8 Foods We Eat That Other Countries Ban

[John81]

8 Foods We Eat That Other Countries Ban

 

There are chemicals and additives we allow in our snacks, drinks and packaged foods that other countries consider so unhealthy, they’ve banned them.

 

What are we talking about?

 

Here’s just one example: Fake coloring that gives those eerie bright hues to boxed mac and cheese, breakfast cereal, candy and soft drinks. Linked to behavioral changes in children, allergies, migraines and possibly cancer, those dyes are banned in several countries plus the United Kingdom — but not in the United States.

 

In March, two mothers petitioned Kraft to use safer, natural coloring in their mac and cheese products, as the company does in other countries where the dyes are illegal. Kraft said no.

Or how about brominated vegetable oil, or BVO, that’s added to citrus-flavored soda (like Mountain Dew) and sports drinks to make the artificial colors stick to the liquid. BVO contains bromine, which is used as a flame-retardant and has been linked to neurological problems and interference with thyroid hormones.

 

BVO has been banned in all European Union countries, as well as India and Japan, yet it’s in U.S. products. In January, PepsiCo announced it would no longer use the additive in Gatorade, after consumers complained, but would leave it in Mountain Dew.

 

The full list of foods with questionable chemicals banned elsewhere comes from a new book by nutritionists Jayson Calton, Ph.D., and Mira Carlton called Rich Food, Poor Food. It was also reported by BuzzFeed.com. Here are eight banned foods available in the U.S.

 

1. Artificially colored food made with dyes derived from petroleum and coal tar. Yellow 5, Red 40 and six others dyes — used to enhance products from Froot Loops to Nutri-Grain cereal bars — are called the “rainbow of risk” by the Center for Science in the Public Interest. They are banned in Norway, Finland, France, Austria and the U.K.

 

2. Chicken with arsenic. Arsenic in chicken feed cuts down on parasites, makes chickens grow faster and gives their meat more color. It also gives the chicken we eat higher levels of arsenic, known to cause lung, bladder and skin cancers, a study last month by the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in Baltimore found. Arsenic-laced feed is banned in the European Union.

 

3. Drinks with brominated vegetable oil (BVO). Bromine is a chemical used to keep carpets from catching fire, among other things, so why is it in our food? PepsiCo is removing it from Gatorade but keeping it in Mountain Dew. BVO is banned in more than 100 countries.

 

4. Breads with potassium bromate, used in bromated flour to make bread products rise higher and faster. Found in rolls, bagel chips, bread crumbs and  flatbreads, potassium bromate has been linked to thyroid and kidney cancers in lab animals. It has been banned in Europe, Canada and China. California declared it a carcinogen in 1991.

 

5. Frozen dinners with azodicarbonamide. This is used to bleach and stabilize flour and also to make foamed plastic products like yoga mats and sneakers. Found in frozen TV dinners, packaged baked goods and some breads, it has been associated with inducing asthma. It is banned in Australia, the U.K. and most European countries.

 

6. Food preserved with BHA and BHT. These preservatives are added to cereal, nut mixes, gum, butter, meat and dehydrated potatoes to keep them from turning rancid. The debate over their safety has been going on in the U.S. for years. Meanwhile, they’re banned in the U.K., Japan and many European countries.

 

7. Milk with rBGH and rBST, also known as bovine growth hormones. Synthetic hormones, these are given to cows and therefore found in milk and other dairy products (unless the label specifically says otherwise). They have been linked to cancer and infertility and are banned in Australia, New Zealand, Canada, Japan and the European Union.

 

8. Chips with Olestra or Olean, a fat substitute used in fat-free chips, like Ruffles Wow. Olestra and Olean can produce cramps and leaky bowels and are banned in the U.K. and Canada.

 

http://blog.aarp.org/2013/06/25/8-foods-we-eat-that-other-countries-ban/?cmp=NLC-RSS-DAILY-BULLETIN-101813-H3

[JerryNumbers]

Americans will almost eat anything they can get in their mouth.

[swathdiver]

Just because someone else banned it and its under fire by liberals doesn't mean it's bad for you.

 

BPA has been removed from our storage containers and cups and such and now food/drink doesn't keep as long as it used to.  It's supposed dangers are all bogus.

[Covenanter]

Just because someone else banned it and its under fire by liberals doesn't mean it's bad for you.

 

BPA has been removed from our storage containers and cups and such and now food/drink doesn't keep as long as it used to.  It's supposed dangers are all bogus.

 

WOW!! So food safety is all political - advocated by communists & liberals in cahoots. I'm sure you would have agreed with the French Queen, Marie Antoinette who, faced with starving peasants, & learning of a bread shortage, said "Let them eat cake!"

 

Where is our basic freedom to eat all the additives industry has created for our consumption & tomaximise their profits? Surely we should add chemicals to make fresh food last indefinitely?! No - bad idea 'cos it reduces profits. Better to put a sell-by date on, so they throw away good food.

