10 Banned Toxic Foods You Need to Stop Eating in the US

Last Updated on January 7, 2021

If you often consume drinks, snacks, or almost any packaged food you get from your American grocery store, you may want to take a deep breath and sit down to read this.

America’s most common packaged foods contain chemicals which are too unhealthy that they have been banned in many other countries.

Most Americans assume that any food or dairy product that is FDA approved is perfectly safe to consume. Unfortunately, this is not true because they continue to allow some dangerous foods to be sold in the U.S. markets while other countries have been illegalizing them.

Obviously, these banned products do have damaging or even deadly effects on the human health.

imgix.netHere are the top 10 dangerous foods and ingredients that are banned in other countries while still allowed in the US:

10. Olestra aka Olean

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Procter and Gamble have made this cholesterol and calorie-free fat substitute to create fat-free snacks such as French fries and potato chips.

There have been many reports of serious intestinal reactions to these products including leaking bowels, cramps, and intense diarrhea.

Not only causes acute reactions but it also prevents the human body from absorbing necessary vitamins (A, E, D, and K), while the FDA requires that these vitamins must be added to all products containing Olean.

Olestra aka Olean is banned in both Canada and the UK.

9. Ractopamine in Meat

healthimpactnews.comRactopamine is a drug that was first used by livestock ranchers when they knew that it made mice grow much more muscles.

The use of this drug in cattle and pigs lessens the meat’s fat content.

Approximately, ractopamine is used in 30% of grain fed cattle and 45% of pigs. As for turkeys and chicken, the numbers are unknown.

The bad news is that up to 20% of ractopamine which is fed to animals remains in the meat after butchering.

Even worse, this drug is banned in over 160 European countries, as well as in China, Taiwan, and Russia.

8. Drinks with Flame Retardant Ingredients

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You probably have no idea that some popular sports beverages and citrus flavored sodas, as well as a popular soda called Mountain Dew, consist of BVO, brominated vegetable oil, which is a synthetic chemical.