American Reacts to US Foods that are BANNED in the UK
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As an American I am aware of the negative stigma our food gets, and for good reason. Today I am very interested to learn about American foods that are actually banned in the UK. If you enjoyed the video feel free to leave a comment, like, or subscribe for more!
After several reactions to varying food and consumer goods regulations, between the EU, UK, Canada, and the US, one rule now must be obvious. In other countries, the order of priority has consumer health and safety on the top. In the US, it's corporate profits and lobby group interests which come first.
That, and THe EU/UK runs on the basis 'prove it's safe to put it in food' and the US on 'Prove it's Unsafe to get it removed.'
That’s obvious, just look at the health care it’s all for profit and not about the well being of their citizens
@@Molikai Yeah, I was going to mention in an Evan Edinger video on banned food US vs UK/EU, he stated as much.
Thank you Molikai that's absolutely correct for both the UK and US @@Molikai
Tell that to the people that got CJD.
It appears to me that the FDA is supporting the American health industry by providing more customers.
That's probably what's going on, the health industry lobbies the food industry to lower standards, both lobby the government to get the right regulations in place, the food industry benefits by lower cost and higher profits, and the health industry benefits by more customers coming through the door with getting sick, what makes the system work like a treat is that most Americans won't go to seek medical help until they are almost dying, which is when it's a lot more expensive.
It's a nice system for the corporate world, but it's a poor system for the American people, as it's exploiting them.
The funny thing is, when you look at US democracy, it looks quite weak from the outside, you've got first past the post, you've only got two credible parties that more or less deliver the same thing, whiles trying to put a public image of being different from each other, and then you've got a system of almost pure capitalism that is trading in democracy for corporations to rule, which more or less rule like mini dictators.
Say what we want about the EU, but at least they see the threat from big corporations and are clamping down on them, but honestly, I think a lot more needs to be done even over what the EU is doing, but at least the EU is doing something unlike the US which seems to get walked all over by the corporate world.
Exactly. Remember, the Pharmaceutical industry is a Business. It's main interest is making money and keeping its 'customers' (you) coming back for more. Same in the UK but probably worse in the US.
Food industry has shares in the health industry, the heath industry has shares in the weapons industry and the weapons industry has shares in the food industry. All of them give money to those in congress
FDA executive generally rotates through senior pharma industry personnel.
Tyler……American milk for one is banned in over 160 countries and Canada as well.
it is banned in 30 countries
When Subway opened in the UK and tried to use their American bread, they were not allowed - it was banned. The reason? American bread contains so much sugar it would have had to be sold as cake in this country.
that was the Republic of Ireland
@@Vyperus69ya and some parts of Ireland is part of the uk
@@Freddo.Teags. only Northern Ireland, which is a different country to Ireland. also N. Ireland, like the rest of the UK, isn't in the EU while Ireland (otherwise known as Republic of Ireland or Eire) is in the EU
The food in the US is genuinely one of the biggest factors that deters me from visiting.
American food tastes really good but its all chemicals a d really bad for you. It's ok for a visit but eating it every day over a lifetime is really bad.
@@urbanshadow777I imagine some of it tastes good with all those artificial flavourings etc.
But years ago I had an American friend send me over a box of American snacks, and I sent him some British ones.
I was excited to try twinkies for the first time. I grew up in the 1980’s with them being mentioned in movies like Ghostbusters. There was Koolaid, original Mountain Dew (that’s banned here), taffy etc.
Most of them weren’t very nice. Particularly the drinks which tasted very artificial and sour, and left a strange phlegmy stuff in the back of the throat.
I like things like sour patch kids that are sold in the UK. But they’re manufactured by Maynard’s who make wine gums and use a different recipe.
You can't even take your own supply of haggis with you!
@@williamdom3814 Exactly! Shame. Haggis is great.
If you ever go, PLEASE avoid the fruit by all means necessary! Take my advice 😂😂😂
People in the UK who know about this don't feel good, from my experience, the ones who know about it tend to be annoyed that Americans are being poisoned.
Anyone else over here think we should just import Tyler to the U.K.?
