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I am speaking as an American. There are too many chemicals used in food and on food in the U.S. Some produce is grown in depleted soil. People in the U.S. are addicted to processed, junk food. It's about a quick fix eaten in a rush. I appreciate the French orientation on cooking fresh food and enjoying a meal!
To add that the Industrial Revolution started that trend for production over quality of food. So over 200 years Americans have been exposed to that and some foods are heavily salted. Part of that was food storage and the other is Americans are addicted to salt and high sugar because they have lots of land. Just another perspective from America’s history and to its geography.
I'm speaking as a European and this video is made from the perspective of someone well off financially and does not reflect the daily life of most people. Most living in a suburban setting, aka the masses, shop for their food in large retail chains. Just like the rest of the Western world. Most common fruits and veggies are available year round and having them sourced from far away is the norm. Yes, the Carrefours of this world also carry local specialties, as do American stores btw, but it's a sliver of what they sell.
More than 1500 chemicals, dyes, artificial aromas and so on are banned in the EU but not in the US. A soda in the US contains around 35% more sugar than the same one in the EU Obesity rate in the US is around 46%. It's 9.2 in France. Let's not even talk about diabetes or heart diseases. Life expectancy in France is more than 6 years longer than in the US. Our ''bad'' food is still way healthier than average food in the US
I noticed this when I went to London. SO many items here in the US contain chemicals banned overseas. But the US is about profit at all costs, and making people sick means more money for our corrupt insurance and medical industry. I'm honestly fed up with so many things here that I want to move.
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We recently went to London and Paris and the food in Europe is so different than the USA. And by different I mean way better! The color of the egg yolks was so much darker and everything tasted so good. Our food is high with GMO products and it has so much added chemicals. Sometimes these chemicals are even labeled as heart healthy. You are so lucky to have such amazing food! I garden now and grow all my own veggies. So much better.
I hate to sound so negative but as an immigrant to the USA, coming from Scandinavia - Sweden I couldn’t agree with you more. But with that being said, of course you can find eggs with deep dark yellow yolks and organic foods but you have to pay dearly for it and living in California it’s the second most expensive city in the US (I live in Los Angeles) so people here unfortunately have to sometimes sacrifice their health for less quality foods as groceries are extremely expensive.
Why would you live in California? It’s dangerous, overwhelmed with degenerates, work people, and as you said, extremely expensive. The quality of life is aweful. Consider moving to Texas, but not Austin. That city is disgusting like LA, San Francisco +++ human feces and drug addicts everywhere
Hey Lucile, I agreed with most of what you're saying. Here in California and the U.S. in general, the problem is not the access to good food, it is spending time learning to cook and cooking at home. When I started making my own coffee at home, I stopped going to Starbucks. On the rare occasion, I would go to Starbucks and I would immediately be overwhelmed by the amount sugar in the drinks. When you cook your own food, you are in control of what goes in it.
Absolutely! If you eat a majority highly-processed diet ANYWHERE, you’ll feel terrible. And a lot of North Americans are addicted to highly processed, packaged foods. My boyfriend and I try to shop local and organic according to the season.
I live on the west coast of Canada. Sadly, buying at the weekly farmer's market in my neighbourhood costs twice as much as a supermarket. They have everything; cheese, baked goods, vegetables, seafood, bottled sauces and spreads, honey, pasta, chocolate, but I usually only buy one thing and give up. I'd like to commit to local food, but it's hard.
Enjoying your videos :) I’m an American who lived in Europe (Switzerland) for a long time in the 80’s and 90’s. I concur with everything you said here. One thing I do is grow my own tomatoes, and are they delicious! So, I only eat tomatoes in season…..those pink “tennis balls” you see in the grocery stores in January are technically tomatoes but I don’t bother with them. I am noticing a trend in some restaurants here (east coast US) toward more local, fresher ingredients. Watching your videos reminds me of my European life 🥺 Keep up the good work!
I got a good laugh and some warm memories when I saw that you were using a clip from Du Pain et des Idées. I was in Paris this last September for a friends gallery opening and happened to choose that bakery for my last breakfast in France. It was awesome. I would also agree, after eating a pastry in Paris (or Seoul, South Korea for that matter) things here taste gummy and unsatisfying.
Lucile, as an explanatory note (and I suspect Bobby has told you this), Americans and Canadians often work very long hours and have very long commutes to and from work. This, in addition to the fact that North America doesn't really have a general "cooking culture", results in less time in the kitchen and more consumption of "prepared" food.
As a single American living in a rural America I eat the same thing everyday 3 times a day. It’s literally just grass fed ground beef cooked in grass fed butter with pink salt and jasmine white rice on the side and a few glasses of cream top Grassfed milk. It cost’s me $700 a month just to eat these basic things and I have to drive 45min there and back just to get milk so there’s gas involved too. I want to move to Europe so I could potentially try bread and fruits and vegetables again to see if I can tolerate it
Lucile, thank you for your perspective on healthy eating. I actually think that the obesity problem in the US is caused by malnutrition. In other words, we have fat, starving people out there. We overeat to compensate for the food that doesn't nourish us and poisons us. I have followed many videos about nutrition and you gave us such valuable information.
Hi, I’m German and I really love France and French food. You’re absolutely right about the freshness and tastiness there but I am happy with ours here, too. We have so much organic food and it seems a bit easier to find vegetarian or even vegan options over here. But this is probably also easier in Paris and other bigger cities than in the smaller ones. Anyway- great video AGAIN! Thank you for always sharing your thoughts and showing up on UA-cam. Love it! ☺️🙏🏼💕
Yes, German food is very high quality too!! And you're absolutely right, it's easier to find vegan options than in France. Thank you so much for watching and leaving a comment 😊
Food is great in Germany too for sure. Just like in any European country. When it comes to cuisine, i'd rather go to France or Italy though tbh. No offense, sorry. 😂❤
@ 😂 non taken! I also wish we had more French restaurants over here but at least we have tons of Italian food and most of our home cooked meals is quite Mediterranean influenced nowadays. Thank god. 😂😜
The one thing that really shocks me about France (incl. Paris), is that all the food, wine, produce is incredible...but the coffee is so average. And I absolutely don't mean Starbucks (that's not coffee!). I mean a rich roast, nuanced aroma, balanced acidity, layered flavor profile, body, finish etc. I've lived in so many places around the world - from Denmark to Australia to Italy (and beyond), and I'm a bit sad not to be able to find an equivalent level here. I love our cafés though. If only we could care as much about making our coffees as we do about our wine!
