I don’t know how to say this, but when I was in London last month on a visit, I ate the same foods that I have eaten all my life here in New Jersey and Vancouver, BC. So these included flavored oatmeal, omelets, whole wheat bread, chocolate chip cookies, and milk. I also had some sugary snacks throughout the day. Surprisingly, I did not experience any inflammation, my eczema disappeared, and I never stayed up the whole night scratching. Even the hot showers did not cause any itch.
I noticed that your cereals are not sugary. I bought this flavored oatmeal from a local Tesco Express thinking it would be perfect for me, but I had to add four teaspoons of sugar to bring it to the same level of sweetness that I am accustomed to.
Don’t get me wrong – I wasn’t eating healthy all the time. I ate a whole lotta fish and chips, loaded with ketchup. Went to Franco Manca and slammed an entire pepperoni pizza. Even with all the junk I ate, I didn’t experience any inflammation in my body.
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Dunno. We just eat it and don’t analyse it.
Yeah sorry, though it’s somewhat going downhill. We find your food hard going, in particular the sweetened bread
Some parts of this is yes: the UK does have stricter food standards and higher plant and animal health requirements on farms.
Other parts of this is that the UK palate just isn’t a sugar obsessed as the American. It’s a common complaint of Europeans in america that your bread is too sweet and there’s sugar in everything. The Irish courts ruled a couple of years ago that Subway bread has too much sugar in it to legally be called bread in Ireland.
I don’t know about more but it’s certainly differently regulated, there are some additives, processes, and colourings that we don’t allow but the US does. I’m sure there are cases where it goes the other way but in general we allow food makers to poison us a little bit less than you do.
I’ve just moved to the US for a bit and yeah there’s something wrong with your food.
UK uses a lot less additives and sugars. USA seems to cook all the flavour out and tries to make up for it with chemical nasties.
American food is allowed 5 maggots/bug part per X quantity of food while UK food is allowed 1 maggot/bug part per X quantity.
Then they will say our food sucks and we don’t season it because we actually like the taste of ingredients and don’t need some sweet or salty sauce to cover up the chemical pumped low quality food . Yea if I was eating bullshit I’d drown it in lard too
When my partner came to the UK from the US for a trip, he lost weight when eating the same foods plus extras. Way less sugar in our food.
We’re getting trolled here lads