 

Where is your research that proves conclusively that the research indicating the dangers of bisphenol 'A' leaching from container into food is all bogus? It was included for good commercial reasons & needing convincing reasons to remove it.

 

I am aware of a comment, decades ago, that the danger of leaching into the alcohol miniatures used on aircraft, made of plastic for safety reasons, was significantly less than the harmful effects of the alcohol in the container.

[Invicta]

WOW!! So food safety is all political - advocated by communists & liberals in cahoots. I'm sure you would have agreed with the French Queen, Marie Antoinette who, faced with starving peasants, & learning of a bread shortage, said "Let them eat cake!"

 

Where is our basic freedom to eat all the additives industry has created for our consumption & tomaximise their profits? Surely we should add chemicals to make fresh food last indefinitely?! No - bad idea 'cos it reduces profits. Better to put a sell-by date on, so they throw away good food.

 

Where is your research that proves conclusively that the research indicating the dangers of bisphenol 'A' leaching from container into food is all bogus? It was included for good commercial reasons & needing convincing reasons to remove it.

 

I am aware of a comment, decades ago, that the danger of leaching into the alcohol miniatures used on aircraft, made of plastic for safety reasons, was significantly less than the harmful effects of the alcohol in the container.

 

Actually,  Marie Antoinette said "Let them eat brioche. "  But I agree with you.  It is the liberals who let their people eat any poisons the food companies want to add to their diet who are a danger.

[The Glory Land]

8 Foods We Eat That Other Countries Ban

 

There are chemicals and additives we allow in our snacks, drinks and packaged foods that other countries consider so unhealthy, they’ve banned them.

 

What are we talking about?

 

Here’s just one example: Fake coloring that gives those eerie bright hues to boxed mac and cheese, breakfast cereal, candy and soft drinks. Linked to behavioral changes in children, allergies, migraines and possibly cancer, those dyes are banned in several countries plus the United Kingdom — but not in the United States.

 

In March, two mothers petitioned Kraft to use safer, natural coloring in their mac and cheese products, as the company does in other countries where the dyes are illegal. Kraft said no.

Or how about brominated vegetable oil, or BVO, that’s added to citrus-flavored soda (like Mountain Dew) and sports drinks to make the artificial colors stick to the liquid. BVO contains bromine, which is used as a flame-retardant and has been linked to neurological problems and interference with thyroid hormones.

 

BVO has been banned in all European Union countries, as well as India and Japan, yet it’s in U.S. products. In January, PepsiCo announced it would no longer use the additive in Gatorade, after consumers complained, but would leave it in Mountain Dew.

 

The full list of foods with questionable chemicals banned elsewhere comes from a new book by nutritionists Jayson Calton, Ph.D., and Mira Carlton called Rich Food, Poor Food. It was also reported by BuzzFeed.com. Here are eight banned foods available in the U.S.

 

1. Artificially colored food made with dyes derived from petroleum and coal tar. Yellow 5, Red 40 and six others dyes — used to enhance products from Froot Loops to Nutri-Grain cereal bars — are called the “rainbow of risk” by the Center for Science in the Public Interest. They are banned in Norway, Finland, France, Austria and the U.K.

 

2. Chicken with arsenic. Arsenic in chicken feed cuts down on parasites, makes chickens grow faster and gives their meat more color. It also gives the chicken we eat higher levels of arsenic, known to cause lung, bladder and skin cancers, a study last month by the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in Baltimore found. Arsenic-laced feed is banned in the European Union.

 

3. Drinks with brominated vegetable oil (BVO). Bromine is a chemical used to keep carpets from catching fire, among other things, so why is it in our food? PepsiCo is removing it from Gatorade but keeping it in Mountain Dew. BVO is banned in more than 100 countries.

 

4. Breads with potassium bromate, used in bromated flour to make bread products rise higher and faster. Found in rolls, bagel chips, bread crumbs and  flatbreads, potassium bromate has been linked to thyroid and kidney cancers in lab animals. It has been banned in Europe, Canada and China. California declared it a carcinogen in 1991.

 

5. Frozen dinners with azodicarbonamide. This is used to bleach and stabilize flour and also to make foamed plastic products like yoga mats and sneakers. Found in frozen TV dinners, packaged baked goods and some breads, it has been associated with inducing asthma. It is banned in Australia, the U.K. and most European countries.

 

6. Food preserved with BHA and BHT. These preservatives are added to cereal, nut mixes, gum, butter, meat and dehydrated potatoes to keep them from turning rancid. The debate over their safety has been going on in the U.S. for years. Meanwhile, they’re banned in the U.K., Japan and many European countries.

 

7. Milk with rBGH and rBST, also known as bovine growth hormones. Synthetic hormones, these are given to cows and therefore found in milk and other dairy products (unless the label specifically says otherwise). They have been linked to cancer and infertility and are banned in Australia, New Zealand, Canada, Japan and the European Union.

