my youngest daughter wanted 'ben and jerry' icecream. So i said why on earth would you want that US crap? Its friggin expensive too?! I bought it for her (she already had some somewhere) and tasted it, but its really not that good. While we have great ice cream in NL. Much better and cheaper. But, its hyped and kids fall for it. ;[ You see more and more such shite now. I really hate it.

American foods are also excessively sweet for no good reason. Iced tea in Taiwan is sweet but not too much so. Iced tea in Texas is so sweet you could make freaking candy out of it. Must be a cup of sugar in each glass of tea there.

Oh, well, if your gf says it then it must be true.

YES American vegetables & fruits are different. Our soil and the insects in the soil are different. For example we cannot grow European grapes in US soil, because it has worms that eat the grape roots phylloxera. This should be obvious that two continents separated for 20,000 years (due to oceans) will have different species & conditions.

@@electrictroy2010 Thats not it m8. Sure those account for small differences, same as within Europe, or even within a country or region. Imo its more to do with bad cooking habits, inappropriate use of herbs and adding salt and sugar to everything. Maybe also additives

Yea but when we mention E numbers, we are specifically referring to the bad ones.

@@mdx7460 "bad" is neither here nor there. Paracelsus noted already 500 years ago that everything is poison and nothing without poison - it's the dosage that makes whether it hurts or not. Water is critical for our survival. But drink more than a gallon in a short time and your kidneys will wave goodbye. We critically need salt, but ingest too much of it and again, your kidneys will go bye-bye. Botulinum toxin is one of the most lethal poisonous substances we know. It's a paralyzing nerve toxin. And yet, people ask to have it injected straight into their face in high dilution to look younger... Heck, even ascorbic acid, aka "vitamin C" has an E-number because it's used as an antioxidant and preservative. A whole lot of food colorings are nothing but extracts from plants. E 100 - curcumin - comes from turmeric. Some are made synthetically even though in theory, they could be isolated from vegetables. E-160 a-e Carotenoids naturally occur in carrots, tomatos and sundry other orange to reddish vegetables. In fact, beta-carotene is converted to vitamin A in the body. And the body gives a flying f*** about whether said beta-carotene has been purified from carrots or created synthetically.

@@mdx7460 Not really. More often than not, especially in uninformed people, the generalization "E numbers" makes them think that they are ALL bad stuff.

Also, when it has an E number it means that it is actually tested, and has a maximum dosage to be safe

@@justarjen Still it is funny sometimes, like with E 172, where I can be sure to get a safe dosage of iron oxide for red colouring 😁

If enough Americans stopped buying sugary, additive foods, the companies would change their products.

@@earlysda There are powerful interests behind the food products. The producers of those foods are no different from the tobacco companies. Their main goal is profits and they managed to imprint their products to the young generation and they will not change their habits when they grow up. The average consumer also has no idea what he is buying and what effects all the chemicals in foods might have.

how are "chemicals" defined in your opinion?

@@ToriZealot In this case, "Chemicals" are additives that are not food or its ingredients. Simple as that.

@@adamabele785 you might be interested in the EU definition: food additive shall mean any substance not normally consumed as a food in itself and not normally used as a characteristic ingredient of food, whether or not it has nutritive value, the intentional addition of which to food for a technological purpose in the manufacture, processing, preparation, treatment, packaging, transport or storage of such food results, or may be reasonably expected to result, in it or its by-products becoming directly or indirectly a component of such foods;

You said "it's quite common for there to be rotten/spoiled food on the shelves". I am shocked - is this really true? In a developed, modern country, are there no inspectors, procedures or quality control which can roll into action if 'unfit' food is being offered for sale in a commercial establishment? It would be interesting to see what these stores have available, and the prices, and then see what a roughly-similar store in a small town in various countries in Europe can offer.

Oh, I completely understand. As someone who was flabbergasted the first time living in the US because I can't just...walk to the town's main street to the grocers. I was informed that if I want to go grocery shopping, I'd have to go to the next town over. There was no such thing as a grocery store in town, never mind that it was a freaking university town. That was a definite WTAF moment for me.

@@Marewig you said: "There was no such thing as a grocery store in town, never mind that it was a freaking university town." Another, totally shocking (to me), aspect of 'American Life'. I have lived and worked in over a dozen countries on 3 - some would say 4 - continents. I have lived in small inland Australian towns a 24-hr bus journey from the city; I know what distance and low population density means. But a _university_ town without a single grocery shop? How many students did the university have - 11?

@@lizzieburgess674 Nope. It was one of the top 50 universities in the US, because I literally checked the ranking before I applied. Yeah, the mind boggles, doesn't it? I was unprepared for it, because I literally have never lived or visited a town that size in other locations in the world that _don't_ have a grocery store, even if it was a small one. I mean, it even has a teaching hospital for its medical faculty, for goodness' sakes.

@@Marewig What the ...? was that about then? How did that even work? How far was the 'next town over'? Was there any public transport to/from this weird and peculiar university town to a place that _did_ have a grocery shop?

There's already shown to be a demonstrable link between gut health/gut bacteria diversity and mental health. So...yeah, who knows what additives are triggering the digestive and/or immune system, even if on a low-level scale?

RBST probably 😂. But don't worry the FDA says its safe 😂. But seriously another American who's traveled to Korea and Japan. Even lived there for a time. Basically all my allergies I had in the US went away living there and I, despite actually eating more than back in the US I was losing weight living there and my hypothyroidism was cured.

A lot of the world uses a2/a2 breed, and the us predominantly not. A2 has far less lactose, which is harder for your body to break down and digest as you age. Many have access to raw dairy, too. When homogenized, pasteurized and fat often removed sugar, synthetic a and d vitamins have to be added. Anything labeled lowfat means sugar (under 200 names) has been added.

@@Pomeray8 I'm pretty sure skimmed milk, at least in the UK, doesn't have sugar added. It just tastes a bit sweeter because there's less fat so more of the rest of the milk including sugar.

Banana milk is not dairy (just like almond milk is not dairy).

Banana milk is just any milk with a banana added. In Europe we use a mixer but my Korean friend just crushed the banana up with a fork so you have chewy bits, which is really nice

I rather eat those than the dreaded US version.

You can always put in some berries together with the cereal, if you want more taste.

beets can also be used for color

Yup. Natural colors. WAY better than artificial. Orange, usually from carrots. Red, from red beets, etc. But they also use dark red from for instance a type of lice (you may have seen them on plants. If you squish em in your hand, your hand becomes all red) All of these have E numbers btw. Good or not so good.

That red is probably the insect’s blood. THE UN has launched a campaign for people to replace meat with insects (including that lice you described).