It would save him the bother of importing his food and he could do his reaction videos as he reacts to life over here himself 😊
He looked genuinely shocked about the food in the USA.
Haha, he does seem like a genuinely nice fella! Thumbs up from me.
Talk about a fish out of water being in the UK.😂. Would be funny, but I don't think he'd do it. He'll live & die in that chair, he needs to diversify and reply to people.
Just wait till America starts adding Soylent Green to their sodas, they'll love it!😂
Check out the difference between French fries ingredients purchased at McDonalds in the UK and McDonalds in the US. You might think it would be like for like. The UK version contains just three: potato, vegetable oil, and salt. The US fries contain a whole host of ingredients (19 in total) some of which are banned in the UK and EU.
Nineteen?!
I'm scared to go look them up.
I swear there were like a bunch of banned food colourings in the American French fries. Like they're risking people's health so the fries look slightly more yellow 😢
Actually scary.
MacDonalds also does business in China.
Also different than in the USA.
19?! It's a flipping fry! Why would there need to be 19 ingredients? It's not like a mix of spices or anything!
The flour thing we noticed when that danish guy started his danish bakery chain in New York 10+ years ago.. He said he had to import everything needed to bake bread and pastry with, as he found the US stuff inferior or even bad and unusable to consume. He couldn't let people eat that he said.. So its all sent from Denmark even the butter.
You are making my mouth water ..bet his stuff tastes great
@@sharonwelsh8102 well the line outside was insane and the Americans was crazy about the shop. But i was shocked to hear he had several shops already..
This is why americans dont like our food and say its bland because we ban many food colouring, additives and preservatives. Also many everyday food in America, like bread have triple the amount of sugar in it
@C24680 Never mind triple amount of sugar in their bread, try five, or even six times.🤢 Also, I wouldn't say our adopted National dish, as in Chicken Tika Masala, is bland in taste, exactly how spicy and tasty do you want your food. Natural flavoUrings and preservatives are much safer, but they don't cause anywhere near enough serioUs illness to satisfy the US greedy, un-caring health people.
They do add things to UK flour though, Calcium, Iron, Niacin & Thiamin. That's it and they are added purely to address possible deficiencies of needed minerals 'if you're gonna eat cake we're darned well gonna make it better for you, so take that'.
Folic acid is also added quite frequently too these days. I think it started a few years ago, as its a requirement for pregnant women and its health benefits. Which I have no problem with.
I'm from Scotland (in the UK) and I remember I loved Sunny D as a kid. Then there was an incident where a girl turned orange due to the colour additives. It disappeared from shelves in the UK but I was surprised while travelling recently in Guam - a US overseas territory - to see it proudly displayed on every supermarket shelf. I didn't buy any - even for nostalgic reasons - not worth turning into an Oompa Loompa. 😂😂
Like with mountain dew, sunny d is back on shelves in the uk, but with a healthy (by junk food standards) recipe to pass our food safety regs.
Yeah, I remember drinking sunny D in the early to mid 90's, but it disappeared so fast!
I remember the Sunny D issue and their advertisements promoting it as a healthy drink.
It was the beta-carotene in the drink which turned her skin orange due to the excessive amounts she drank. The same thing can happen with carrot juice, the effect is not permanent.
I love the way you feel you have to explain to foreign readers that Scotland is in the UK!
Not just a health reason but people care about animals having a good quality of life before they enter the food chain. I want my chicken and eggs to have had access to outside and free range. Same with pigs farm grown meat not in a tiny cage they can’t stand in with legs so weak due to drugs.
From everything I hear about the cost of living in the USA along with the health costs, the education costs, food standards and the sheer amount of violent crime that is famous around it seems that the best thing any American can do to protect themselves and their family is to move abroad.
Also, away from the overwhelming ignorant.
In France and EU, a lot of foods from USA are prohibited to much sugar, saturated oil, OGM, hormones, but also chemicals, etc.
In the U.K. we use alternative food colouring either a natural dye or not linked to causing cancer
Red food die or carmine in the uk is made from crushed up beetles, if you’ve eaten sweets, yogurts, red velvet cake etc you’ve been eating bugs
@@cuttinaboot which are harmless, you forgot to say.
