Potassium bromate is a suspected carcinogen that's banned for human consumption in Europe, China and India, but not in the United States.
A range of other chemicals and substances banned in Europe over health concerns are also permitted in the U.S., including Titanium dioxide (also known as E171); Brominated vegetable oil (BVO) (E443); Potassium bromate (E924); Azodicarbonamide (E927a) and Propylparaben (E217).
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 61 | February 26, 2023 1:47 AM |
All of our processed food is awful. It’s sad what they can put in our food.
| by Anonymous | reply 1 | February 21, 2023 4:20 PM |
“We don’t need the government telling us what to do. No government regulations! I want my freedoms!”
| by Anonymous | reply 2 | February 21, 2023 4:26 PM |
You ingest all this carcinogenic crap over there on a daily basis without batting an eye, but then lose your shit when bottoms aren't sparkling clean down there. I just find that hysterical.
| by Anonymous | reply 3 | February 21, 2023 4:28 PM |
UK can look forward to US chlorine chicken, it's coming soon bitchesl
| by Anonymous | reply 4 | February 21, 2023 4:29 PM |
R3 Bitch speaks the truth. But, we must PICK our battles that we can win or be tethered to a lifetime of soul crushing losses.
| by Anonymous | reply 5 | February 21, 2023 4:47 PM |
Our foods are treated with Nutidation. It's a chemical reaction that feels like heat in your mouth.
| by Anonymous | reply 6 | February 21, 2023 4:59 PM |
They also banned gmos and have no fucks about it.
| by Anonymous | reply 8 | February 21, 2023 8:28 PM |
Bread in the US is the worst. Whiteners, dough conditioners and rising agents, potassium bromate, azodicarbonamide, BHA, BHT, not to mention the flour "enriched" with chemical vitamins.
It's all crap. I just refuse to eat it.
| by Anonymous | reply 10 | February 22, 2023 12:14 AM |
[Quote]All of our processed food is awful. It’s sad what they can put in our food.
It's not just processed foods that are crap in the USA. Enjoy your dropping average life span, USA.
| by Anonymous | reply 12 | February 22, 2023 10:23 AM |
Bromated flour is also banned in the UK, Canada, Japan, S. Korea, Peru, Brazil, Argentina, Nigeria, Sri Lanka, and MANY others... banned in over one hundred different countries, yet America knows better somehow?
I avoid pizza in the States if they admit to using "All Trumps" flour, by General Mills. It not only has a tonne of potassium bromide, but other equally icky dough "conditioners". Ask your favourite neighbourhood pizzeria if they use bromated flour... You'll be surprised how many do. All Trumps is the American best-seller. It is not allowed in California for some reason! I wonder what that could be?
| by Anonymous | reply 13 | February 22, 2023 10:30 AM |
After living outside the US for so long, I’m always taken aback by the food when I visit. So many things are so processed and artificial tasting filled with chemicals and/or unnecessary sweeteners. Most of the meats taste differently as well especially beef and chicken. I had this supposedly locally famous bbq chicken on the last visit, and it was mutant sized and completely flavourless and watery. The corn fed factory US cattle seem like a different species altogether from the mostly pasture raised ones where I currently live. US food is viewed as toxic in much of Europe. It’s a major barrier to trade deals.
| by Anonymous | reply 14 | February 22, 2023 10:46 AM |
Sounds like the ingredients for America's favorite: deep fry batter.
They were also warned bacon and processed meats cause cancer in a similar manner to smoking and they just said: "Thanks, I'll have more then! Don't tell me what to shove down my fat face! Murica!"
| by Anonymous | reply 16 | February 22, 2023 11:36 AM |
The FDA are looking very corrupt right about now.
| by Anonymous | reply 17 | February 22, 2023 11:43 AM |
You British counts always cunting on American food, here's your no additive bread, the most popular according to Sales online. Fuck you and all your additives. Check out the additive free bread ingredients.
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 18 | February 22, 2023 4:30 PM |
R18 The UK is not a member of the European Union.
| by Anonymous | reply 19 | February 22, 2023 4:36 PM |
Prior to bromides they put iodine in bread, which is good for the thyroid, bromide is the opposite. Bromide destroys the thyroid. People now have thyroid problems and are getting fat. It’s a huge issue.
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 20 | February 22, 2023 4:53 PM |
It's no surprise that the USA is #1 by way of diabetes, cancer, autism, food allergies, multiple sclerosis and other nervous-system disorders, lupus, and a host of other shit that's killing off the population.