Hello Lucille, you are absolutely right. A long time ago I went to Italy and I love the food really outside of my country. In the states I try to stay with fresh ingredients and stay away from ultra processed food. In Italy, the foos was so much better and the state sucked unless we cook from fresh ingredients. Thank you so much we need more voices like yours. 😊
J'ai appris que si dans la composition d'un aliment il y a plus de 3 choses que tu ne connais pas, alors il ne faut pas le manger. Merci Lucile pour cette vidéo si intéressante ❤
I grew up on a cattle ranch and was surprised, after leaving home, that store bought beef tastes as bad as it does. (I was also shocked to find out how expensive it was.) What shouldn’t be a surprise to anyone is that the “food pyramid” that we used to fatten cattle is THE EXACT SAME ONE that the government promotes as being healthy! I work in the healthcare industry, so I’m quite familiar with how the general public suffers from healthcare illiteracy, but am surprised at how people don’t make the connection about those food pyramids… Love your channel! Keep up the good work!
Shopping at local farmers markets is a good way ot get fresh veggies. Problem is there are not many farmers markets in many areas.. Yes processed food is bad for you. Too much salt oil(fat) and salt... Great vid btw...thanks!!
At the town(St. Hippolyte du Fort) which I have gone to often has an open air market every Tuesday and Saturday. The local farmer who sells mostly vegetables always has a line of locals to buy his food. Always! By far the most popular!!!
As a German I do absolutely agree with you. I could never live in the U.S. - because of the unhealthy food. I love too cook daily. Vive les jeunes femmes françaises qui savent encore cuisiner! (Btw: I visited France last summer Paris and Normandie. Wonderful!).
Having lived in the US, there's definitely great food there, but it's a bit harder to find than here in Europe for sure! And so nice! I hope you had a great trip :)
Lucile, I have been to France and Italy three times since 2022 and will go again in the spring of 2025. I go for many reasons--but eating well is one of the top reasons. And eating well--quality and fresh ingredients, prepared by people who care, and served to people who expect good food--make is extremely difficult to come back to the US.
I mainly eat whole foods here in the US and use the FlavCity app on processed foods, which scans the SKU and gives it a thumbs up or down and the reason. At 63, I'm healthy and only weigh 5lbs more than I did in my early 40's when I was sporting a 32" waist.
For profit healthcare For profit education For profit prisons For profit child protective service ... The US is a dystopian ecploitative nightmare that indoctrinated submissive uneducated people entorse, Stockholm syndrome style
So much truth. I never ate as well as I did in France. Flavor! I’m American, and I cook 20-21 meals a week. ALL of my meals except maybe one meal. But I am not the norm.
I enjoy your videos and have learned a lot from them! The chocolate peanut butter candy you got in the US are called "Buckeyes" because they look like the very large nuts from Buckeye trees, which used to be common in Ohio (where I live). The origin of the name is disputed--maybe the eye of a deer (a male deer is called a buck). The Buckeye is the symbol of Ohio State University and the football team (very important to Americans) are called The Buckeyes. The real Buckeye nut is poisonous, so a home made candy was invented by ladies in Ohio to look like buckeyes. Many people still make it themselves and the ingredients are basic and don't have chemicals. But it became so popular that now several commercial candy companies make a version with preservatives, etc.
Thank you so much for the backstory, so fun! We were in Ohio when we ate it and I actually really loved this candy! Peanut butter and chocolate are just perfect together!
'If it rains tomorrow, we will have Xorta!' Heard in my local Greek eatery. The chef there actually talked me out of having a tomato salad, because the tomatoes tomorrow would be even better! When they are that good, he suggest not to use olive oil as that will mask their flavour. American corporations have never mind poisoning their own countrymen to make money. That's also reinforced by supermarket chains. In Greece you can't sell tangerines, celery and other things without the leaves on them to indicate their freshness. In the UK, which tragically followed the US slavishly with additives and factory farming, I had never seen celery without the leaves cut off, and a tangerine with a leaf, for the obverse reason. Incidentally, you have Charles de Gaulle to thank for so many small bakeries and the freshness of bread in France which, in terms of patisserie, is still a shining example to the world.
I grew up in the Midwestern part of the USA. Now, admittedly, my mother is a terrible cook. I was in 11th grade when I found out that you can MAKE SOUP. If only ever seen it in a can at home. My friend’s mom made homemade soup once when I was visiting. I was flabbergasted. I’m obsessed with making all of my food from scratch now. It’s appalling the food that I was fed as a child. I’m a physician now, and I see these eating patterns in my patients. Americans don’t know what is healthy any longer, as a whole.
Grew up in Northern California, lived in South Korea for several years, and now an immigrant to France, going on 4 years now. Never had these issues you mention. I lost and maintained weight in California, weight fluctuated in Korea, gained weight in France. Some of it was health and fitness level reasons and mental health reasons, but as for actual food, I never really noticed a difference between all the areas I've lived, but I rarely eat processed food except as a treat once in a while, and mostly cook at home, but I grew up in a region where the variety of food is extremely diverse produce-wise and culturally-wise, my stomach can tolerate a wide variety so I never had issues when I went abroad. Are there legit issues wuth a majority of food products in the US?, I'm not gonna deny that, but junk food exists everywhere. For me, I make the exact same food choices no matter where I go and I've usually never had issues, when I do have issues and my digestion is involved, I know for a fact that my mental health is probably not in a good place. If I had to be completely honest though and admit sonething, the times I don't have as much control over what I eat and I will have major digestive problems is when I'm spending at least a week or more with just French people not in charge of the menu, I will actually get sick, maybe it's just the people in my bubble, but I know a lot of French people, and I find their diet not varied enough for me, not enough veggies (whole veggies you have to chew), not enough fiber, and just as a personal annoyance with my bubble of people not enough flavor, lol, I like complex flavor profiles, while most of my French people are "allergic" to most of it (my Thanksgiving menu was extremely boring this year, lol, only flavor agent allowed this year was salt, nothing else). I almost never had these issues in Korea, I felt the variety of the food I ate even when I didn't have a choice of options (like at work). This whole thing makes me think of something a French friend said to me once, this friend had a colleague from India that moved to the US for work, gained weight, blamed it of the rice saying that sugar was added to the rice in the US, the French friend insisted this was an issue in the US, asked if Indian friend was cooking mostly at home, French friend said yes, and mostly buying products they were familiar with, yes, was he adding sugar to his rice then, no, so youre saying they coated dried rice in sugar, yes, are you sure.............are you sure your Indian friend read the nutrition label and not the ingredient label?.................because you know rice is a carbohydrate, it hase sugar in it naturally, in the US they are required by law to list the amount..............it's the same in France by the way............(if you're wondering, all the dots are my French friend without an answer). Moving to a new country on your own and for the first time is stressfull, trust me, I've done it twice.