@@cuttinaboot what's wrong with eating bugs?
@@cuttinaboot Which is literally fine to eat? It does seem a bit disgusting if you think about it too much but I’d rather eat bugs than something that causes cancer
@@cuttinabootCarmine for the red is used mostly in food colouring, but more and more (depending on the product) its things like beetroot and carrot.
What's in our flour? Flour, that's it! Flour was discovered in a pyramid, it was 5000 years old. They made bread with it and it tasted good with no after effects. Doesn't that tell you what should be added to flour?
All about money. How much can they "water" down everything before the consumer notices. It doesn't matter that a small amount of the crap they use kills you
Well they do add Calcium, Iron, Niacin & Thiamin but that's just to address deficiencies of needed minerals in the population.
I'll put it into very few words here. The USA looks at profit first, then safety last. The EU and UK (and The WHO) look at safety first, then profit last.
Not just the U.k but European. I know of Americans who don't eat wheat because they've reacted so badly to it. They went to Italy and ate pasta without thinking about it and had no issues. I heard someone complaining that french bread bought that morning had already gone really stale. They were shocked when I pointed out it was because it had no preservatives and it's how bread is supposed to be.
The FDA is far too cosy with the food and drinks industry…
Also, it's the food and DRUG ADMINISTRATION. To the point *workers* there have been known to incorrectly call it the 'Fedral Drug Administration'.
It's well known that the US FDA's primary function is to make life easy for food manufacturers. Real food safety standards are an inconvenience which the FDA help the producers overcome - e.g. there is now no legal obligation for manufacturers to use just natural ingredients in a product labelled "Made with Natural Ingredients".
Every which way you look, from labor laws and public healthcare, to food standards, the USA is only about business, at the expense of its' own people. The money-machine that is the USA has 360 million cogs whirring around, running on the cheapest, most convenient fuel possible - and it kinda makes sense, from the top looking down.
Potassium Bromate is used in the production of yoga mats.
It is used in bread in the US to strengthen the dough and help allow the bread to rise more.
The food colouring behavioural issues are real and a problem. It runs in my family and we all went a bit crazy when we ingested the wrong E numbers. This was a huge thing in the 1990s in the UK, all over the news, so they created some strong rules around it
My daughter suffers when she has anything with E numbers.
Sunny D comes to mind when I hear about e numbers and behaviour x
Actually this goes with Norway too. Not only UK there’s loads of things that banned
160 countries ban american pork, american beef and the brominated vegitable oil.
I've had to share this on my Facebook and encourage for people to also share it. America needs to know about it my friend
I am REALLY glad we don't have fire retardant and yoga mat in our food.
They will have a hell of a job cremating you from eating the fire retardant, but at least they will be able to fold you into a box from the yoga mats...
Yeah, foods that are "unfit for human combustion".
“There’s very little meat in these gym mats.”
…Simpsons reference
Make American food unhealthy.
More people suffer from medical issues.
The more medical issues there are.
The more money insurers and medical companies will make.
It’s quiet obvious that’s what is happening in America 😉
That what I’m thinking food industry and medical insurance/ institutions all involved to make USA citizens ill for profit
The ultimate capitalism
Most noticeable mental illness.
And since America regards the idea of free healthcare (or technically paid by our taxes but never on-the-door payment so to speak) as some sort of disgusting evil, it gives even more opportunity for profit. Quite ironic for a country that brags about how Christian it is.
Unfortunately the dollar is King. What a terrible situation to be in. Greed matters more than the American people. I bet the bosses of the companies which make these products don't eat them.
Never forget the simple fact, that the sworn creed of the USA always was and still is:
Profit, Profit Über Alles, Über Alles In Der Welt......
The difference in food quality and taste is always very interesting. I live in Canada and when we travel just a few hours south, I literally become ill from the food. Even the meat is the wrong colour!
We in UK are advised to check the ingredients. If there are more than 3/4 listed, they are Ultra Processed and should be avoided or only bought occasionally. I try to buy Organic and try to use local shops if possible, but it is much more expensive.
