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What Foods Are Banned in Europe but Not Banned in the U.S.?

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Re: What Foods Are Banned in Europe but Not Banned in the U.S.?

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Post by danmaz74 »

freedomben wrote: post #99
danmaz74 wrote: post #84

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Banning ingredients for food is a very specific kind of ban. I'm against the war on drugs, but I'm totally for banning strongly psychoactive ingredients from food - cannabis should be a controlled substance.

Many people consume cannabis specifically as an ingredient in food. But at a broader level I think it's unproductive to limit categories to "banned in food" v. "banned", since that's a very arbitrary distinction. Also: > but I'm totally for banning strongly psychoactive ingredients from food - cannabis should be a controlled substance. That reads to me as contradictory. banning != controlled substance

Banning in food = you can't sell food containing the substance as normal food. Nobody would prohibit you to mix it into your own food and eat it, though. So, the substance's uses are controlled, but it's not banned :)

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Post by stedaniels »

Someone1234 wrote: post #18
stedaniels wrote: post #13

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Kinder Eggs..

Kinder Eggs aren't banned in the US, Kinder Surprise is. Even Costco sells Kinder Eggs.

My apologies, where I come from, the UK, Kinder Egg is colloquially used in place of Kinder Surprise. It wasn't until a week ago, after decades of only knowing one type of Kinder Egg, that I came across Kinder Joy. I've just seen on the Kinder Surprise Wikipedia page.. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinder_Surprise the very first line "Kinder Surprise, also known as Kinder Egg"

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Post by knbknb »

In Europe, the food industry can legally apply lots of food-altering measures from a large bag of tricks. To name a few: Foaming up stuff, adding water to add weight; using cheap low quality substitutes; removing bitter ingredients from decaying fruit by "steam-cleaning"; enzymes in the bread dough ...

In 2018 or 2017 they removed the import ban for high fructose corn syrup from the USA into the EU. Now HFCS making its way into many supermarket products.

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Post by rleigh »

lj3 wrote: post #25
nugator wrote: post #7

As a European I'm interested in knowing what most Americans thinks about this (their food has additives that is forbidden in Europe). Is there a feeling of Europeans being too cautious or would you like to have the same rules?

I would love to if the US had the same food quality laws that European countries have. By HN standards, I'm a right wing nutcase and am in favor of as small a government as we can stand, but our food is killing us. Bread has sugar in it. If you want bread without sugar in it, you must either pay more for the organic stuff or make it yourself. If you want bread without any additives or preservatives at all, you must b…

Sugar is in pretty much all bread. It's a matter of quantity.

I bake all my own bread. I use one level teaspoon of caster sugar in warm water to get the yeast going. You can add a bit more to get a harder crust on the bread. But this is so little, and it mostly gets used by the yeast, so that it has negligible effect upon the taste. Salt makes a vastly bigger difference.

I understand that much mass-produced bread in the US has greatly larger quantities of sugar in it. In the UK, this is only seen in "long-life" bread (which tastes terrible, and I don't know of anyone who buys it).

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Post by Filligree »

danmaz74 wrote: post #74
kortilla wrote: post #40

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>then I don't think I get the logic on the default being "okay, feed it to your kids!" Why would you feed something to your kids just because it’s legal? Who are the idiots that just pick things blindly off of shelves in stores without reading what’s in it? Sugar is completely legal, yet I read the amounts of sugars in foods to avoid high sugar items. I’m also not giving my children bottles of olive oil to drink with…

Do you always read all ingredients for prepared food you buy?

Don't you?

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Post by amai »

knbknb wrote: post #124

In Europe, the food industry can legally apply lots of food-altering measures from a large bag of tricks. To name a few: Foaming up stuff, adding water to add weight; using cheap low quality substitutes; removing bitter ingredients from decaying fruit by "steam-cleaning"; enzymes in the bread dough ... In 2018 or 2017 they removed the import ban for high fructose corn syrup from the USA into the EU. Now HFCS making i…

Please cite your sources.
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