They ban or add warning labels to these additives for their citizens. Europe takes a precautionary principle approach towards food additives that are potentially risky. Bored panda reached out to hari aka food babe to get more info about food nutrition and the reasons why products have different ingredients in the us and the uk.
American author and food blogger vani hari going as food babe online recently compared the same or similar foods in the uk and the usa and found out that even though they might look similar visually their composition varies quite greatly. Hence the uk and the usa both have some of the highest food standards anywhere in the world. Whilst they share the same overall score the uk scored 100 100 for food safety 100 100 for presence of food safety net programmes and 100 100 for nutritional standards.
The us also shares joint third place in the studies rankings with the uk. It estimated that in the uk a million people a year suffer a foodborne illness. The estimate that one in 66 people in the uk gets food poisoning is based on a 2011 fsa report.
The uk s food standards agency fsa told us the estimates for the number of people with food poisoning in the uk and usa are not directly comparable. Channel 4 s tricks of the restaurant trade asked american students studying in the uk to discuss the differences between uk and american versions of the same. While they often sell the same menu in the uk sometimes the food can be very different.
Mcdonalds burger king subway kfc pizza hut domino s to name but a few. American fast food chains have spread around the world. Chantal 27 says the biggest difference between the diets in the us and the uk to her is the drinking culture.
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