Vani Hari, a food critic, also known as Food Babe, did a comparative study on US and UK products and shared the results online.
McDonald’s French Fries
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It is very apparent in the comparison that UK products, even though branded the same, are much healthier than their US counterparts.
Kacey Birch shared the post on Facebook and it immediately went viral gaining 128,000 shares, 6,200 comments, and 8,500 likes.
Quaker Instant Oatmeal Packets
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Hari shared that the UK is very precautious when it comes to additives in food but the US are risk-takers such that they do not remove these ingredients until proven dangerous through scientific research.
Mountain Dew
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In Hari’s book Feeding You Lies, she shared that the US spends 2.5x in health care more than any other country in the world, 2/3 of Americans are obese as well as over 18% of kids.
Heinz Ketchup
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It’s quite apparent that these statistics are caused by the American diet.
Doritos
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As consumers, Hari suggested that we check the label instead of trusting what the packaging says about the products.
Kellogg’s Frosted Flakes Cereal
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Food Babe is a famous food critic in the industry with 104k Twitter fans, 283k Instagram followers, and 1.2M Facebook supporters. She is also very influential as she stopped Kraft from adding artificial color in its mac and cheese and Subway from using azodicarbonamide in its bread. She is currently working on a plight against Kellogg’s Cereal that has just come out that features Baby Shark because of its artificial flavors, colors, and BHT.
Macaroni & Cheese
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