I guess when the treatment of sick people falls on the public purse instead of private insurance the Government has an incentive to make sure people are as healthy as they can reasonably be, which, for the most part, is a brilliant secondary consequence of having an NHS.
Excellent point!
Well said!
We have a lot of those brands over here, just without the banned ingredients and generally cheaper than the US version! Across all the ingredients, not just the BVO.
One must therefore ask what is going on with the US versions
The US version of Mountain Dew not only has BVO but also contains the artificial colourant E5 which is a petroleum based dye which has the links to hyperactivity and cancer.
The UK version of Mountain Dew is more similar to the original recipe which doesn't contain BVO and is given it's colour by adding beta carotene which is a dye that occurs naturally in things such as carrots.
Dairy cows are grass fed but in us they're grain fed so our milk is healthier too and our butter is yellow because of it!
Hormones in pigs can make pigs unable to stand but it's still meat in US so it's okay
Yes the recipes for Mountain Dew, Pepsi, coke, Fanta orange among others are different in Europe & UK.
I remember watching a documentary on Chocolate through time and around the 1960s? 1980s? They had an advertisement campaign with Smarties where they had to take the blue smartie out because it was made with artificial colouring and then they added it back because they found a Natural colouring in Seaweed
I am Canadian and I find it really strange that americans want to super size their poison because food tastes so much better than the same product in Canada. What finish do you want on your casket?
Having seen a number of these videos about US foods banned in the UK and the EU I and others are amazed that your Government allows such crap to be put into your foods. What the hell is your FDA doing for goodness sake? Nothing by the looks of it. 😠
Tyler, we in the UK (and the EU) have our fair share of lobbying national and transnational Corporations. We have our fair share of vested interests, and conflicts of interest in politicians. However, I am glad we have some regulation of foodstuffs. Also, we have better chocolate 🙂.
The FDA also has regulations that specify the amount of fly larvae, animal hair, rodent droppings, dead insects, etc, that are allowed in specific food types. We don't have regulations for this in the uk and Europe because the amount permitted is zero.
They also have a level of feces (shit) present in food that's deemed acceptable in the US. I heard that on another UA-cam video and didn't quote believe ot so had to look it up, and it's actually true.
When is there ever a level of shit in food that's acceptable? Pmsl.
Really insightful! I'm British, would love more videos on Nutrition or food comparisons! So interesting and kinda scary 😅😂
Look up the one about UK vs US McDonalds. Their fries recipe alone will leave you in disbelief. In the UK there's 3 ingredients in their fries, in the US there are 19 INGREDIENTS IN THEIR FRIES! 19! I means wtf! All you need are potatoes oil and salt. Buy no, the US add 16 more ingredients ontop of that to their McDonalds fries. Its mind blowing! Lol
Somehow its entertaining watching the world crumble around you, keep it up!
Poor Tyler...🇺🇸 🥺😐🤔 ... he'll be dieting (for a day or two) after this video, probably.. 😏🇺🇸😶🇬🇧🤔🙂🧡🖖
I've travelled extensively in the US and when I was first there I thought I'd try a couple of cheese burgers and chips (fries) expecting it to be better than in the UK, since that's where it originated. I went to MacDonalds really looking forward to the experience, boy was I disappointed! It was horrible couldn't finish it.
Watch a video here on UA-cam about ingredients in McDonalds UK vs US.
The fries in the UK have justv3 ingredients, potato's, oil and salt. The fries in the US have 19 different ingredients. 19!!!! Just for fries! Like wtf!?! 19 ingredients for fries! It's totally ridiculous.
We have regular food testing to prevent contamination. You even allow mouse hair and dropping in peanut butter ,as long as its under a certain percentage. In the UK, this would never be acceptable. I feel sorry for the American people. The only way is to own a small holding and produce your own.
Not quite true, we have a permitted quantity of insect limbs and allsorts allowed in chocolate bars
They also allow 10 insect heads per 100g of fig paste.
And a certain amount of feces is allowed in US food too. Which is absolutely disgusting. How can you legislate for a certain amount of shit being allowed in food being OK? Blows my mind! Absolutely disgusting. Lol
@@hayeenot what Niles Crane says.....