Like the woman in the article who left the USA and would never return, I also left more than 25 years ago and live in a country where all of the food is real, wholesome, and bountiful, and meals don't consist of chemicals but are made from scratch.
| by Anonymous | reply 21 | February 23, 2023 12:24 AM |
Absentee government still reeling from bitch-slaps by TALK RADIO SHOW HOSTS. Is anybody in government thinking clearly??
| by Anonymous | reply 22 | February 23, 2023 1:07 AM |
This information will be included in the discovery process when lawsuits against American food manufacturers begin.
| by Anonymous | reply 23 | February 23, 2023 1:09 AM |
Which country r21? I'm looking to leave myself.
| by Anonymous | reply 25 | February 23, 2023 1:25 AM |
In Australia, folic acid and iodine are added to bread, unless it's labelled organic.
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 26 | February 23, 2023 4:32 AM |
It's so bad, most of the cheese at the grocery store is plastic. It's all "imitation product" unless you buy the fresh cut, expensive cheese.
| by Anonymous | reply 27 | February 23, 2023 5:01 AM |
Unlike Europe here the corporations can do whatever they want- generally, as long as they give enough GRAFT to BOTH the Democrats and the Republicans.
| by Anonymous | reply 28 | February 23, 2023 5:39 AM |
So are we to assume that unless it's explicitly indicated that the flour used in the bread is unbromated, it's not? They will not necessarily list bromate in their ingredients? There should be a law that should enfore to list all ingedients. Now I'm wondering why I got diagnosed thyroid cancer about 5 years ago - discovered coincidentally for other medical issues.
| by Anonymous | reply 29 | February 23, 2023 12:19 PM |
r29 You probably weigh five hundred pounds and smoke like a chimney too.
| by Anonymous | reply 30 | February 23, 2023 6:07 PM |
R29 correct. It must say unbromated flour. Which is pretty much only a few organics and Jewish breads.
| by Anonymous | reply 32 | February 23, 2023 6:26 PM |
40 years ago I took some nutrition science courses at Cornell. That department was in the Human Ecology school which was mostly a health sciences school. Cornell is New York's land grant university so the "Food Science" division of the Agriculture School has worked for 150+ years to help famers and agriculture make money. In a nutshell, the Agriculture school spent decades inventing Frankenfood. Meanwhile the Nutrition school knew how bad it all was. Nutrition science isn't that complicated and the knowledge hasn't changed enormously in 40 years. Everything the professor taught us about healthy and unhealthy food is still true 40 years later.
The US is run by business interests. That is why the food isn't TOP QUALITY for a rich country.
Frankenfood is a commodity designed to be successful. People like it and everyone involved in the production makes money, in theory.
| by Anonymous | reply 33 | February 23, 2023 6:34 PM |
Bread is supposed to be flour, yeast, and water (and salt). And that's it.
I've read through so many bread labels at my local ShopRite. The bread section is huge with so many brands. But it's all junk. Even Dave's Killer Bread has sugar in it. Why?
The only bread the store sells that is unadulterated is a pita bread that says "no bromates". And Ezekiel bread. And that's it.
| by Anonymous | reply 34 | February 23, 2023 6:47 PM |
Don't forget the 10 year old McDonalds meals looking fresh as a spring daisy.
| by Anonymous | reply 35 | February 23, 2023 6:56 PM |
[quote]at my local ShopRite.
Always the first place to visit for unadulterated food.
| by Anonymous | reply 36 | February 23, 2023 7:26 PM |
It's gotten better in recent years, but I used to really struggle to find edible food in my hometown grocery store when I came back to America to visit family. Plastic-looking, tasteless apples and tomatoes; soft, sugary bread; yogurt made with gelatin; "fresh" milk that stays good for a month.
| by Anonymous | reply 38 | February 23, 2023 7:33 PM |
[quote]Always the first place to visit for unadulterated food.
Are you aware of the fact that many towns in the US (including mine) have only one supermarket and no other choices?
Is it too much to ask that a supermarket chain carry unadulterated bread?
| by Anonymous | reply 40 | February 23, 2023 8:45 PM |
R18, which of those additives are you objecting to? The Vitamin B added? The ascorbic acid (Vitamin C)? The only thing in this cheapest of supermarket bread to give any pause for thought is the mould inhibitor, calcium proprionate but it's small beer compared with the really fun stuff shoved into US bread.
| by Anonymous | reply 41 | February 23, 2023 8:46 PM |
R13...That couldn't be more a appropriate name for the crappiest, most toxic preserved flour....All TRUMP.
| by Anonymous | reply 42 | February 23, 2023 9:38 PM |
I've bought a bread maker and order french flour and yeast online. American bread makes me ill and hungry afterwards, but when I use French ingredients there is no problem, no bloat and no mysterious hunger feeling afterwards. This means my weight is kept down despite eating carbs occasionally.
