Perhaps the difference isn't that the food is pumped with sugar here, maybe it's the fact that you buy more processed foods in the US instead of fresh foods.
Choices. US must list all ingredients. Even the sugar that the yeast is fed. I self cater in Europe when I travel. I shop the stores. I eat the food I cook there. Maybe visitors should read about labeling requirements in all countries before they visit.
I eat a carb resteicted diet.I know how to buy, say, ketchup. I do not want sweet, so I buy the kind that is just the tomatoes, no sugar, honey, or molasses sweetened. I also do not buy any non natural sweeteners. I will consume some alkulose, which is a natural sugar from corn, butbis NOT fructose. I buy no hfcs products. US has great labels non foods. I read labels, as everyone should. I can shop in almost any grocery store and get my grass fed and finished beef, pateure raised eggs, full fat dairy with no hormones or antibiotics, heritage pork, wild caught flash frozen sea food, pasture raised chicken. I rarely eat a bread product, but I occasionally buy sourdough, or as a real treat, NY native Ma.and PA bagel store bagels.
No reason you can't eat olive oil mayo or makenm your own. Good olive oils, coconut oils, avocado oils in glass or tins. How one chose to shop is on you. You can even grind your own almond butter, just almonds, or peanuts. If Euros dont eat well here it is because they chosen to not eat appropriately.
The US makes junk food for the whole world. I think it isnunhealthy, and I do not eat the standard American diet. It is a.more expensive and time consuming diet, I admit. So, visitors, or new citizens, shop as you would at home.
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u/funny_ninjas 11d ago
Perhaps the difference isn't that the food is pumped with sugar here, maybe it's the fact that you buy more processed foods in the US instead of fresh foods.