I found the “food desert” concept so odd when I heard about it. It’s obviously a different culture because us, East Euros would grow something on every square meter of our yards if we didn’t have stores in the area (and even when we do). In America though, people seed lawns everywhere instead of gardening. I think it’s because people in the US haven’t been confronted with food shortages since probably WW2.
Love your video! We mostly cook at home because US processed food is so bad! I bake my own artisan bread. My dream is to live in Paris, been there twice! The serving sizes are a suggestion for a healthy amount, but saying you should not eat more than 2 T of peanut butter. Our country is so confused about health!
I was so shocked at the quality of the food when visiting the West coast.😱 We once went to a fancier place (it was pretty expensive) and the food and surroundings (linen, proper cutlery) was what we know from normal affordable places in Europe. We travelled to Asia the year after and our kids still talk about eating really well in Thailand and not well at all in the US.😜
Love your videos!!! Always so helpful. My time in Paris was amazing. I ate sooo many carb but didn't gain a pound! I was so shocked. I also walked wayyy more while in Paris. I am curious to know the app you used to see the harmful ingredients in food! I need that in my life!!
Basically the ingredient label should read like a recipe from a cookbook, not like a chemistry exam. Peanut butter is a good example because the "clean" version of peanut butter is 2-3 ingredients whereas you can find some brands that list over 15.😱
When I lived it Spain the food was so good and fresh, even in the uk I notice the difference in tomatoes. But way shops are going in the UK I feel we are moving more towards high processed foods like in the US.
I am so glad that you mentioned Trader Joe's. For many of us, this is the closest that we will ever get to the high food standards that are in France and other parts of Europe. They don't use any artificial or fake ingredients in any of their foods, and they have a dedicated tasting panel. Many times, their products can through several months to, in some cases, multiple years before it ever makes it to the shelf. They also travel the world looking for unique ingredients. They recently came out with an organic baguette, and they get them in daily. They are absolutely delicious and a must try the next time you are in one! It's the ONLY one that I would recommend to you! They are very close to my heart.
I could speak for hours about how much I love Trader Joes, so I'm happy to find another fan in the comments haha I don't know their organic baguette but I've had their fresh focaccia so many times and I also love their fresh bagels too!
I am in an expensive food oasis. I used to love Trader Joe's but have become cautious when there. I learned of diseases (such as listeria) in certain offerings, sloppy standards for packaged/sliced fresh fruits, questionable terms such as "wild caught" salmon, over-sugaring of basics such as bagels (as Lucile discovered), etc. I used to love Whole Foods but standards have declined a lot including service (that used to be as good as Trader Joe's). On the other hand, I have beeen going to the nearest weekly farmers market for 30 years (since it began) and it has always cost at least 2x, 4x more than as any supermarket and attracts throngs of smartly dressed clientele. Good quality ingredients are very expensive in the US. I hope Lucille reports on food in Tokyo now (where food is a bargain and there are direct flights from Paris).
As an American I can tell you I stayed at home to raise my children and cooked homemade meals daily. I did the same as my mother and grandmother did. The Genetically modified food had its start after WW2 in the US and is being fed to many, with most of the population being ignorant of this. Research history and how a country can be conquered through food, causing obesity and sickness, then selling prescription drugs to mask the symptoms. Eventually, operations may be required, then more money is to be made on the people until death comes. In order to get good food here in grocery stores, organic has been required. But now they are starting to even mess with organic food. For instance putting a toxic substance on apples and other fresh fruit and vegetables called Apeel coating to preserve them longer. People are worked to death in this country just trying to survive eating toxic foods, and they don’t know it. However, they are waking up. Our skies are being sprayed with chemtrails, depleting the soil. Many are starting to grow indoors or outside greenhouses. The weather is also manipulated. Research HAARP Weather Control. Research what President Lyndon B. Johnson said in the 1965, “He who controls the weather will control the world.” May God help us!
French food is high quality because French farmers are paid to over produce from the EU Common Agricultural Policy. This means that only the best quality food reaches the supermarket. The lower quality food is discarded. But it does mean the consumer has to pay higher prices than they would if French farmers were less subsidised and more competitive. There are 750,000 French farmers, which results in small inefficient farming compared to other countries. They wouldn't survive without EU subsidies. They are also protected from cheaper overseas competition. Fewer preservatives mean the food is fresher but has a shorter storage life. Food with more preservatives has a longer storage life. Sugar and salt behave as preservatives. Drying, freezing, canning and pickling are other methods of preserving food. This is more necessary in the USA because of the much longer distances between the farms and the cities. Paris is surrounded by farmland. NYC and LA are not.
There are still some of us Americans that don't eat fast food, only prepare meals from scratch at home, shop seasonally at farmer's markets or forage (blackberries, etc) ourselves. But yes, our FDA is a joke to allow poisonous preservatives in our foods. They are all about quantity instead of quality. Ridiculous. I would love to live elsewhere! P.S. When I watch UA-cam videos, I pretty much only watch people that live in other countries for ideas of different meals and ideas on lifestyle and skincare products. Thank you!
I would love ❤️ to try out some French food, but I can't get enough of the British food here in London, England 🏴 which tastes so bloody delicious 😋 I appreciate your content, Lucile! Did you check out the new Notre Dame Cathedral yet? 🤔
I am coming to Paris from Canada in April taking my friend told her when you get to France the food is gonna be heavenly. We just have terrible culture in North America we also don’t walk as much
French and other EU countries understand and believe in eating experience with ambiance. It is about spending a quality time with your family, work mates, and friends. (even if you are eating alone..) Such things can't be rushed, it requires relaxed moments to take in the enjoyment. And wonderful food with glass of your favorite drink to enhance your experience. No rush, just enjoy.. 😛
It’s not just France. It’s almost every country I have visited outside the US. Part of it is the “food pyramid”, high fructose corn syrup and the insane amount of poisonous additives in our country
I wish people in the U.S. would invest in ourselves. Yes the food is amazing in European countries and there are definitely awesome places to find great food in the U.S. but a lot of our food is so bad for us.
My French mother always said: “Il faut manger pour vivre et non vivre pour manger!” [You must eat to live, not live to eat!] When I was a kid, and later a teenager in France, there were no supermarkets, even just 10 minutes from Paris by train. Everything was fresh as could be-there’s just no comparison. Ok, I think the truth must lie somewhere in the middle! Now I’ve been living in the Netherlands for a long time, and people here are also trying to eat as fresh as possible. You also see that a large part of the population is, or is becoming, vegetarian. The only things I really miss from France are the simple things: les baguettes croustillantes and un bon steak frites. And, sorry, but I also miss a few processed condiments, like, for example, la mayonnaise à la moutarde d’Amora! So delicious! I’ve tried making it myself many times, but I just can’t recreate the original taste!