I only wish I could get French meat, dairy and vegetables to avoid the hormones and pesticides unavoidable in American food. Actually I wish I could get every item from France. The French, in particular, do not allow fattening FDA-style Frankenfuckery with their food.
| by Anonymous | reply 43 | February 23, 2023 9:53 PM |
In other news: Water Found to Still Definitely Be Wet, Experts Say.
| by Anonymous | reply 44 | February 23, 2023 9:55 PM |
Eating is so complicated.
| by Anonymous | reply 45 | February 23, 2023 11:08 PM |
Italy said no to American Frankenfoods as well.
| by Anonymous | reply 46 | February 24, 2023 12:30 AM |
WHERE CAN I BUY NON CANCER BREAD?
NO MORE CANCER BREAD!
| by Anonymous | reply 47 | February 24, 2023 12:33 AM |
I HATE THIS SHITTY ASS FUCKING COUNTRY. ONLY A FEW RICH AND EVERYONE ELSE DYING OF CANCER BREAD
FUCK YOU ASSHOLE FOOD CORP CEOS
| by Anonymous | reply 48 | February 24, 2023 12:34 AM |
[quote]WHERE CAN I BUY NON CANCER BREAD?
At the non cancer supermarket, of course.
| by Anonymous | reply 49 | February 24, 2023 11:37 AM |
You can still find tasty locally grown fruit in the Pac NW. The produce quality there seems better than anywhere else in the U.S.
| by Anonymous | reply 50 | February 24, 2023 1:26 PM |
Fat lying cunts whine about American bread then run out and get Whopper.
| by Anonymous | reply 51 | February 25, 2023 12:52 AM |
I honestly wish this country would cut back on all of the excessive amounts of sugar, salt, fat, oil, butter, cheese, HFCS, etc that they put in everything.
All of the deceptive claims, additives and preservatives are mind boggling.
Why can't we just stop using food dyes and food coloring? Is your ketchup, mustard and ranch being a very bright color more important than your own health?
A lot of these people care more about satisfying their tastebuds than living longer. Either life is that shitty or they're way too stupid to live.
| by Anonymous | reply 52 | February 25, 2023 1:08 AM |
True story - I was constantly having abdominal pain the past couple of months especially after a meal. The diagnosis is gastritis and given medication. But it didn't really seem to help. And I was also being very careful of what I eat. Then I went on a trip in Asia for about two weeks. Because it's a vacation, what the heck - I eat a lot and it seemed everyting. Surprisingly, I didn't have symptom for almost the duration of my vacation. Then I came back to the states and was fine for a few days but unfortunately my symptoms came back again. Still figuring out what specific food triggers the flare-ups but now I can believe that almost everything in the supermarket is suspect.
| by Anonymous | reply 53 | February 25, 2023 1:31 AM |
I’m not eating much post-Covid…but funny enough, all the processed food tastes like snot right now. I made some hummus tonight and ate that with organic carrots and cauliflower. That was fine. I might not go back to the land of frozen pizza and Pringles.
| by Anonymous | reply 54 | February 25, 2023 1:40 AM |
Has everyone forgotten the Kerry Gold butter has been recalled? Now Ireland is trying to kill us.
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 56 | February 25, 2023 11:57 PM |
They'll stuff their faces daily with harmful additives, but they'll scream and holler if you suggest they get vaccinated.
| by Anonymous | reply 57 | February 26, 2023 12:34 AM |
r57 The inverse of that also exists.
"They'll stuff their faces daily with harmful additives, but they'll scream and holler that you're a risk to their health if you don't get vaccinated."
America is a country full of hypocrites. Very fat hypocrites.
| by Anonymous | reply 59 | February 26, 2023 1:15 AM |
I hardly ever buy bread at home but I do eat it when I go to restaurants and they serve it to me—and of course, restaurants use the most cost-effective bulk ingredients.
Wheat overall in the US seems to be toxic.
And digestive problems are terrifying. My mother died five years ago at 66 from what she was told for years was IBS, and then in the ICU before she died, they said it was either Crohn's disease or ulcerative colitis. She basically starved to death.
No history of that in my family until now.
Six months after our mother died, my sister was diagnosed with ulcerative colitis and she is being treated with a steroid.
Two good friends of mine over the past five years or so were diagnosed with Celiac disease, and both are angry about it and are the types of people who used to be annoyed by people who say they can't eat gluten. Both have unbearable digestive problems if they ingest any wheat with gluten.
I'm sure wheat in the US is also tainted with carcinogentic and neurotoxic herbicides.
There's really no escape. It's crazy. There's that old adage about not poisoning one's own well and this country's government allows corporations to poison the entire population.
| by Anonymous | reply 60 | February 26, 2023 1:33 AM |
Another problem in the US is that certain food processing and practices do not need to labeled.
I buy plain raw almonds which I enjoy, but look at this: "almonds are the only nut, seed or dried fruit that must — by law — be pasteurized. If they're not steamed, they must be fumigated with a chemical called propylene oxide, or PPO."
Nice.
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 61 | February 26, 2023 1:47 AM |