These guys are pretty clued up, I've seen a few of there vlogs. I'm pretty sure they've lived in the UK (or still do). I remember seeing a vlog from Americans who visited the UK who tried Lemon Fanta and couldn't believe how nice it tasted without all the rubbish in it.
Its like American chocolate, it's vile. We know how to make chocolate here in the UK.
There is a video on UA-cam by Dr Livingood about UK Vs US food which I highly recommend watching.
It puts the ingredients lists for the UK and US version of the same product side by side on the screen at the same time so you can make a direct comparison. It only runs through six products but by putting the two ingredients lists side by side for each product the video has a big shock factor. Especially if your from the US.
Yes Tyler should absolutely react to that video it will be an eye opener for him.
There is a comparison by one channel about McDonalds. And the difference between the ingredients I'm UK vd US. Just the fries alone in the UK there's 3 ingredients whereas the US McDonalds fries has 19 INGREDIENTS! 19! Like wtf, all you need is potatoes, oil and salt.
@@chadUCSD I’ve watched the video it’s disgusting the amount of chemicals that are added to US food
This may be the most important video Tyler has done. The innocent, the uninformed, including children, are victims to the food industry. Educate family, and friends, everyone you care about. However, it is difficult to avoid these things as they are in almost everything processed. Requires a lifestyle change .
We’re not big on having yoga mats in our food in the UK. You make your food cheaply we make our food safely
There are videoes on UA-cam that compare ingredients and serving size for McDonald's meals in the UK and Usa, very interesting.
Yeah, US fries at McDonalds have 19 different ingredients. Pmsl.
Whereas the UK McDonalds fries have justv3 ingredients, potatoes, oil and salt.
Why the hell would you need 19 ingredients to make fries? Blew my mind seeing the ingredients list written out for them.
Well done for finding a really good video to react on this subject
Most of these things are also not allowed in Canada either
I’m from the UK and love SOME American food and look forward to it when travelling HOWEVER I’m glad I don’t eat it all the time and that our country does have stricter rules, as it is concerning when you think how many foods have these things in them.
UK food is tasty try before you judge
Apparently you can now get haggis, but only if made in America. The same with black pudding/blood pudding.
🇺🇸Minus certain (genuine 🏴/ original) ingredients such as lights🏴, offal🏴,
...blood🇬🇧?!! 🤔😶🥺😏😐
Americans really seem to care more about random dangerous chemicals that taste like certain ingredients instead of just using the actual ingredients. It's obviously a cost-cutting thing, but it's still appalling.
Tyler , Look on the bright side you won't self ignite with the fire retardants in your food ! I knew there was a huge difference after seeing a video showing McDonalds fries here had three products Potato, salt and oil while the USA. had 14 different chemicals etc in there frys. You would think that America would have the same strict food standards as other countries , Just need to say as a Scottish person Haggis tastes great. Great video as always .
There are plenty of videos on UA-cam of Americans who have been abroad for x number of years, they come back to the U.S. to see family and friends and quite a number of them complain about having an upset stomach, feeling bloated and constipated - their body is no longer use to the food with all the additives. As for the 1950's rule, well for goodness sake, take up smoking cigarettes, that was discovered before the 1950's, so hey, it can't be bad. The guy in the video loves Haggis, for good reason, it is delicious. Ban a natural animal product, but not dodgy drugs in food. Dear me, bonkers. Carry on with the reactions, Cheers.
It makes a lot of sense not to ban those things in the US because it helps the pharma and health industries thriving.
Whereas in europe people are more protected because it's better to have less sick people in countries with universal healthcare.
To avoid the unhealthy stuff would be cooking from scratch. But from i have learned so far that's not part of the American lifestyle because it's inconvenient.
Your bread isn’t actually allowed to be called bread. It has an ingredient that’s used in yoga mats.
And yes, Pepsi Co changed the ingredients specifically for the EU.
Sweden and Finland have also banned many of the US products.
The yoga mat thing was fear mongering from a scientifically illiterate grifter.
Their bread has so much sugar in it that it's classified as cake in Europe.