After being able to find raw ground meat as a snack at a Netherlands Aldi - i read up on food safety. And I think most of Europe - you have to prove additives or whatever aren't harmful to people, that they are safe. In US it is opposite - you have to prove the opposite - that things are actually harmful. And for some stuff - like processed foods - that would take a long time. So... US has so much random stuff in food. And I think US never developed a strong cooking from scratch culture because it's a young country. So microwave dinners and ultra processed - was just part of life. Not sure if you saw how many recalls US has had recently...
Statistics speak clearly: In the United States, approximately 42.87% of American adults are considered obese, with a Body Mass Index (BMI) over 30. While in France, it is significantly lower, at 10.92%.
The food pyramid used to teach children how to eat healthy is the same one that we used to fatten cattle. The government does not want you to be healthy past retirement age. That would enable you to recoup some of your social security “investment”.
@ and its made with real fruits and veggies and grains and other ingredients as Well. No high fructose corn syrup or cheese like prodcts. Americans eat fake synthetic food .
_"...obviously to read the list of ingredients but I feel it's just so complicated when there's so many of them."_ That's the sign, actually. If a product has a lot of ingredients, don't eat it. If it has only a few, you are usually OK. _"...most of these are hidden additives."_ They're not hidden, though - they're listed in the ingredient list. Again, the rule of thumb is, if there are more ingredients than you believe there should be, put it back.
Yes but in that 1hr and 2 minutes we are eating 4x as much as you! So technically we are number one at eating food! I'm sure you saw evidence of this on your trip to NYC :P
yes, i believe in the US they don't ban food additives until they're proven bad for you ...Here in Europe they need to know they're safe BEFORE they approve them....i live in the UK where the food culture is closer to that of the US than to France's but the food is nowhere near as ''plastic'' as it is in the US ....
The fruit we import from the US is terrible, strawberries, blueberries are sour, tomatoes are mealy. It's so disappointing. The salad greens go bad before the expiration date.
I laughed so hard to see what grade Korea got on the statistics you brought😂 I get the impression people from America just don't care that much about good food. My sister lives in Canada, and she told me that getting an hour of lunch break is not just that common in North America. And I, as a Korean who thinks an hour is the least you can get(is guaranteed by the law as well), was just too shocked. If I had to just eat a cold sandwich in front of my desk working on the while, I think I'll quit.
Im interested to know if Monsanto is as dominant in Europe as it is here in the U.S. The FDA is a captured government agency. Meaning it’s influenced by corporations. They restrict access to things that are healthy (vitamins, peptides) and give the green light to poisonous chemicals in our food (Red 40) but Americans are so conditioned to believe that these government agencies have our wellbeing in mind . Also, I live in Idaho and my best friends’ families own farms. They are paid by the government to send their produce to South American or China. So we have lots of local produce but the incentive is to mass produce it for the world and not on quality and local consumers
In Paris there is the catacombs or cementary, about 200 miles tunnels under the city. Maybe you could make a video about the catacombs in Paris. What do you know and what is your view of the catacombs?
Maybe there should be UA-cam channel critiquing European food. I got food poisoning in France. I will still eat the food. Plenty of delicious foods in America. I grew up eating all my meals at home. I cook every day. I’m not in the minority
Plenty of comments blaming chemicals in the food. And sure that's a problem. But that's not the bulk of the problem. And as usual Americans (and Canadians) are looking for easy fixes. None of them want to admit that our food problems are lifestyle problems. Not enough time spent cooking means much higher consumption of Ultra Processed Foods. That's easily 60-80% of the problem. Chemicals and GMOs you can worry about when McDonald's stops becoming a weekly dinner event.
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I am speaking as an American. There are too many chemicals used in food and on food in the U.S. Some produce is grown in depleted soil. People in the U.S. are addicted to processed, junk food. It's about a quick fix eaten in a rush. I appreciate the French orientation on cooking fresh food and enjoying a meal!
It's definitely easier/cheaper to find fresh food around here for sure! Thanks for watching :)
To add that the Industrial Revolution started that trend for production over quality of food. So over 200 years Americans have been exposed to that and some foods are heavily salted. Part of that was food storage and the other is Americans are addicted to salt and high sugar because they have lots of land. Just another perspective from America’s history and to its geography.
I'm speaking as a European and this video is made from the perspective of someone well off financially and does not reflect the daily life of most people.
Most living in a suburban setting, aka the masses, shop for their food in large retail chains. Just like the rest of the Western world. Most common fruits and veggies are available year round and having them sourced from far away is the norm. Yes, the Carrefours of this world also carry local specialties, as do American stores btw, but it's a sliver of what they sell.
More than 1500 chemicals, dyes, artificial aromas and so on are banned in the EU but not in the US.
A soda in the US contains around 35% more sugar than the same one in the EU
Obesity rate in the US is around 46%. It's 9.2 in France.
Let's not even talk about diabetes or heart diseases.
Life expectancy in France is more than 6 years longer than in the US.
Our ''bad'' food is still way healthier than average food in the US
FDA in the U.S. isn't doing their job
I noticed this when I went to London. SO many items here in the US contain chemicals banned overseas. But the US is about profit at all costs, and making people sick means more money for our corrupt insurance and medical industry. I'm honestly fed up with so many things here that I want to move.
yes indeed, gmo's are very dangerous
You might enjoy New Zealand or Australia
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We recently went to London and Paris and the food in Europe is so different than the USA. And by different I mean way better! The color of the egg yolks was so much darker and everything tasted so good. Our food is high with GMO products and it has so much added chemicals. Sometimes these chemicals are even labeled as heart healthy. You are so lucky to have such amazing food! I garden now and grow all my own veggies. So much better.
Yum your home-grown veggies must be so delicious!
I hate to sound so negative but as an immigrant to the USA, coming from Scandinavia - Sweden I couldn’t agree with you more. But with that being said, of course you can find eggs with deep dark yellow yolks and organic foods but you have to pay dearly for it and living in California it’s the second most expensive city in the US (I live in Los Angeles) so people here unfortunately have to sometimes sacrifice their health for less quality foods as groceries are extremely expensive.
