You come on vacation to some country, come to a store and you certainly do not expect that some of the products you are used to may not be on the shelves simply because someone in the government thought that they were unhealthy or the manufacturing company simply removed "Wrong" advertising. We found prohibited foods. What is not sold abroad, what is useless to look for in the supermarkets of quite civilized countries? Let's figure it out!
Mountain Dew and other drinks
Mountain Dew is a carbonated beverage made by Pepsi. It can be called an analogue of the more popular "Sprite". Its recipe was found in the 1940s, and to date, the manufacturer offers consumers about a dozen varieties of this soda.
Mountain Dew is not sold in Europe or Japan. This is due to the addition of BVO, which gives the drink a citrus flavor. It is believed that this artificial substance, invented by chemists, can have a bad effect on human health, causing a bunch of side effects, among which the most harmless are allergic rashes and arrhythmias.
Also, in some countries of the world, for example, in Cuba and North Korea, it is useless to look for the famous "Coca-Cola" for sale. The ban on its sale is associated with economic sanctions, and not with concern for the health of its own citizens.
Nesquik products
In the UK, the authorities were negatively affected by the products offered by the American company Nestlé under the Nesquik brand. The manufacturing company made a mistake on an advertisement for a cocoa drink and related products, where the cartoon Kwiki rabbit with funny ears promises the kids who started the day with a cup of Nesquik cocoa its great sequel. In the opinion of British politicians, this is not the case, and the company is misleading consumers, which means that it should be punished by a ban on the sale of its products.
In general, the British decided the issue with cartoon advertising dramatically. The drawn characters will no longer appear in commercials dedicated to chocolate, soda and other junk food. For example, in the UK, the chocolate eggs "Cadbury", which attracted the attention of babies with the bunny depicted on the wrapper, were withdrawn from sale.
It was decided to remove the cartoon advertisement after the British Health Committee sounded the alarm, indicating to the society the number of children suffering from obesity. And this number is growing steadily.
Similar ads are banned in India for the same reasons.
Chips "Lay's light"
You might be surprised to find that certain types of chips are not sold in Europe or Canada. The manufacturer Lay's, pandering to the healthy food trend, has released a new chip called Lay's light. Their difference from the previous products consisted in the fact that the chips were fat-free, which means, according to the marketing specialists of the manufacturer, they could not help but please people watching their appearance.
However, over time, it turned out that the fat-free product was achieved due to the addition of the unhealthy substance olestra, which fatally affects the digestive tract.
Sometimes a manufacturer of goods that want to be banned in a particular country instantly reacts by changing harmful additives to better ones, thus leaving their products on the market. This is what the McDonald's restaurant chain did when it became known that bromide salt, which is dangerous to human health, was added to hamburger and cheeseburgers. This substance makes the dough more elastic, and, as McDonald's technologists think, is absolutely necessary for their rolls.
When Canada, China and European countries raised a fuss about the use of bromide salt in edible products, McDonald's immediately changed the technology. Now, in these civilized countries, worried about the health of their own citizens, more expensive, high-quality analogues are added when baking buns. The rest of the world is McDonald's bromide rolls.
And what else?
In fact, many products are banned abroad:
- in Australia and New Zealand, farmed salmon cannot be found on the market, in the feed of which astaxanthin is added, which can give salmon meat a more attractive color and at the same time reduce the eyesight of people who enjoy such a product;
- in 160 countries of the world, meat from America with a high content of ractopamine, a poisonous additive that causes the rapid growth of animals, is banned;
- chocolate dragee “M & M’s” from the company “Mars” has not been sold in Sweden since 2016, as it has a logo similar to that of a local, highly respected and beloved chocolate manufacturer;
- poppy seeds are recognized as harmful products in Singapore;
- lettuce, whose name offends the feelings of local believers, is not being brought to Iraq;
- in France, school cafeterias do not sell ketchup, which, according to the authorities, is not suitable for traditional French dishes;
- in Germany banned the sale of chocolates of the domestic brand "Ritter sport", which does not include sugar, but it must be in chocolate, according to the local GOST.