When Subway first opened in the UK they tries to use US bread in their stores amd it go banned as there was so much sugar in the bread that they had to reclassify it as cake rather than bread if they wanted to well it in their stores. So they had to end up having their bread made in the UK to our recipes in order to open their stores.
Never mind banned in the U.K. All those yummy American things are banned in the entire European Union including your eggs and chicken products
I would imagine their beef / pork products are not welcome in Europe & the UK / Ireland too, as their farming practices seem totally against how we see farming. So many additives to increase muscle / weight so that the pigs are too heavy to stand on their own limbs, cows having issues with their udders, mastitis etc due to extensive milk production... Who knows what happens to their poultry farms, chickens, turkeys... Do they have ducks & game birds too, etc? 🇺🇸🤔😐 ... It seems to all revolve around how much more can be produced to rake in plenty of profit and sort out any problems later in the slaughterhouses & factories where each poor animal ends it's miserable life...🇺🇸
(No wonder vegans exist 😞...and are so visceral about animal husbandry😢)🥺
@@brigidsingleton1596 As you say...The mighty Dollar rules all. it's a strange country without any scruples toward it's own people or animals And industrial farming is atrocious. Basket case of a place...We don't need their cattle or pork we have our own without chemicals or hormones or additives that torture the animal.
@@brigidsingleton1596They love cats and dogs though,
@@iriscollins7583
Hopefully they're not on the menu too!!!
But dont forget, they banned our Kinder Surprise eggs as they may be dangerous with a toy inside!! But not guns and food additives! What a topsy-turvy country!!!!
Further banned in Canada: rBGH, BHA and BHT, Ractopamine, Olestra and Potasium bromate.
Oh yeah, a lot of the products we have are different to the American version. For a start, to my knowledge we use little to no fructose corn syrup in our drinks.
We have some imported products in supermarkets with the markup from taxes, etc, but clearly only those without the banned ingredients.
If you watch reviewers tasting British food they often say they'res not enough flavour and not as sweet!
We don't use glucose syrup in foods!
Most of the banned foods are banned in Europe too!!!!
It makes me sad and kinda angry that here in Canada we don't follow the EU or UK more closely with this. We do ban some stuff the US doesn't but not enough imo.
Basically in the Europe you can only add stuff to food if it's proven safe, while in the USA you can add anything unless it's proven to be unsafe.
There’s one stark difference between food guidelines in America versus the rest of the world.
In most other countries, if a company wants to add something to a food item, it has to be tested and proved safe before it is allowed. This encourages food manufacturers to invest money in testing to prove it is safe, and they need to do cost analysis to ensure the saving they will make by using is is more than the costs involved in proving it safe. . The FDA works entirely the other way around. Food manufacturers can add anything they like unless it has been proven unsafe. As such there’s no incentive at all for manufacturers to test any additives. There can be two outcomes of tests. First is that it is proven safe, and they can continue to use it as before, but they’re just spent a fortune on tests. The other outcome is that it is proven to be unsafe so they can’t longer use it, but now they’ve spent a fortune testing a product they can’t use. It’s a lose/lose.There’s absolutely no incentive to test anything.
It s ‘state versus the individual’ way of thinking. Most countries oversee the safety of their citizens by ensuring companies only include safe ingredients, and they see that as their role, and the Citi agree. In the US, that’s seen as government overreach and smells of socialism, and communism. It’s up to the individual to make their own choices when it comes tk additives, as it’s part of the “freedom of the individual” mentality.
The bottom line is everywhere, safety comes first. In the US, corporate profit, and lobby groups override the safety of individuals.
Also when you have a for profit run healthcare system there is no incentive on maintaining and encouraging healthier food and lifestyle...get the blubber-bound fat blobs to pay more for their own treatment...no skin off the governments nose. They ate it, their problem, their bill to pay.
Also FYI the FDA does not control deodorants, fragrances etc. most of these products that you put on your skin EVERY DAY are carcinogens!
The meat in burgers alone are shit in US
Everything in and about the US is shit mate.
This is making me think of Super Size me, when a guy went to America and had McDonalds for 30 days, on day 1 the guy was literally vomiting back out the McDonalds on the road on his first day, he was close to organ fails on day 30.
