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8 Shocking American Foods Banned In Europe And Why You Should Be… Concerned!
The Hidden Ingredients the EU Won’t Allow, But You’re Still Eating!
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I had just stepped off the plane recently after 3 years abroad, and one of my first stops of course?
The supermarkets. Whole Foods, Trader Joe’s, Publix, you name it!
Because if there’s one thing America does bigger, bolder, and better, it’s supermarkets.
Aisles of snacks engineered to hijack your dopamine receptors.
Cereals so fluorescent they look radioactive. Forty-eight flavors of Oreos!
Choice! Freedom! An all-you-can-eat buffet of capitalism!
But at what cost?
Flashback a few years to a grocery store in France.
I was searching for a childhood favorite, scanning the shelves, but it was nowhere to be found.
Not out of stock. Non-existent.
I turned to a French shop assistant and asked where I could find it.
She looked at me like I’d just requested a pack of unfiltered Gauloises cigarettes for a toddler.
”That’s banned here,” she said, shaking her head. ”It’s not safe.”
“Hold up. Something I’ve been happily shoveling into my mouth since I was a kid is ILLEGAL in France?”
That’s when it hit me!
There’s an entire list of American foods that are straight-up forbidden in Europe.
Not just frowned upon. Banned!
Outlawed! Considered a public health risk!
And guess what?
If you live in the U.S., you might be eating them daily.
Most Americans assume that if it’s on a grocery store shelf, it must be safe. After all, the FDA is looking out for us, right?
