It astounds me that food has gotten so processed and 'fake' that it is possible to be overweight AND malnourished at the same time.

The EU's approach to food: "You need to prove that something is safe for human consumption before we allow it." The US's approach: "You need to prove that something might be hazardous to humans before we ban it." I know which one I prefer.

This is the genius of Japanese advertisement. If your product does not contain strawberries, to stay with the example, you are not allowed to display them in the package. You literally get what you can see.

I am an American who moved to the EU last year. The difference in the food here is shocking. I have never eaten better in my life

One of the common fears in the EU is that "opening the market" to the US would mean lowering food standards here instead of America raising theirs.

“In Europe the industry has to prove a chemical is safe before they start using it. In America the consumer has to prove a chemical is unsafe before they’ll stop using it.”

"Made in America" is a warning sign everywhere outside of the USA 😂

She forgot to mention that in Europe, even when you go to a hole-in-the-wall fast food place, they’ll list where the meat, bread, etc. come from. And Europeans are picky, if someone gets food poisoning from a restaurant, that information spreads like wildfire. If you don’t see locals eating at a restaurant, don’t go there.

Just to add, we in Europe absolutly have the option to buy cheaper lower quality processed food. It's just that the consumer cannot be lied to about what they are buying.

US legal system: "You can't just assume a strawberry pop tart contains strawberries!" Also US legal system: "You can't just assume a boneless chicken contains no bones!"

2:14 "Non-dairy whipped topping": My father once looked at the ingredients list on a can of such stuff, observed all the petroleum derivatives, and declared "This is just sweetened axle grease!"

We even have an Ultra Processed Orange President.

"This looks like cheese right?" My european ass: fuck no "But it isn't" No shit sherlock

as italian this video is traumatic, how can a goverment let his own people eat not even real food?

America really isn't a country, it's a corporation. And corporations always work to benefit at the expense of their consumers.

And Trump wonders why we Europeans don't buy more American "food". Lol, no, thank you very much.

I think it is interesting that Mac and Cheese contained real cheese during the Great Depression, but felt like needing to substitute it later.

Long story short: We europeans often rant about the EU - but god, am i glad that i don't have to eat this.... well, i don't want to call it food. We can be glad that the EU exists.

As an American living in Europe, it is astonishing how many top-quality foods are truly affordable here. In the U.S., healthy or high-quality foods are seen as "elitist" by many, when the reality is food standards, had they been proactive instead of reactive, could have kept food costs low for "real" food. I'm never going back.

I am a American and a type 2 diabetic, reading labels taught me not just about substitutions but that our entire food chain is poisoned with tons of refined sugar, salt and added fat. Sugar is especially bad - I have to look for peanut butter made from peanuts with no sugar added. I have yet to make my own ketchup, but I just might, since there's added sugar there too. Yes really. I have to re-engineer food and recipes all the time to screen a lot of it out, and it takes a tremendous amount of time and effort to do it. Having all that garbage added to the food isn't an accident either - the object is to hit the 'bliss point,' the trifecta of sugar salt and fat content at which point the product tastes so good the customer becomes addicted to it. Big Food actively works to keep it that way so the customer keeps coming back. The US companies don't dare send that stuff to Europe, they have a whole separate series of products that conform to your standards. I wish we had those standards here. Meanwhile I buy real olive oil, real Parmesan cheese, and do a lot of my own cooking. I should get back to making bread as well, since I can grind my own wheat. The problem is time - every meal I have to create from scratch takes longer than throwing the contents of a cardboard box at a pot of boiling water. It also costs more.