Why would you live in California? It’s dangerous, overwhelmed with degenerates, work people, and as you said, extremely expensive. The quality of life is aweful. Consider moving to Texas, but not Austin. That city is disgusting like LA, San Francisco +++ human feces and drug addicts everywhere
Hey Lucile, I agreed with most of what you're saying. Here in California and the U.S. in general, the problem is not the access to good food, it is spending time learning to cook and cooking at home. When I started making my own coffee at home, I stopped going to Starbucks. On the rare occasion, I would go to Starbucks and I would immediately be overwhelmed by the amount sugar in the drinks. When you cook your own food, you are in control of what goes in it.
I love your take here! I made a video on eating habits and I agree with you that when you make things from scratch it's much easier to eat healthy!
Absolutely! If you eat a majority highly-processed diet ANYWHERE, you’ll feel terrible. And a lot of North Americans are addicted to highly processed, packaged foods.
My boyfriend and I try to shop local and organic according to the season.
I’m going to Paris in February. So I love to watch your videos about Paris. It’s so useful to know more about the culture!
Thank you so much! I hope you have a great trip :)
I live on the west coast of Canada. Sadly, buying at the weekly farmer's market in my neighbourhood costs twice as much as a supermarket. They have everything; cheese, baked goods, vegetables, seafood, bottled sauces and spreads, honey, pasta, chocolate, but I usually only buy one thing and give up. I'd like to commit to local food, but it's hard.
Your channel is absolutely brilliant! Really enjoy the content! 🌟
Thank you so much, this means a lot!! 😊
Listening you speaking is so easy on ears, great orator you are👍🏻
Enjoying your videos :) I’m an American who lived in Europe (Switzerland) for a long time in the 80’s and 90’s. I concur with everything you said here. One thing I do is grow my own tomatoes, and are they delicious! So, I only eat tomatoes in season…..those pink “tennis balls” you see in the grocery stores in January are technically tomatoes but I don’t bother with them. I am noticing a trend in some restaurants here (east coast US) toward more local, fresher ingredients. Watching your videos reminds me of my European life 🥺 Keep up the good work!
I got a good laugh and some warm memories when I saw that you were using a clip from Du Pain et des Idées. I was in Paris this last September for a friends gallery opening and happened to choose that bakery for my last breakfast in France. It was awesome. I would also agree, after eating a pastry in Paris (or Seoul, South Korea for that matter) things here taste gummy and unsatisfying.
Lucile, as an explanatory note (and I suspect Bobby has told you this), Americans and Canadians often work very long hours and have very long commutes to and from work. This, in addition to the fact that North America doesn't really have a general "cooking culture", results in less time in the kitchen and more consumption of "prepared" food.
We do have regional cooking cultures. I suspect that you are not from a BBQ area. 😊. It takes hours if you do it right.
As a single American living in a rural America I eat the same thing everyday 3 times a day. It’s literally just grass fed ground beef cooked in grass fed butter with pink salt and jasmine white rice on the side and a few glasses of cream top Grassfed milk. It cost’s me $700 a month just to eat these basic things and I have to drive 45min there and back just to get milk so there’s gas involved too. I want to move to Europe so I could potentially try bread and fruits and vegetables again to see if I can tolerate it
Yum, grassfed beed and milk seem delicious!
Lucile, thank you for your perspective on healthy eating. I actually think that the obesity problem in the US is caused by malnutrition. In other words, we have fat, starving people out there. We overeat to compensate for the food that doesn't nourish us and poisons us. I have followed many videos about nutrition and you gave us such valuable information.
Hi, I’m German and I really love France and French food. You’re absolutely right about the freshness and tastiness there but I am happy with ours here, too. We have so much organic food and it seems a bit easier to find vegetarian or even vegan options over here. But this is probably also easier in Paris and other bigger cities than in the smaller ones. Anyway- great video AGAIN! Thank you for always sharing your thoughts and showing up on UA-cam. Love it! ☺️🙏🏼💕
Yes, German food is very high quality too!! And you're absolutely right, it's easier to find vegan options than in France. Thank you so much for watching and leaving a comment 😊
Food is great in Germany too for sure. Just like in any European country. When it comes to cuisine, i'd rather go to France or Italy though tbh. No offense, sorry. 😂❤
I just watched a video of a guy in Paris and there were military walking around everywhere with semi-automatic machine guns. Why is this?
@ 😂 non taken! I also wish we had more French restaurants over here but at least we have tons of Italian food and most of our home cooked meals is quite Mediterranean influenced nowadays. Thank god. 😂😜
In France, food is produced for the people. In America, most food is made for the profit of corporations
The one thing that really shocks me about France (incl. Paris), is that all the food, wine, produce is incredible...but the coffee is so average. And I absolutely don't mean Starbucks (that's not coffee!). I mean a rich roast, nuanced aroma, balanced acidity, layered flavor profile, body, finish etc. I've lived in so many places around the world - from Denmark to Australia to Italy (and beyond), and I'm a bit sad not to be able to find an equivalent level here. I love our cafés though. If only we could care as much about making our coffees as we do about our wine!
Italians are the ones who've really figured coffee out. 😭
@Even Greece, Turkey, Austria all have great coffee, and rather consistently so.
@@almondmilksodaAnd Australians.
90% of the food in our supermarkets are processed foods, seed oils, and high in sugars. We have to pay more for our government not to delete us
90%?? wow!
Hello Lucille, you are absolutely right. A long time ago I went to Italy and I love the food really outside of my country. In the states I try to stay with fresh ingredients and stay away from ultra processed food. In Italy, the foos was so much better and the state sucked unless we cook from fresh ingredients. Thank you so much we need more voices like yours. 😊
J'ai appris que si dans la composition d'un aliment il y a plus de 3 choses que tu ne connais pas, alors il ne faut pas le manger.
Merci Lucile pour cette vidéo si intéressante ❤
Every time I’m in Paris I’m enjoying French food, even going to Monoprix is a journey
I love bringing my friends to Monoprix when they visit :) Thanks for watching!
I grew up on a cattle ranch and was surprised, after leaving home, that store bought beef tastes as bad as it does. (I was also shocked to find out how expensive it was.)
What shouldn’t be a surprise to anyone is that the “food pyramid” that we used to fatten cattle is THE EXACT SAME ONE that the government promotes as being healthy! I work in the healthcare industry, so I’m quite familiar with how the general public suffers from healthcare illiteracy, but am surprised at how people don’t make the connection about those food pyramids…
Love your channel! Keep up the good work!
@@TheBillyBowlegs the food pyramid is a hoax which has fattened the pockets of big food and big pharma
Shopping at local farmers markets is a good way ot get fresh veggies. Problem is there are not many farmers markets in many areas.. Yes processed food is bad for you.
Too much salt oil(fat) and salt...
Great vid btw...thanks!!
At the town(St. Hippolyte du Fort) which I have gone to often has an open air market every Tuesday and Saturday. The local farmer who sells mostly vegetables always has a line of locals to buy his food. Always! By far the most popular!!!