Basically the rules are,
In Europe/UK if there's any doubt about an ingredient, then it's banned or warnings are added.
In the US ingredients can be added until they are proven to be dangerous.
It's a totally opposite approach towards food safety standards in the two different circumstances.
NOT JUST IN THE UK, THESE ARE BANNED IN THE WHOLE IF EUROPE
That's why many of us worry about standards now we have left the EU.
Potassium bromate is banned in Canada too, as is RBST and other growth hormones. This is why US meat products are not allowed here. While ractopamine is allowed here 😢 there is a program called CRFPCP here that ensure that pork produced through this program are free of it.
The thing is that American food producers go for quantity over quality. They also want long shelf life so add preservatives to permit this. You will find different types of fat, sugars etc in UK & European versions of similar products than the American. So bread for instance in the UK is only good for a few days, while additives in the US permits it to be stored for much longer. In recent years, due mostly to EU rules, many artificial additives have been removed from British foodstuffs, meaning that fruit candies now don't look as colourful as they once did, when certain colourants were permitted. It is these laws that mean European & British chocolate tastes so different, & much better, than the American version. Animal welfare standards are generally much stricter in Europe & the UK, which, for instance that chicken, & eggs, do not need the chemical washing that they receive in the US. The living conditions of the birds are kept much cleaner, which means the washing, which damages the carcasses & eggs, is not necessary. This why American eggs have to be kept refrigerated, but this is not needed in the UK. Thus UK eggs not only taste better, but the colour is better too.
Many products, like bread, sauces etc, have many more added ingredients in the US, than in the UK. Thus the products are often quite different on each side of the 'pond' when meant to be the same thing. There are a few things that are the other way round, with a product, or ingredient being banned in the US while being permitted in the UK, but this is mostly to do with competition between manufactures, or supposed H & S concerns.
The reason there's dye in mint choc chip ice cream is because mint extract is actually colourless, but people think it should be green because it comes from a leaf. That's why Ben & Jerry's mint ice cream is white.
Edit: Tyler, it's "food and drug administration" not "federal drug administration" I'm a Brit and I've seen enough American news to know that.
Then they have audacity to ban kinder eggs and some other things.
You can actually be fined thousands of dollars for bringing kinder eggs into the US. Thousands of dollars FOR EACH kinder egg.
Challenge: Write a list of all these UK banned ingredients, then do your weekly/monthly shopping and make a video to show everything you bought containing these ingredients.
I guess when the burden of healthcare is on the taxpayer you want to do anything possible to keep the people healthy. But America is just like "your health, your insurance, your wallet, go nuts" 😂
Nice to see Wandering Ravens again. I miss them; they were a nice channel.
A big one that most miss but it affects a lot of food in the USA...Ozone and Chlorine as a preservative. Ozone is often used in fruit. Chlorine is often used with meats like chicken to wash off dangerous bacteria and keep the color white. However, this is totally illegal in the UK. Instead we must properly manage hygeine. You'd be really shocked to hear that the cleanliness of factories in the UK (and most of europe) are leaps and bounds ahead of the USA. I was shocked when I recently visited a bakery in Baton Rouge (huge bread supplier, part of flowers). The standard of cleanliness was shocking. To put it in perspective, we left the engineering office to walk around the factory and my colleague was made to remove the buttons from his polo shirt as this could cause a foreign material contamination. However, after messing around in the workshop, shaking eacvhothers hands etc we were taken straight into the factory without any of us washing our hands in the slightest, much to the surprise and dismany of my group (colleagues from England, France, Spain and poland).
Both practices are banned in the UK food production industry and used very often in the states. Ive spent the last 15 years as an engineer working on food packaging machinery and production lines. This is one thing that always shcoked me. Met many people from the States at trade shows around the world. They are always shocked when I told them we cant help them there as its banned over here. Also, American milk is banned in most countries in the world.
I noticed a massive difference in how different US food tastes, and it really shocked me. McDonald's fries were so salty, i couldn’t eat them, and the diet coke even-was so sweet, it has put me off coke for life. I had take out pizza at my family's home, and it just tasted wrong, lol. I used to love lucky charms when i was a kid, but i definitely wouldn't eat it now, my only guilty pleasure is my cinnamon cereal...sure beats frosted flakes lol
I believe the American McDonald’s fries contain about 14 different ingredients but in the Uk only potatoes, oil and a little salt!
