Originally Posted by
hlburi
US mass produced food is disgusting. Too many chemicals, too many preservatives.
I cook most of my own food these days, including making my own salad dressings, etc. I read labels heavily and don't buy anything with preservatives, chemicals, etc. I might note that I feel much better since I started doing this.
I've also switched my sweetener to Stevia. It's a natural herb sweetner. IT doesn't contain saccherine or aspertame. (I use this in my teas).
Its bad in US, but actually I found the UK was worse.
- They dont have to declare if they use hydrogenated oils, which they do massively across the board.
- Also lots of use of artifical colourings and flavours.
- And many UK food and drink manufactuers create "low sugar" products that have artifical sweetners - but they dont declare that up front - you have to dig in the ingredients to find out: e.g. if you drink Pimms, you are sucking aspartame - and they dont tell you.
Only saving grace is that the UK has lots of organic choices, so you can avoid the garbage.
Continental Europe in general is somewhat better, but not always. Here in Norway it is just as bad as UK - you go in the store and all the dry goods in stores are chock full of bad stuff. And even worse the people are very unaware of the issues. So there is little market for alternate foods, very little choice of organics and so on.