Ohhh I love this!
As a German I do absolutely agree with you. I could never live in the U.S. - because of the unhealthy food. I love too cook daily. Vive les jeunes femmes françaises qui savent encore cuisiner! (Btw: I visited France last summer Paris and Normandie. Wonderful!).
Having lived in the US, there's definitely great food there, but it's a bit harder to find than here in Europe for sure! And so nice! I hope you had a great trip :)
We don't even know what's in our food anymore, here in the US. 😢😢😢
I know!! It's so easy to buy the wrong products I feel!
We can know if we want. The producer is required to list it. We choose not to read the label.
Lucile, I have been to France and Italy three times since 2022 and will go again in the spring of 2025. I go for many reasons--but eating well is one of the top reasons. And eating well--quality and fresh ingredients, prepared by people who care, and served to people who expect good food--make is extremely difficult to come back to the US.
Lucile, you're doing such a great job with these. Thank you!
Thank you so much!!
I mainly eat whole foods here in the US and use the FlavCity app on processed foods, which scans the SKU and gives it a thumbs up or down and the reason. At 63, I'm healthy and only weigh 5lbs more than I did in my early 40's when I was sporting a 32" waist.
Oh yes, I love this type of apps!!
I've heard it said "America is a business, not a country" True: everything here is about profit
For profit healthcare
For profit education
For profit prisons
For profit child protective service ...
The US is a dystopian ecploitative nightmare that indoctrinated submissive uneducated people entorse, Stockholm syndrome style
So much truth. I never ate as well as I did in France. Flavor! I’m American, and I cook 20-21 meals a week. ALL of my meals except maybe one meal. But I am not the norm.
I enjoy your videos and have learned a lot from them! The chocolate peanut butter candy you got in the US are called "Buckeyes" because they look like the very large nuts from Buckeye trees, which used to be common in Ohio (where I live). The origin of the name is disputed--maybe the eye of a deer (a male deer is called a buck). The Buckeye is the symbol of Ohio State University and the football team (very important to Americans) are called The Buckeyes. The real Buckeye nut is poisonous, so a home made candy was invented by ladies in Ohio to look like buckeyes. Many people still make it themselves and the ingredients are basic and don't have chemicals. But it became so popular that now several commercial candy companies make a version with preservatives, etc.
Thank you so much for the backstory, so fun! We were in Ohio when we ate it and I actually really loved this candy! Peanut butter and chocolate are just perfect together!
'If it rains tomorrow, we will have Xorta!' Heard in my local Greek eatery. The chef there actually talked me out of having a tomato salad, because the tomatoes tomorrow would be even better! When they are that good, he suggest not to use olive oil as that will mask their flavour. American corporations have never mind poisoning their own countrymen to make money. That's also reinforced by supermarket chains. In Greece you can't sell tangerines, celery and other things without the leaves on them to indicate their freshness. In the UK, which tragically followed the US slavishly with additives and factory farming, I had never seen celery without the leaves cut off, and a tangerine with a leaf, for the obverse reason. Incidentally, you have Charles de Gaulle to thank for so many small bakeries and the freshness of bread in France which, in terms of patisserie, is still a shining example to the world.
I grew up in the Midwestern part of the USA. Now, admittedly, my mother is a terrible cook. I was in 11th grade when I found out that you can MAKE SOUP. If only ever seen it in a can at home. My friend’s mom made homemade soup once when I was visiting. I was flabbergasted. I’m obsessed with making all of my food from scratch now. It’s appalling the food that I was fed as a child. I’m a physician now, and I see these eating patterns in my patients. Americans don’t know what is healthy any longer, as a whole.
We went to London and Paris in June and found the food to be so much better there. Especially in Paris.
We WANT to have higher standards in the US, but everything is $$$. We love eating in Europe and especially in FRANCE. You guys totally WIN!
Grew up in Northern California, lived in South Korea for several years, and now an immigrant to France, going on 4 years now. Never had these issues you mention. I lost and maintained weight in California, weight fluctuated in Korea, gained weight in France. Some of it was health and fitness level reasons and mental health reasons, but as for actual food, I never really noticed a difference between all the areas I've lived, but I rarely eat processed food except as a treat once in a while, and mostly cook at home, but I grew up in a region where the variety of food is extremely diverse produce-wise and culturally-wise, my stomach can tolerate a wide variety so I never had issues when I went abroad. Are there legit issues wuth a majority of food products in the US?, I'm not gonna deny that, but junk food exists everywhere. For me, I make the exact same food choices no matter where I go and I've usually never had issues, when I do have issues and my digestion is involved, I know for a fact that my mental health is probably not in a good place. If I had to be completely honest though and admit sonething, the times I don't have as much control over what I eat and I will have major digestive problems is when I'm spending at least a week or more with just French people not in charge of the menu, I will actually get sick, maybe it's just the people in my bubble, but I know a lot of French people, and I find their diet not varied enough for me, not enough veggies (whole veggies you have to chew), not enough fiber, and just as a personal annoyance with my bubble of people not enough flavor, lol, I like complex flavor profiles, while most of my French people are "allergic" to most of it (my Thanksgiving menu was extremely boring this year, lol, only flavor agent allowed this year was salt, nothing else). I almost never had these issues in Korea, I felt the variety of the food I ate even when I didn't have a choice of options (like at work).
This whole thing makes me think of something a French friend said to me once, this friend had a colleague from India that moved to the US for work, gained weight, blamed it of the rice saying that sugar was added to the rice in the US, the French friend insisted this was an issue in the US, asked if Indian friend was cooking mostly at home, French friend said yes, and mostly buying products they were familiar with, yes, was he adding sugar to his rice then, no, so youre saying they coated dried rice in sugar, yes, are you sure.............are you sure your Indian friend read the nutrition label and not the ingredient label?.................because you know rice is a carbohydrate, it hase sugar in it naturally, in the US they are required by law to list the amount..............it's the same in France by the way............(if you're wondering, all the dots are my French friend without an answer). Moving to a new country on your own and for the first time is stressfull, trust me, I've done it twice.
I found the “food desert” concept so odd when I heard about it. It’s obviously a different culture because us, East Euros would grow something on every square meter of our yards if we didn’t have stores in the area (and even when we do). In America though, people seed lawns everywhere instead of gardening. I think it’s because people in the US haven’t been confronted with food shortages since probably WW2.
Love your video! We mostly cook at home because US processed food is so bad! I bake my own artisan bread. My dream is to live in Paris, been there twice! The serving sizes are a suggestion for a healthy amount, but saying you should not eat more than 2 T of peanut butter. Our country is so confused about health!