Yes, that's true, and tbh that's all they need
Not banned in just in the UK but the whole of the EU that is even stricter than the UK when it comes to food safety.
So you should get your foodstuffs shipped from France or Denmark :)
Not good as Good with their farm.anims we treat them better
@@tenniskinsella7768 More and more cows are spending their entire lives in sheds now though. At least in the past most cows were out in fields but that is changing.Europe also have banned neonicotinoid pesticides which kill bees but in the UK farmers still use them.
Heya mate, given the food danger, whats the prospects of moving to the UK?
First time I heard of Red 40 was from Reacting to my roots, that it's legal in America
Here in Canada there is no brominated anything in my Pepsi, Coke, etc!
They didn't even get to chlorinated chicken, or why you have to keep eggs in the fridge 😂
All right then why do the USA ban Coffee Sachets 2 be sent from the UK , yet you accept drinking chocolate in Sachets. I want 2 know whats the differance? Rebecca from the UK.
On May 5, 2014, Coca-Cola and PepsiCo said they would remove BVO from their products. As of early 2020, PepsiCo has stopped using BVO in all its products. BVO is still used in Sun Drop, made by the Dr Pepper Snapple Group.
I think one of the core problems is that Americans no longer know what natural food tastes like with all the enhancers, aromas, additives they add to their over-processed foods. It‘s not that products taste better, they are only endlessly more intense and too sweet. Children will no longer enjoy the taste of a garden-grown vegetable or fruit because they only know the flavors from artificial and overpowering flavors… Potassium! Bro! Mate!
I was put on a no added salt diet by my Doctor 15 years ago and now know what food tastes like. Only problem some awkward moments in restaurants when food sent back for being too salty despite waiting staff being told no added salt or alternatives.
And this all is yet another reason why I moved from the US and will never go back. I’m an emigrant now happily living in Mexico for more than three years and I have to say that I have felt healthier since I made the move and I truly believe that it’s because the food here is better for me.
basic differance between the US and UK/EU is down to outlook and it's a complete oposite approch to food safty.
In the USA a food/additive has to be proven to be harmful to the 90% of the population that are healthy. IE the people who dont have any long term health issuses like diabities, heart troubles ect.
in the UK/EU a food/additive has to be proven to be SAFE to the 10% of the population that have health issuses.
this means that when a new feed for pigs comes along and there is very little testing that has been done on it in the USA they can just start using it where as in the UK/EU it has to have proof that is it safe before it can be used. (side note US pork is banned in over 160 conties because of a pig food additive that is proven to be harmful to some people. under FDA rules it's alowed because it's not harmful to enough people)
When healthcare is paid from tax payers' money, it's in the government's best interest to keep the population healthier.
You have whiteners in flour and colours in butter
It's good to know your FDA works closely with Doctors. What they don't say is the these Doctors are Pathologists!
So we know what dead people ate
Living in the UK and having 3 children we read labels on pretty much everything, if the ingredients list things we can't get in our own kitchen then it's considered not very good.
Make it make sense? It does make sense...in the US, the dollar is king, even at the expense if the nation's health.
American food is tasteless. In Nevada I was given a non dairy milk for my cup of tea. It was disgusting and I tipped my drink into a plant pot. I thought I’ll drink water but found it had oil in it. I lost 12lb on my Vegas and san Francisco trip!
I think the main difference is in the UK you have to prove ingredients are safe before they can be used and in the US you have to prove it’s dangerous before a manufacturer will stop using it.
Yes I agree with @monty2005, we definitely should import Tyler to the UK, he deserves to survive. This is the reason I stopped going to the US. If the guns don't get you, the food will 😳🤮🇬🇧🇺🇲
you nailed it
It was kind of sad watching Tyler being so surprised about the food he eats every day. If enough people in the US saw this video.....
As with their gun problem, nothing will change.
They will just ignore it and carry on.
He probably went straight out after making this video for a McDonald's 😂