 

8. Chips with Olestra or Olean, a fat substitute used in fat-free chips, like Ruffles Wow. Olestra and Olean can produce cramps and leaky bowels and are banned in the U.K. and Canada.

 

http://blog.aarp.org/2013/06/25/8-foods-we-eat-that-other-countries-ban/?cmp=NLC-RSS-DAILY-BULLETIN-101813-H3

 

 

 

So I can still eat a Big Mac...

[Covenanter]

So I can still eat a Big Mac...

 

Of course - as long as you don't eat the bread or the beef - &  not washed down with Coke.

[ASongOfDegrees]

I'll eat whatever I want and thank God for it.

[Covenanter]

Actually,  Marie Antoinette said "Let them eat brioche. "  But I agree with you.  It is the liberals who let their people eat any poisons the food companies want to add to their diet who are a danger.

I expected that "correction" but reject it, as I reject your point of agreement!

 

Brioche was/is a cake of stale leftover bread. No bread  no brioche! But Marie Antoinette had plenty, as, of course, our bankers, industrialists & politicians have. Read Isaiah 10.

 

And of course it is the liberals & communists who are concerned with food standards - food standards cost profits, & the "need" for . excessive profits costs jobs - & livelihoods. The poor were robbed of the land, moved into the towns to work in the factories, & now they are robbed of their ability to earn a living. If we can't starve them, let's poison them with adulterated food, & refuse them health care, so they won't be a burden on the rich.

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I was reminded, in connection with the evil Peshawar church bomb, of a similar event 50 years ago in Birmingham, Alabama.

[Alimantado]

I bet with any country you can come up with a short list of legal food products that are banned in lots of other countries. Off the back of a really quick Google search, here are four foods that are banned in the USA (or parts of) but legal in the UK:

 

--Trans fats

--Haggis (or anything with Sheep lung in it)

--Unpasteurized milk

--E104, E107 (food colouring, there are loads more like this)

[Ukulelemike]

Interestingly, with the food nazis usualy being the Liberals, its odd that its the Lobs who are, in some form, fighting Mansanto, while the Conservatives are fighting even labling products that have GMO products in them. As well, the bouncing of the heads of Mansanto and the FDA and USDA among themselves began in the Reagan administration, (who also allowed Mansanto to be the first to patent a seed), and  while both sides continue it, it is mostly Conservatives who stand for Mansanto and against organics and things like energy independence. Somehow, to be good, small-government conservatives, we must remain attached to government-subsidised power companies and have no say in the food we eat. I'm pretty-well sick of both sides.

[Covenanter]

Long live Rachel Carson ! Can we ever win against Monsanto ?

 

"Food nazis" ? I glad to have them on my side - who knows where we'd be if big aggrobusiness went unchallenged?

[Invicta]

I bet with any country you can come up with a short list of legal food products that are banned in lots of other countries. Off the back of a really quick Google search, here are four foods that are banned in the USA (or parts of) but legal in the UK:

 

--Trans fats

--Haggis (or anything with Sheep lung in it)

--Unpasteurized milk

--E104, E107 (food colouring, there are loads more like this)

 

In France it is difficult to find pasteurized milk, let alone unpasteurized.  They almost entirely have UHT  (Sometimes called "Utterly horrible taste."

 

Because of a food scare with pasteurized milk a few years ago. most of our supermarkets have their milk pasteurized for longer or at a higher temperature.  Although it is probably available somewhere, I have not seen unpasteurized milk (green top) for years. 

 

Isn't lung called lights?  That was available in the war, when we ate a lot of strange things.  We even ate corned beef.

[John81]

Interestingly, with the food nazis usualy being the Liberals, its odd that its the Lobs who are, in some form, fighting Mansanto, while the Conservatives are fighting even labling products that have GMO products in them. As well, the bouncing of the heads of Mansanto and the FDA and USDA among themselves began in the Reagan administration, (who also allowed Mansanto to be the first to patent a seed), and  while both sides continue it, it is mostly Conservatives who stand for Mansanto and against organics and things like energy independence. Somehow, to be good, small-government conservatives, we must remain attached to government-subsidised power companies and have no say in the food we eat. I'm pretty-well sick of both sides.

The problem with conservatives today is that they are not conservatives. When conservatives of the past spoke of small government, they actually meant small government. When conservatives today speak of small government they mean a little less money for some government programs, perhaps offering to change a program their opponents started to something they like better.

 

Other than Ron Paul, what primary candidates in the last two elections put forth any plans to truly shrink the size of the government?

 

Today, conservatives and liberals alike, whether Dem or Repub, are lovers and supporters of big government.

[JerryNumbers]

I eat what I like, & nothing else, I do not eat at MacDonalds, I do not care for their food, never have.

 

Burger King & or Whataburger has the best hamburgers. Years ago Minuteman had good hamburgers.

 

Yet the best hamburgers I remember were bought by my father back in the 50's & or early 60's, 5 for a dollar at  a mom & pop hamburger place.