I was so shocked at the quality of the food when visiting the West coast.😱 We once went to a fancier place (it was pretty expensive) and the food and surroundings (linen, proper cutlery) was what we know from normal affordable places in Europe. We travelled to Asia the year after and our kids still talk about eating really well in Thailand and not well at all in the US.😜
It's true that fancy restaurants are pretty cheap in France in comparison!
@@LucileHR Yes and they tend to find restaurants "fancy" just because they use real plates and cutlery.😜
Please make the video on banned foods!
Love your videos!!! Always so helpful. My time in Paris was amazing. I ate sooo many carb but didn't gain a pound! I was so shocked. I also walked wayyy more while in Paris. I am curious to know the app you used to see the harmful ingredients in food! I need that in my life!!
Thank you so much for watching :) The app is called Yuka (not sponsored, I just like this app!) ! It works for beauty products too!
Basically the ingredient label should read like a recipe from a cookbook, not like a chemistry exam. Peanut butter is a good example because the "clean" version of peanut butter is 2-3 ingredients whereas you can find some brands that list over 15.😱
Yes, totally agree with you, some things shouldn't be there in peanut butter haha
When I lived it Spain the food was so good and fresh, even in the uk I notice the difference in tomatoes. But way shops are going in the UK I feel we are moving more towards high processed foods like in the US.
I am so glad that you mentioned Trader Joe's. For many of us, this is the closest that we will ever get to the high food standards that are in France and other parts of Europe. They don't use any artificial or fake ingredients in any of their foods, and they have a dedicated tasting panel.
Many times, their products can through several months to, in some cases, multiple years before it ever makes it to the shelf.
They also travel the world looking for unique ingredients.
They recently came out with an organic baguette, and they get them in daily. They are absolutely delicious and a must try
the next time you are in one! It's the ONLY one that I would recommend to you!
They are very close to my heart.
I could speak for hours about how much I love Trader Joes, so I'm happy to find another fan in the comments haha I don't know their organic baguette but I've had their fresh focaccia so many times and I also love their fresh bagels too!
I get only get my groceries from Trader Joe’s. I love the food there!
I am in an expensive food oasis. I used to love Trader Joe's but have become cautious when there. I learned of diseases (such as listeria) in certain offerings, sloppy standards for packaged/sliced fresh fruits, questionable terms such as "wild caught" salmon, over-sugaring of basics such as bagels (as Lucile discovered), etc. I used to love Whole Foods but standards have declined a lot including service (that used to be as good as Trader Joe's). On the other hand, I have beeen going to the nearest weekly farmers market for 30 years (since it began) and it has always cost at least 2x, 4x more than as any supermarket and attracts throngs of smartly dressed clientele. Good quality ingredients are very expensive in the US. I hope Lucille reports on food in Tokyo now (where food is a bargain and there are direct flights from Paris).
Excellent video
Just came back from France and I totally agree! We have so much junk and preservatives! I felt much better in France.
Lucile: "Why French Food is Better Than Yours"
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As an American I can tell you I stayed at home to raise my children and cooked homemade meals daily. I did the same as my mother and grandmother did.
The Genetically modified food had its start after WW2 in the US and is being fed to many, with most of the population being ignorant of this. Research history and how a country can be conquered through food, causing obesity and sickness, then selling prescription drugs to mask the symptoms. Eventually, operations may be required, then more money is to be made on the people until death comes.
In order to get good food here in grocery stores, organic has been required. But now they are starting to even mess with organic food. For instance putting a toxic substance on apples and other fresh fruit and vegetables called Apeel coating to preserve them longer.
People are worked to death in this country just trying to survive eating toxic foods, and they don’t know it. However, they are waking up.
Our skies are being sprayed with chemtrails, depleting the soil. Many are starting to grow indoors or outside greenhouses.
The weather is also manipulated. Research HAARP Weather Control.
Research what President Lyndon B. Johnson said in the 1965, “He who controls the weather will control the world.”
May God help us!
French food is high quality because French farmers are paid to over produce from the EU Common Agricultural Policy. This means that only the best quality food reaches the supermarket. The lower quality food is discarded. But it does mean the consumer has to pay higher prices than they would if French farmers were less subsidised and more competitive. There are 750,000 French farmers, which results in small inefficient farming compared to other countries. They wouldn't survive without EU subsidies. They are also protected from cheaper overseas competition. Fewer preservatives mean the food is fresher but has a shorter storage life. Food with more preservatives has a longer storage life. Sugar and salt behave as preservatives. Drying, freezing, canning and pickling are other methods of preserving food. This is more necessary in the USA because of the much longer distances between the farms and the cities. Paris is surrounded by farmland. NYC and LA are not.
Bon appetite.
Merci !
There are still some of us Americans that don't eat fast food, only prepare meals from scratch at home, shop seasonally at farmer's markets or forage (blackberries, etc) ourselves. But yes, our FDA is a joke to allow poisonous preservatives in our foods. They are all about quantity instead of quality. Ridiculous. I would love to live elsewhere! P.S. When I watch UA-cam videos, I pretty much only watch people that live in other countries for ideas of different meals and ideas on lifestyle and skincare products. Thank you!
Food in America is really bad but I think people are becoming more aware so they're trying to make better choices! Specially in the NY area!
Bonjour Lucile. Merci pour votre video sur la génial cuisines française.
Merci :)
Hi Lucille, enjoying your videos, thank you...What is the app you used to check for harmful ingredients?
Thank you for watching! It's Yuka (not sponsored, I just like this app!) ! It works for beauty products too!
I agree that the quality of food in Europe is much better than in US
Picard is a life saver 🙏
I would love ❤️ to try out some French food, but I can't get enough of the British food here in London, England 🏴 which tastes so bloody delicious 😋 I appreciate your content, Lucile! Did you check out the new Notre Dame Cathedral yet? 🤔
The food scene in London is awesome! And not yet, but I want to go very soon!!
I am coming to Paris from Canada in April taking my friend told her when you get to France the food is gonna be heavenly. We just have terrible culture in North America we also don’t walk as much
Turkish foods so delicious for me but they are so expensive outdoor. So I cooked my home them
Great video: BANNED FOODS.
Taking note of that :)
The UK is the same, the food made me seriously ill. I moved to my wife's country and feel so much healthier.
Omg that breakfast was so good 😋
It was!! Still dreaming about these homegrown tomatoes
Food in Southeast and East Asia is even BETTER!
French and other EU countries understand and believe in eating experience with ambiance.
It is about spending a quality time with your family, work mates, and friends. (even if you are eating alone..)
