I will try to refrain from just posting a link but I found this article too interesting to not pass along. It sorta makes me wish I could become a European for safer food regulations and just plain better food.. except for maybe Asian food I would miss good Asian food immensely.
The times I've traveled there and the friends that I've had from there have had a better relationship with good food than many people I know from the states. I'm not saying that Americans only eat junk, or that we eat bad food, I'm just saying that American fruits and vegetables are designed to travel far but not taste so great and somehow we've forgotten what good produce tastes like and that there are seasons in which these things should be available. There are even informative and well written books on this subject like Animal, Vegetable, Miracle by Barbara Kingsolver or The Omnivore's Dilemma by Michael Pollen. My favorite example is strawberries (or really any berry) the one's I've come across in the grocery mart are huge, red, beautiful, dry and tragically bland when they should be honestly smaller sweet, tart, juicy bites of fruit perfection that I've come across in wild ones, European ones and occasionally a good patch from a farmers market (I blame the GMO's they don't go for flavor modifications they go for stoutness in crop life and shipping while visually appealing uniformity, idiots). I've even been in Louisiana who's self proclaimed state fruit is the strawberry during strawberry season it was shockingly so bad I only ate one. Anyone who knows me, knows I can put away at least a pound of strawberries in a sitting (but that's another story).. Alright, I've ranted enough the link is bellow. Enjoy!http://idsgn.org/posts/an-edible-color-palette/
Ewww... what do the gross canned peas look like WITHOUT the dye then? :P What was weird about the article was that they are telling you how bad the dyes are, but all the pictures of the colored food are so pretty. And I ate m&m's yesterday and now I am pretty sure I am going to get the cancer. :( I ate strawberries grown one street away from each other, one commercially grown on a farm and the other from a backyard garden and even the texture of them was so different, it was bizarre.
ReplyDeleteThere are many reasons to not eat canned food out there (tin canned): weird dyes to make the food look like food, plastic lining in the can that leaches into the food, excessive amounts of salt, flavor, a general lack of freshness and life in the food.. the list goes on..
ReplyDeleteI read the link. Thanks, it was interesting. Always wondered exactly what Yellow #5 was! Sure do like the Doritos though....dye die or no
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