Such things can't be rushed, it requires relaxed moments to take in the enjoyment.
And wonderful food with glass of your favorite drink to enhance your experience.
No rush, just enjoy.. 😛
love this!
This is exactly why I try to eat “real” food and nothing packaged. But that’s not always possible
It’s not just France. It’s almost every country I have visited outside the US.
Part of it is the “food pyramid”, high fructose corn syrup and the insane amount of poisonous additives in our country
Awesome job Lucia drop a like for you
According to the US legislation, you need to list all, and I mean all the ingredients inside the product. I don’t know about EU.
You just smashed some American dreams here!
I wish people in the U.S. would invest in ourselves. Yes the food is amazing in European countries and there are definitely awesome places to find great food in the U.S. but a lot of our food is so bad for us.
My French mother always said: “Il faut manger pour vivre et non vivre pour manger!” [You must eat to live, not live to eat!] When I was a kid, and later a teenager in France, there were no supermarkets, even just 10 minutes from Paris by train. Everything was fresh as could be-there’s just no comparison. Ok, I think the truth must lie somewhere in the middle!
Now I’ve been living in the Netherlands for a long time, and people here are also trying to eat as fresh as possible. You also see that a large part of the population is, or is becoming, vegetarian.
The only things I really miss from France are the simple things: les baguettes croustillantes and un bon steak frites. And, sorry, but I also miss a few processed condiments, like, for example, la mayonnaise à la moutarde d’Amora! So delicious!
I’ve tried making it myself many times, but I just can’t recreate the original taste!
After being able to find raw ground meat as a snack at a Netherlands Aldi - i read up on food safety. And I think most of Europe - you have to prove additives or whatever aren't harmful to people, that they are safe. In US it is opposite - you have to prove the opposite - that things are actually harmful. And for some stuff - like processed foods - that would take a long time. So... US has so much random stuff in food. And I think US never developed a strong cooking from scratch culture because it's a young country. So microwave dinners and ultra processed - was just part of life. Not sure if you saw how many recalls US has had recently...
Statistics speak clearly:
In the United States, approximately 42.87% of American adults are considered obese, with a Body Mass Index (BMI) over 30.
While in France, it is significantly lower, at 10.92%.
The food pyramid used to teach children how to eat healthy is the same one that we used to fatten cattle.
The government does not want you to be healthy past retirement age. That would enable you to recoup some of your social security “investment”.
Latin americans are very social with their dining as well. We cook meals everyday
Yes, they were well classified in the chart for cooking at home.
@ and its made with real fruits and veggies and grains and other ingredients as
Well. No high fructose corn syrup or cheese like prodcts. Americans eat fake synthetic food .
Your Trader Joe bagel is gluten free. they have to compensate for that with sugar.
Do you know about Les Grands Buffets in Narbonne? That would make quite a video.
I buy pasta that ONLY comes from Italy. Italy uses their heritage grains for pasta and Italy does not use glyphosate.
@@pamelabbartol978 Careful about those origin labels in the US. Often it’s not entirely accurate.
_"...obviously to read the list of ingredients but I feel it's just so complicated when there's so many of them."_
That's the sign, actually. If a product has a lot of ingredients, don't eat it. If it has only a few, you are usually OK.
_"...most of these are hidden additives."_
They're not hidden, though - they're listed in the ingredient list. Again, the rule of thumb is, if there are more ingredients than you believe there should be, put it back.
I agree with you!!
The food in the United States is disgusting in general compared to what’s commonly available in Europe. Your arguments are valid.
France has the Patisserie, the UK has Greggs
Punjabi deli! How in the world did you find that one? That's been a reliable neighborhood dinner spot for decades.
Yes but in that 1hr and 2 minutes we are eating 4x as much as you! So technically we are number one at eating food! I'm sure you saw evidence of this on your trip to NYC :P
yes, i believe in the US they don't ban food additives until they're proven bad for you ...Here in Europe they need to know they're safe BEFORE they approve them....i live in the UK where the food culture is closer to that of the US than to France's but the food is nowhere near as ''plastic'' as it is in the US ....
The fruit we import from the US is terrible, strawberries, blueberries are sour, tomatoes are mealy. It's so disappointing. The salad greens go bad before the expiration date.
I laughed so hard to see what grade Korea got on the statistics you brought😂 I get the impression people from America just don't care that much about good food. My sister lives in Canada, and she told me that getting an hour of lunch break is not just that common in North America. And I, as a Korean who thinks an hour is the least you can get(is guaranteed by the law as well), was just too shocked. If I had to just eat a cold sandwich in front of my desk working on the while, I think I'll quit.
I am just like you eating a bad sandwich at my desk would make me become depressed.
Most americans say they lose weight in europe even though they eat more
Im interested to know if Monsanto is as
dominant in Europe as it is here in the U.S. The FDA is a captured government agency. Meaning it’s influenced by corporations. They restrict access to things that are healthy (vitamins, peptides) and give the green light to poisonous chemicals in our food (Red 40) but Americans are so conditioned to believe that these government agencies have our wellbeing in mind . Also, I live in Idaho and my best friends’ families own farms. They are paid by the government to send their produce to South American or China. So we have lots of local produce but the incentive is to mass produce it for the world and not on quality and local consumers
But of course French food is better than North American food but Hungarian food I will argue thank you another good video thank you
In Paris there is the catacombs or cementary, about 200 miles tunnels under the city. Maybe you could make a video about the catacombs in Paris. What do you know and what is your view of the catacombs?
I have never been, I know there's some secret parties there but I'm not invited haha
Maybe there should be UA-cam channel critiquing European food. I got food poisoning in France. I will still eat the food. Plenty of delicious foods in America. I grew up eating all my meals at home. I cook every day. I’m not in the minority
Plenty of comments blaming chemicals in the food. And sure that's a problem. But that's not the bulk of the problem. And as usual Americans (and Canadians) are looking for easy fixes.
None of them want to admit that our food problems are lifestyle problems. Not enough time spent cooking means much higher consumption of Ultra Processed Foods. That's easily 60-80% of the problem. Chemicals and GMOs you can worry about when McDonald's stops becoming a weekly dinner event.
Holy... we eat like lightning in Vietnam so we can have time to work
I still prefer Japanese food (probably because I live in Japan tho).
hi lucile, can you name the app you use to scan product's ingredients?
Yes, it's Yuka (not sponsored, I just like this app!) ! It works for beauty products too!
@@LucileHR thanks
France has more McDonalds per capita than than the US.
9:00 Love Trader Joes. I go there daily.
Butter.
It's butter, right?
French bread are hard as a rock…no thanks. I like my bread soft and fresh and hot out of the oven